Comparison

Wine Maps vs myWachau

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Wine Maps

Explore global wine regions with detailed visual maps. Search for specific areas, customize map views, and test your knowledge. Ideal for wine enthusiasts, educators, and commercial use with an optional distribution license.

Highlights
  • 130+ maps of wine regions across 25 countries
  • Search and zoom into specific wine regions
  • Customize map elements (labels, rivers, cities)
  • Print or export maps as images
  • Interactive quizzes for learning
  • Offline access to maps
  • Optional commercial distribution license
Features
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Wine Maps provides a handy visual reference, for the wine regions in twenty countries around the world. Its a great tool for anyone looking to learn more about the world of wine, and even better for those looking for maps to study from. It's perfect for those teaching others about wine, and Wine Maps provides a number of ways of exporting or printing maps. Wine Maps focuses exclusively on mapping the wine regions of the world. It offers one hundred and twenty two maps, defining the wine regions. It is NOT an encyclopaedia of wine, and does not give any textual definitions or comment. Wine Maps is a purely visual reference, which allows you to search for the location of a wine region. With the exception of the top wineries in Bordeaux, individual vineyards do not appear on the maps. There's just too many of them! Each map is one or two taps away from the main screen. Simply choose from the main wine region list, and you instantly have a map of that region. You can search for regions by name, and Wine Maps will neatly zoom into its location. The surrounding regions will be greyed out to highlight the selected region. Each map has the wine regions clearly presented, along with rivers, cities, and major towns.  You can adjust the major components for map. for example to hide the labels for wine regions. You can hide the rivers, or the towns and cities. On each map, controls are provided to show, grey out, or hide individual wine regions. For commercial users, who would like to make more extensive use of the maps, an in-app purchase has been added. This provides a licence to distribute maps, via websites, videos, presentations, and more. Wine Maps is also bundled with a companion app for your Apple TV. Allowing you to show off your wine knowledge, and TV simultaneously! Feature Summary: • Locate one of 1500+ wine regions in seconds • 130 Maps covering 25 countries • Accessible top down approach • Maps can be printed, or exported as images • Test yourself, to help with learning the world's wine regions • A licence for commercial distribution is available as in in-app purchase • Maps can be altered. For example, to hide labels, rivers, or towns and cities. • Individual wine regions can be hidden, or greyed out • Works offline • iPad, iPhone and Apple TV support • Currently on its 28th update. Wine Maps is actively developed (now with a version for the Mac desktop). What regions are included? - Overall World Map - Overall Europe Map - Central and Eastern Europe Map Old World - 17 Countries, and 62 Regions: - Austria - Bulgaria - Croatia - Czech Republic - France (with fifteen main subregions, and further sub-subregions. Eleven from Bordeaux, six from Burgundy, and Bergerac), - Georgia - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Italy (with nineteen subregions) - Moldova - Portugal - Romania - Spain (with ten subregions) - Slovenia - Slovakia - Switzerland New World - 9 Countries, and 40 Regions: - Argentina - Australia (with four subregions) - Brazil - Canada (with subregion Ontario) - Chile - Mexico - New Zealand (with two subregions) - South Africa (with the subregion Western Cape) - USA (with subregions of seventeen states, and fifteen subregions of California) Image Copyright All images generated using Wine Maps are issued under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License". https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ If you have purchased the Commercial Licence in-app purchase. All images generated are issued under the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License". https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ By purchasing Wine Maps, or the Commercial Licence in-app purchase; you agree to adhere to the terms of the licence, which is appropriate to your purchase. Your personal data (Name and Email) would only be collected in the event of you choosing to email the developer for support.

About

myWachau

Discover wineries, wine taverns, restaurants, and vineyards in the Wachau region. Buy wine directly from cellars, find open establishments, and identify vineyards in real-time. Plan your visit with background information and a digital vineyard map.

Highlights
  • Winery, wine tavern, and restaurant search
  • Real-time availability information
  • Background company and wine details
  • Route calculation to destinations
  • Digital vineyard map
  • Identify vineyards by location
Features
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myWachau Wachau wine and vineyard guide myWachau is your key to wineries, wine taverns, restaurants and vineyards in Wachau. Buying wine ex cellar, finding opened wine taverns or restaurants and identifying each vineyard by its name - everything in real time. With myWachau you are able to experience and discover the wine region Wachau in a particular easy way – indispensable for regular wine fans as well as for first time visitors. Useful for getting background information about the region and its winegrowers or for planning a visit of a winery, a wine tavern or restaurant. The first digital vineyard map shows you where your favorite wines come from. Never before has a visit at Austria’s best known wine growing region been so easy. Company map •Search for wineries, wine taverns, restaurants and wine shops, which can be visited without appointment •Search in real time or at a future point of time •Background information about each company •Information about the wines of a winery •Route calculation to your chosen winery Vineyard map •Displaying single vineyards •Displaying all vineyards of a winery •Displaying all vineyards of the Wachau on a satellite or a topographical map •Identifying a vineyards name through your own position in the Wachau •Searching for vineyards Use cases •You are currently in the Wachau and want to buy wines ex cellar. •You are searching for a specific winery and want to know when they will be available. •You are planning to visit a wine tavern or restaurant. •You are thinking about a visit to the Wachau and want to get information about the regions and its winegrowers. •You want to contact a winery to arrange an appointment. Questions, feedback or complaints? Write us an email at office@vinea-wachau.at

Screenshots

Wine Maps4 screens
myWachau4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wine Maps at 82% against myWachau's 33%. Wine Maps also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (109 vs 1). myWachau's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

myWachau is free to download; Wine Maps costs $0.99 up front. Wine Maps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. myWachau asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wine Maps holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine Maps has 109 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Wine Maps's written reviews are positive against 33% of myWachau's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, myWachau every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Wine Maps versus myWachau: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine MapsmyWachau
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (109 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews82.2% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings109 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#46 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.8 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB46 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperJonathan LordVinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus

Customer experience

Wine Maps

All ratings109 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral6.8%
Negative11.0%

myWachau

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wine Maps

One-time1
  • Commercial Copyright Licence$4.99
None

myWachau

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wine Maps free?
Wine Maps costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is myWachau free?
myWachau is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wine Maps or myWachau?
Wine Maps is rated higher. Wine Maps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 109 ratings, while myWachau averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wine Maps or myWachau have ads?
Neither Wine Maps nor myWachau shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine Maps or myWachau?
Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, and myWachau every 8 months. Most recently, Wine Maps was updated on October 18, 2026 and myWachau on October 14, 2026.

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