Comparison

Wine Maps vs When Wine Tastes Best

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
Currently charting
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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

When Wine Tastes Best

Discover the optimal days to open and enjoy your wine with this biodynamic calendar. It reveals the best days for wine, drawing on decades of research. Customize for your time zone and choose your preferred time format.

Highlights
  • Best days to open wine
  • Customizable time zones
  • 12/24 hour time format
  • Fruit, flower, root, leaf days
  • Generally unfavorable days
Features
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A biodynamic calendar for wine drinkers • Get the best from your bottle of wine: the best days to open your good wine revealed • Top UK grocery chains use this calendar to choose their critics wine tastings days • Customise for any global time zone, and choose 12-hour or 24-hour time • Based on 50 years of research by biodynamic expert Maria Thun, discover which days are good (fruit and flower days), and which are less good (root and leaf days), as well as Maria Thun’s unique ‘generally unfavourable’ days (not included in other lunar calendars). This free version is for the current day and days past. For future days, purchase the annual data (in-app purchase).

Screenshots

Wine Maps4 screens
When Wine Tastes Best1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wine Maps at 82% against When Wine Tastes Best's 29%. Wine Maps also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.2) and chart position (#13 vs unranked). When Wine Tastes Best's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

When Wine Tastes Best is free to download; Wine Maps costs $0.99 up front. Wine Maps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and When Wine Tastes Best sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wine Maps holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 109 and 31 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Wine Maps's written reviews are positive against 29% of When Wine Tastes Best's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, When Wine Tastes Best every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Wine Maps versus When Wine Tastes Best: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine MapsWhen Wine Tastes Best
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (109 ratings) — better3.2 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews82.1% of reviews — better29.0% of reviews
Number of ratings109 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#13 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.8 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB28 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperJonathan LordFloris Books

Customer experience

Wine Maps

All ratings109 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative11.1%

When Wine Tastes Best

All ratings31 ratings
Positive45.2%
Neutral19.4%
Negative35.5%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive29.0%
Neutral12.9%
Negative58.1%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wine Maps

One-time1
  • Commercial Copyright Licence$4.99
5 purchases

When Wine Tastes Best

One-time5
  • WWTB data 2023$0.99
  • WWTB data 2026$0.99
  • WWTB data 2025$0.99
Show 2 more
  • WWTB data 2024$0.99
  • WWTB data 2027$5.99

Questions

Is Wine Maps free?
Wine Maps costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is When Wine Tastes Best free?
When Wine Tastes Best is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wine Maps or When Wine Tastes Best?
Wine Maps is rated higher. Wine Maps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 109 ratings, while When Wine Tastes Best averages 3.2 from 31 ratings.
Do Wine Maps or When Wine Tastes Best have ads?
Neither Wine Maps nor When Wine Tastes Best shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine Maps or When Wine Tastes Best?
Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, and When Wine Tastes Best every 10 months. Most recently, Wine Maps was updated on September 22, 2026 and When Wine Tastes Best on September 23, 2026.

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