When Wine Tastes Best vs glugluglug
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Best days to open wine
- Customizable time zones
- 12/24 hour time format
- Fruit, flower, root, leaf days
- Generally unfavorable days
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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).
glugluglug
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glugluglug is a wine cellar you can keep with your friends. Free, and it stays on your phone: make a place for bottles — a wine fridge, a shelf, a box in the hallway — and put wine in it. See everything you have at a glance, drink one, and watch the rack empty. No account, no sign-up, no nagging. THE NOTEBOOK Not every bottle goes in the cellar. Some you drink at a bar and want to remember. Write it down: give it a verdict from "nope" to "again!!", then pick what it looked, smelled and tasted like from a proper tasting vocabulary — or just say "went great with the pizza" and move on. Over time, the notebook works out what you actually go for. EVERY BOTTLE, FINDABLE One searchable list across every place you keep wine. Producer, grape, region, vintage — find the thing you know you have somewhere. FRIENDS, FREE An account costs nothing and adds friends, so someone can share a bottle with you the day they hear about this. What they share turns up in your app straight away. GLUG PLUS Sharing back, and everything that needs a server, is the subscription: • Sharing — share one bottle out of a case with a friend, or the whole case, and the count stays right without a spreadsheet or an awkward conversation • Shared places — the fridge you keep with the person you live with, visible to you both • Sync — your cellar on every phone, backed up • The label scanner — point the camera at a bottle, or pick a photo you already took, and get the wine Free keeps working. Your cellar just stays on this phone. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No adverts. No analytics. No scores out of 100 from someone who isn't you. Your cellar is yours, and you can export it as a spreadsheet whenever you like. GLUG PLUS, THE SUBSCRIPTION glug plus is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. It renews each month unless you switch it off at least 24 hours before the month is up, and you can cancel any time in your App Store settings. The free app keeps working either way. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our service terms: https://glugluglug.com/terms Privacy policy: https://glugluglug.com/privacy np.lol — small apps, made with care.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: glugluglug at none against When Wine Tastes Best's 2. glugluglug also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 months). When Wine Tastes Best's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. When Wine Tastes Best sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. glugluglug asks for nothing beyond the download.
When Wine Tastes Best ships an update every 10 months, glugluglug every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | When Wine Tastes Best | glugluglug |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 29.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Floris Books | Ken Grønnbeck |
In-app purchases
When Wine Tastes Best
- WWTB data 2026$0.99
- WWTB data 2027$5.99
glugluglug
No in-app purchases
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