Comparison

When Wine Tastes Best vs glugluglug

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

Head to head
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).

About

glugluglug

Features
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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.

Screenshots

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glugluglug4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. When Wine Tastes Best sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. glugluglug asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

When Wine Tastes Best ships an update every 10 months, glugluglug every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
When Wine Tastes Best versus glugluglug: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhen Wine Tastes Bestglugluglug
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (31 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings31 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB2 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperFloris BooksKen Grønnbeck

In-app purchases

2 purchases

When Wine Tastes Best

One-time2
  • WWTB data 2026$0.99
  • WWTB data 2027$5.99
None

glugluglug

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is When Wine Tastes Best free?
When Wine Tastes Best is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is glugluglug free?
glugluglug is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do When Wine Tastes Best or glugluglug have ads?
Neither When Wine Tastes Best nor glugluglug shows ads.
Which is updated more often, When Wine Tastes Best or glugluglug?
When Wine Tastes Best ships an update every 10 months, and glugluglug every 3 days. Most recently, When Wine Tastes Best was updated on November 6, 2026 and glugluglug on November 6, 2026.

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