Comparison

Wine vs Wines

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

Head to head
About

Wine

This app helps you find, compare, and buy wines, beers, and spirits globally. Scan labels or search by name to access pricing, critic scores, and purchase locations. Discover new drinks and expand your knowledge with its extensive encyclopedia.

Highlights
  • Scan wine labels
  • Compare prices
  • Find purchase locations
  • Access critic scores
  • View vintage information
  • Rate and review wines
  • Explore drink encyclopedia
Features
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Find, compare and buy wines using the world’s #1 wine resource. The Wine-Searcher app is a genius shortcut to your favorite wines, beers and spirits – wherever you are on earth. Just scan the label and find a wealth of info on 8 million wine offers from 55,000 merchants. With the Wine-Searcher app, you can look up a wine to find out prices, critic scores, grape and region information, available vintages, and most importantly, where to buy. You can even rate and review your own favorites, and share them with the community. Looking to compare prices for the 2005 Mouton Rothschild? Or wanting to get information on a rare Cognac, bourbon or single malt Scotch whisky? Maybe you’re just interested in the best vintages for your favorite vineyards and wineries. Search quickly and easily Use our Label Scanner tool to scan the wine, beer or whisky in front of you, or just type in the name of a product you want to learn more about. Find out about grape varieties, producers and regions, access pricing information across vintages, and even see how critics have scored it.
 Ratings: Remember the memorable With the Wine-Searcher app, you can always buy a five star wine from a palate you trust – your own. Rate and review wines you've been drinking, and see what others have been enjoying. You can even save wines you haven't tried yet for later.
 Locate stores near you
Find out what wine stores are closest to you, and see what wines are the best value at your local wine merchant. Buy wines online through the merchant’s site, or get in touch with a store directly through the app.
 Expand your wine knowledge Access Wine-Searcher’s exhaustive encyclopedia covering producers, wine regions, appellations and grape varieties – from the ubiquitous to the obscure.
 Broaden your horizons The Wine-Searcher app is so much more than that: find and compare prices of some of the world’s best Scotch whisky, bourbon, Cognac, gin, rum, tequila, and even beer. 
“Thanks to Wine-Searcher, the most successful, and seriously useful, price comparison website, everyone should now be paying the right price for the wines they buy.” – Jancis Robinson MW
 “There is no better tool than Wine-Searcher. This web site offers the world’s most comprehensive database of wines available for sale online.” – Alder Yarrow, Vinography 
“Whether you’re looking for something as ubiquitous as Mouton Cadet Bordeaux or something as rare as a Riesling TBA from Egon Müller in Germany, Wine-Searcher will point you to the right place and show you the prices.” – The New York Times Wine-Searcher is free to use. You can purchase a subscription to Wine-Searcher PRO through an In-App Purchase. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your Apple account. Your subscription will renew automatically, unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel the subscription at any time. You can manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://www.wine-searcher.com/policies.lml Terms of use: https://www.wine-searcher.com/user-terms.lml

About

Wines

Easily log and retrieve your wine collection with smart suggestions and photo recognition. Organize your cellar, track tasting notes, and discover new wines with this private and sophisticated app.

Highlights
  • Autofill wine details from label photos
  • Smart suggestions for wine entry
  • Add tasting notes
  • Search and filter by multiple wine details
  • Track bottle count and cellar inventory
  • Export and import wine data
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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Wines lets you add and retrieve wines and what you thought about them simple and fast. Take a picture of the wine label and Wines will enter its details. In addition Wines gives suggestions from its database of 1500+ wine regions and 900+ varietals so that you can enter a new wine within seconds. ADD AND RETRIEVE • Autofills wine details, based on photo’s from your wine labels. • Smart suggestions. • Add notes. • Search supports multiple keywords. • Store and sort by Wine details: name, vintage, varietal, country, region, producer, bottles, rating, points, best before/after, shop, price, date added. • Filter by favourites, bottles in cellar and type. RESPECTS PRIVACY • The Wines app analyses your label on your device, without sending it to an external 3rd party. • The suggestions come from a database that is stored on your device. DISCOVER • Search directly with your preferred Search Engine (Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Google, Yahoo). SHARE • Select and share multiple wines. • Import .wib (V1) and .wsf (V2) wine files directly into the app. • Export to CSV file. SIMPLE AND SOPHISTICATED • Counts your bottles. • Edit amount of bottles. • Shows front and back wine labels. • Two color themes: burgundy and vine. • Easily backup all wines. • iCloud syncing. • Your wines stay on iCloud even if you delete or reinstall the app. • Universal, works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Macs. • Supports Dark Mode and Accessibility sizes. Try the app for free with a limited number of wines and options, so you can see how easy it works. No subscriptions, you buy full functionality once. Privacy Policy: https://www.devart.nl/wines/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Wine4 screens
Wines4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Wine at 17K against Wines's 5. Wine also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 60%) and chart position (#23 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Wine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and Wines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wines holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine has 17K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Wine's written reviews are positive against 60% of Wines's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine ships an update every 9 days, Wines every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Wine versus Wines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWineWines
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings17K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#23 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB6 MB
Age rating17++17
DeveloperWine-Searcher LtdDevart B.V.

Customer experience

Wine

All ratings17,145 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews493 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative19.1%

Wines

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and requests

Wine

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Saved wines not syncing properly
  • Landscape mode not working on iPad

Requested features

4 requests
  • Wish list feature for wines to buy
  • Improved label scanning and recognition
  • Ability to save and rate tasted wines
  • More integration with wine critic reviews

Wines

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wine

Subscriptions2
  • Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$10.991 Month
  • Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$98.991 Year
1 purchases

Wines

One-time1
  • Full app$4.99

Questions

Is Wine free?
Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wines free?
Wines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wine or Wines?
Wines is rated higher. Wine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while Wines averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Wine or Wines have ads?
Neither Wine nor Wines shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine or Wines?
Wine ships an update every 9 days, and Wines every 3 weeks. Most recently, Wine was updated on October 28, 2026 and Wines on October 24, 2026.

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