Comparison

Wine vs Baristi App

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

Baristi App

Discover premium coffees and order ahead from local cafes. This app provides a universal marketplace for coffee lovers to find their perfect brew with drink-specific ratings and timed mobile orders.

Highlights
  • Order-ahead functionality
  • Discover premium coffees
  • Drink-specific ratings
  • Timed mobile orders
  • Universal cafe marketplace
Features
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We connect coffee lovers with premium coffees while enabling seamless order-ahead functionality. With uniquely timed mobile orders and precise drink-specific ratings, users can discover and enjoy their perfect brew, tailored to their taste. Providing a free universal marketplace for cafes, Baristi offers equal exposure with transparent, drink-specific ratings. The app lists all cafes, whether they participate or not, making it effortless for users to find the best coffee nearby, and, for participating cafes, order-ahead functionality so waiting in line is a thing of the past.

Screenshots

Wine4 screens
Baristi App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Baristi App at none against Wine's 2. Wine's advantage is ratings volume (17K vs 7) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Wine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month. Baristi App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Wine against 4.7 for Baristi App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine has 17K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Wine's written reviews are positive against 71% of Baristi App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine ships an update every 9 days, Baristi App monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Wine versus Baristi App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWineBaristi App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings) — better4.7 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings17K — better7
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#22 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB80 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWine-Searcher LtdShack In The Back Industries, Inc.

Customer experience

Wine

All ratings17,165 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews493 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative19.1%

Baristi App

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

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

Baristi App

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
None

Baristi App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wine free?
Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Baristi App free?
Baristi App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wine or Baristi App?
Wine is rated higher. Wine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while Baristi App averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Wine or Baristi App have ads?
Neither Wine nor Baristi App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine or Baristi App?
Wine ships an update every 9 days, and Baristi App monthly. Most recently, Wine was updated on November 6, 2026 and Baristi App on October 30, 2026.

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