Comparison

Wine vs Parcelles

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

Parcelles

Explore Champagne's vineyards with detailed data on over 8,000 parcels. Discover terroir, climate history, and individual champagnes. Track your tastings and understand the land behind every bottle.

Highlights
  • Interactive map of Champagne region
  • Detailed vineyard parcel data
  • Comprehensive champagne catalogue
  • Tasting notes and rating system
  • Terroir analysis (soil, altitude, aspect)
  • Climate data and season tracking
  • Vineyard comparison and 'twins'
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Champagne, decoded. Parcelles is a detailed, data-driven explorer of Champagne: its 8,000+ vineyard parcels and the champagnes made from them. From the chalk beneath the vines to the bottle in your hand, Parcelles brings it all together in one beautiful app, on iPhone and iPad. EXPLORE THE REGION Browse the entire Champagne wine region on a detailed interactive map. Tap any parcel to see its name, village, and classification instantly. Search across every vineyard, village, producer, and champagne. On iPad, the map and a floating detail panel sit side by side. EVERY CHAMPAGNE Explore the whole champagne catalogue of the region, from the grandes maisons to the smallest growers. Browse, search, and filter by cru, style, dosage, and grape variety to reach exactly the bottle you have in mind. INSIDE EVERY BOTTLE Open each bottle up. See the blend grape by grape, trace any cuvee back to the exact parcels it draws from, and read a portrait of the wine. Producer profiles connect every house to the land behind it. SAVED, PINNED, MEASURED Keep vineyards, producers, and champagnes on your account, each with a note and in lists of your own. Drop a pin with a note anywhere on the map, and measure a row, a parcel, or the elevation along a line. KNOW YOUR TERROIR Every parcel analyzed with altitude, slope, aspect, sun exposure, soil composition, and rankings against all of Champagne. Understand what makes each vineyard unique. WHAT LIES BENEATH Geology overlays, contour lines, and hillshade reveal the land that shapes each vineyard. The vineyard diorama builds any parcel as a lit 3D model with its surroundings, and a sun you can move through the day and the year. Elevation profiles show the surface geology and the rock layers below, reconstructed from real boreholes. DECADES OF CLIMATE Growing degree days, rainfall, frost, and sunshine decade by decade since 1950. See how climate has shaped the vines, the best years and the worst, all-time records, village by village. Plus a Climate Outlook with CMIP6 projections through 2040. SEASON TRACKER Follow the growing season day by day. Growing degree days, a 3-day forecast, frost warnings, vintage archetype forecasts, and harvest predictions, village by village, updated daily. AROUND ME Visiting Champagne? Discover which vineyards surround you, sorted by distance. Stand on the terroir and read it from your phone. COMPARE AND FIND TWINS Compare up to 10 vineyards side by side, and find their terroir twins: vineyards that share similar soil, altitude, and exposure anywhere in Champagne. PRICING Free: the interactive map, every parcel with names, villages, and classifications, search and browse across the whole champagne catalogue, and the Climate Outlook with CMIP6 projections through 2040. No account needed. Membership: everything else, including full terroir data, geology, 3D terrain and the vineyard diorama, elevation profiles, vintage ratings and Vintage Scores since 1950, Season Tracker, Terroir Twins, the blend and parcel tracing for every cuvee, Saved, map pins, and measurements, 10-vineyard comparisons, and PDF and Excel exports. CHF 9.90/month or CHF 79/year, with a 7-day free trial. WHY PARCELLES Champagne has over 8,000 vineyard parcels, each shaped by millions of years of geology, unique microclimates, and centuries of tradition. This knowledge has always been scattered across archives, academic papers, and local memory. Parcelles brings it together, so anyone curious about Champagne can understand what makes each vineyard unique. The map and the champagne catalogue stay free for everyone. A membership unlocks everything else, with a 7-day free trial, monthly or annual, cancel anytime. Terms of Use: https://parcelles.app/terms

Screenshots

Wine4 screens
Parcelles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Wine at 17K against Parcelles's 2. Wine also leads on chart position (#25 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). Parcelles's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 76%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, update cadence, 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 Parcelles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Parcelles 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Wine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Parcelles's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Wine versus Parcelles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWineParcelles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#25 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB62 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWine-Searcher LtdRoman Blum

Customer experience

Wine

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

Parcelles

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Parcelles

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
2 purchases

Parcelles

Subscriptions2
  • Parcelles Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Parcelles Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Wine free?
Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Parcelles free?
Parcelles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wine or Parcelles?
Parcelles is rated higher. Wine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while Parcelles averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Wine or Parcelles have ads?
Neither Wine nor Parcelles shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine or Parcelles?
Wine ships an update every 9 days, and Parcelles every 9 days. Most recently, Wine was updated on October 28, 2026 and Parcelles on October 28, 2026.

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