Wine vs Platelab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Scan wine labels
- Compare prices
- Find purchase locations
- Access critic scores
- View vintage information
- Rate and review wines
- Explore drink encyclopedia
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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
Platelab
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Following a recipe teaches you that recipe. It doesn't teach you to cook. The cooks you admire aren't recalling steps. They're making decisions — what belongs beside the lamb, where the acid goes, when to stop adding. That's the actual skill, it's learnable, and you can start on it tonight whether this is your fiftieth dinner or your fifth. Platelab teaches it the way it's really learned: by having you compose the plate yourself, one decision at a time, with the reasoning out in the open — until the instinct is yours and you don't need the app to find it. WHAT CHANGES You walk into the kitchen with an idea instead of a search. You cook things you've never made before, and they work. Your plates start looking composed rather than assembled. You stop rotating the same six dinners and don't miss them. You learn why a pairing works, so the next one is your own. Dinner suits everyone at your table without becoming a compromise. The week stops being seven separate problems. HOW IT WORKS Build a plate in six moves. Start with one good thing — a cut, a fish, a vegetable in its short season. Then compose outward: something to echo it, a vegetable with real presence, a sharp note to cut the richness, texture so the last bite is as good as the first, and a finish that ties it together. Every pairing tells you why. Behind the app is a canon built one affinity at a time — French and European foundations, wok cookery from East and Southeast Asia, Indian tempering, Persian, Levantine, Latin — where each combination earns its place through real precedent or the chemistry underneath it. Nothing is there to fill space. Balance is watched while you work. Acid where the dish has gone heavy. Fat where it does actual work. Salt, crunch, a finishing gesture. Take the plate anywhere you like; the structure comes with you. See the plate before you cook it. Ask for a photograph and your composition arrives the way it would at the pass — the placement, the sauce, the garnish, the space you left alone. Ask anything, mid-cook. Why the vinegar goes in last. What to do with the bones. How to make the same dish gentler for someone who won't eat heat. You get an answer from someone who has stood at a stove. Compose a whole week. Seven nights that go somewhere — varied in technique, honest about a Tuesday, and aware of what's in the pantry and what you'll owe the market. Set your table once. Say who eats with you and what is never welcome, and every plate after that quietly respects it. Elegance isn't complication. It's the three right things, put down with nerve. Start there. SUBSCRIPTION Platelab Pro unlocks the full app. New subscribers get a 1-week free trial, after which the subscription renews monthly at $9.99 USD. Prices may vary by region and are shown in the app before you purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Privacy Policy: https://food.rdews.com/legal/platelab-privacy Terms of Use: https://food.rdews.com/legal/platelab-terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Wine at #22 against Platelab's unranked. 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
Both are free to download. Wine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and Platelab sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wine ships an update every 9 days, Platelab every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wine | Platelab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (17K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #22 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 570 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Wine-Searcher Ltd | Ryan Dewsbury |
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
Platelab
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wine
- Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$10.991 Month
- Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$98.991 Year
Platelab
- Platelab Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Month









