Comparison

Wines vs WineFolio Journal

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

Head to head
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/

About

WineFolio Journal

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WineFolio Journal is a personal wine journal for iPhone. Save wines you have tasted, manage your cellar, build a wishlist, and keep structured tasting notes in one clean app. WineFolio Journal is designed for people who want a private, elegant and practical way to remember bottles, producers, vintages, regions and personal impressions. Features: • Save wines with producer, vintage, region and personal notes • Record structured tastings • Organize your personal cellar • Build a wishlist of bottles to try • Keep your data locally on your device • Use the app without creating an account WineFolio Journal 1.0 works locally on your device. No account is required.

Screenshots

Wines4 screens
WineFolio Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WineFolio Journal at none against Wines's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Wines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WineFolio Journal asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wines ships an update every 3 weeks, WineFolio Journal every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Wines versus WineFolio Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWinesWineFolio Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating+1717+
DeveloperDevart B.V.Andre Matthias Craffonara

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wines

One-time1
  • Full app$4.99
None

WineFolio Journal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wines free?
Wines is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WineFolio Journal free?
WineFolio Journal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wines or WineFolio Journal have ads?
Neither Wines nor WineFolio Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wines or WineFolio Journal?
Wines ships an update every 3 weeks, and WineFolio Journal every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wines was updated on October 8, 2026 and WineFolio Journal on October 14, 2026.

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