PairingPro vs Sommate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PairingPro
This app uses AI to suggest wine pairings for your food or personal taste, acting as a virtual sommelier. Discover new wines and find your favorites with an easy-to-use interface.
- AI-powered wine recommendations
- Food and personal preference matching
- Virtual sommelier functionality
- Discover new wine styles
- Intuitive option path
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Leveraging patented AI technology that works like a virtual sommelier, PairingPro® matches wine styles to your food or personal preferences quickly and with minimal wine knowledge required by the user. You can quickly discover new pairings that will delight you and your dinner guests or find the wine types that you're most likely to enjoy by following a simple and intuitive option path.
Sommate
Discover, pair, and learn about wine with your pocket sommelier. Scan wine labels to get detailed information, get personalized food pairing suggestions from menus, and build a taste profile to receive curated bottle recommendations.
- Scan wine labels for instant info
- Personalized food and wine pairings
- Build a detailed wine taste profile
- Digital wine locker and journal
- Curated bottle recommendations
- AI sommelier chat
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Sommate is your personal sommelier. Point it at any wine list, say what you're eating, and get three picks with the reason behind each, drawn only from the bottles in front of you. Rate what you drink, and every pick gets closer to your taste. NOW AT THE TABLE At partner restaurants, scan the Sommate code on your menu. No photo, no typing. Say what you're ordering and how you like your wine, and Sommate reads the whole list, every bottle the room actually pours, and hands you three picks: its pick for the dish, one that fits your taste, and one that stretches it. Unlimited, and always free at the table. ANY WINE LIST, ANYWHERE No code on the table? Take a photo of the list, describe what you or the table is ordering, and get three recommendations with plain-language pairing notes. Restaurant menus, wine bar lists, the card at a tasting. RATE AND REMEMBER Found a wine you love? Snap the label to save it to your Wine Locker with your photo, score and notes. Rate tannin, body, sweetness and finish, and your recommendations sharpen with every bottle. YOUR WINE DNA Sommate learns your palate over time. Wine DNA shows your taste tendencies in plain words: bold reds or crisp whites, full body or light, bone dry or a touch of sweetness. The app adapts to you. ASK A SOMMELIER Regions, grapes, vintages, what to bring to dinner. Chat with your sommelier whenever a question comes up. FEATURES • Pairings at partner restaurants, from the list they pour, unlimited and free • Wine pairing from a photo of any wine list • Wine label scanning with automatic recognition • Wine Locker to track every bottle you've rated • Wine DNA taste profile that evolves with you • Wine pages with producer history, grape, region and serving notes • Personalized bottle suggestions, with links to shop • A sommelier to chat with, any time • 7 free label and list scans every month Sommate scores every wine on a list against your food and your personal taste profile. No more guessing, no more overpaying for wines you won't enjoy. Perfect for date nights, business dinners, or any time you want to order with confidence. RUN A RESTAURANT? Put a sommelier on every table. Upload your wine list, print your code, and every guest gets pairings drawn only from the bottles you pour. Details at sommate.ai/restaurants.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Sommate at 7 against PairingPro's 1. PairingPro's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PairingPro against 5.0 for Sommate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sommate has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | PairingPro | Sommate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Interactive Menu Technologies | Matthew Meier |
Customer experience
PairingPro
Sommate
In-app purchases
PairingPro
No in-app purchases
Sommate
No in-app purchases







