Comparison

PintWise vs WhichCraft

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

Head to head
About

PintWise

Catalog craft beers you've tasted by taking photos, recording details like brewery and rating, and sharing with friends. Search your personal database to recall past favorites and avoid repeat disappointments.

Highlights
  • Catalog craft beers
  • Record tasting details
  • Take beer photos
  • Searchable beer database
  • Share ratings with friends
  • iCloud syncing
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Remember every beer worth remembering. PintWise is a personal catalog for the craft beers you've tasted — snap a photo, rate it, and never again stand in the beer aisle wondering if you liked the one with the cool label. This app grew out of sharing some great (and some not so great) beers over the years with friends and family. After giving and receiving tons of recommendations, it became impossible to remember them all — so PintWise was born. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Photograph each beer and log the name, brewery, style, price, and where you bought it • Rate in half-stars, mark whether you'd buy it again, and write tasting notes while it's fresh • Credit collaborating breweries on collab brews • Search your whole catalog in seconds, right there in the aisle • Share any beer as a beautiful card straight to your friends SEE YOUR TASTE TAKE SHAPE Statistics reveal your top styles, your favorite breweries, your average rating, and your highest-rated pour. At the end of the year, Your Year in Beer wraps it all into a recap worth sharing. YOURS, EVERYWHERE Your catalog syncs across your devices with iCloud, so replacing a phone never means losing a single beer. Export the whole thing — photos included — to a plain backup file any time. No lock-in. PintWise is free for your first 5 beers. Unlimited beers, backup restore, and everything above are part of PintWise Pro. Built by one person, on nights and weekends, for people who take their beer seriously and themselves less so. Cheers. Privacy Policy: https://www.zeynatech.com/pintwise/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

WhichCraft

Easily track the beers you've tried with a simple logging system and extensive catalog. Build a personal collection, tag tasting locations, and view your history on a map. Designed for speed and privacy, it focuses solely on your brewlist without ads or social features.

Highlights
  • Fast beer search
  • Personal brewlist creation
  • Simple tasting logs (like/dislike)
  • Location tagging for breweries/bars
  • Map view of tasting history
  • Private iCloud syncing
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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WhichCraft is the fastest way to track the beers you drink. No ads, no social features, no noise—just you and your brewlist. WHAT YOU GET • Fast Search Find any beer from a comprehensive catalog of hundreds of thousands of brews worldwide. • Your Brewlist Every tasting gets saved to your personal collection. Filter by liked, disliked, or browse everything you've tried. Sort by date, name, or rating—whatever makes sense to you. • Log Tastings Thumbs up or down. Add notes. That's it. We don't make you fill out a form or rate things on a 10-point scale. You tried a beer. You liked it or you didn't. Move on. • Location Tagging Add the brewery, bar, or couch where you tried a beer. It suggests where you are, so most of the time you don't have to type anything. • Your Places Every spot you've had a beer, as a list or a map. Rename them, give them an icon, merge the duplicates, archive the ones you're done with. Tap any place to see everything you've drunk there. • Private by Design Your tastings sync via iCloud. They're yours. We don't see them, we don't sell them, and we can't lose them in a data breach. Your brewlist lives in your iCloud account, not on some company's server. • Actually Fast Built for iPhone. No web wrappers, no lag, no waiting for things to load. Open the app, search, log, done. • No Ads, Ever We're not selling your attention to advertisers. You paid for the app (or you will). That's the business model. Clean and simple. WHY WHICHCRAFT? Because you shouldn't need a social network to remember which IPA you liked. You shouldn't have to scroll past ads to see your own data. And you definitely shouldn't trust a startup with your beer preferences when they're just going to get acquired and shut down in three years. WhichCraft is simple, fast, and private. It does one thing well: helps you remember the beers you've tried so you can find them again or avoid them next time. Download it. Log a few tastings. See if you like it. If you don't, we're not going to send you push notifications begging you to come back. We're not that kind of app. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 18 or later • iCloud account (for syncing across devices) SUPPORT Questions? Issues? Email us at support@whichcraft.beer We actually read our email.

Screenshots

PintWise4 screens
WhichCraft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WhichCraft at none against PintWise's 2. WhichCraft also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. PintWise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. WhichCraft asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PintWise against 5.0 for WhichCraft. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PintWise ships an update every 2 weeks, WhichCraft every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
PintWise versus WhichCraft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPintWiseWhichCraft
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB5 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperZeyna Technologies, LLCEric Cecchi

Customer experience

PintWise

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WhichCraft

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

PintWise

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$1.001 Month
  • Annual Subscription$10.001 Year
None

WhichCraft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PintWise free?
PintWise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WhichCraft free?
WhichCraft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PintWise or WhichCraft?
PintWise and WhichCraft are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do PintWise or WhichCraft have ads?
Neither PintWise nor WhichCraft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PintWise or WhichCraft?
PintWise ships an update every 2 weeks, and WhichCraft every 3 weeks. Most recently, PintWise was updated on September 26, 2026 and WhichCraft on October 1, 2026.

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