Spruce Barbers vs BourbonProject
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spruce Barbers
Easily book and pay for haircuts and shaves with just a few taps. Check real-time availability, reserve your preferred time slot, and securely pay with your card on file, eliminating the need for cash.
- Book haircuts and shaves
- Check service availability
- Reserve time slots
- Secure card payments
- Add tips
- Cashless transactions
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Welcome to Spruce Barbershop Our app lets you: - Book and pay for a haircut or shave in a few taps. - Check availability and reserve a time slot that fits your schedule. - Use your card on file to quickly and securely pay for your service and tip so you never need cash on hand. Make your next appointment with Spruce Barbershop today!
BourbonProject
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Know every bottle on your shelf — and the one you haven't found yet. Bourbon Project is the catalog, collection tracker, and hunting partner built for people who actually chase allocated bottles instead of just drinking whatever's in reach. Catalog 1,400+ expressions Search by name or filter by what you're after — high proof, wheated, rye-forward, or anything carrying a real age statement. Every entry has proof, age, distillery, region, typical retail price, and a label photo, plus 65 distilleries and 280 brand families with founding dates and parent companies behind them. Your shelf, properly kept Sealed, open, wishlist, and favorites. Log what you paid, when you bought it, and your own notes, with custom fields for whatever you track that we didn't think of. Scan the bottle Point the camera at a barcode to add a bottle in a second. No barcode on the back bar? Scan the label instead. Never miss an allocated bottle at MSRP This is the reason to keep the app open. When another member finds a bottle like Weller, Blanton's, E.H. Taylor, Stagg, or Pappy sitting at retail price, you get a push with the store, the price, a photo of the shelf, and a route to the door — while it's still there, not after the group chat finds out. A ZIP code is all we ever ask for; no member ever sees another member's location, and a bottle only gets flagged once a photo backs it up. Watch your collection value itself Every price the community reports goes into a dated ledger instead of overwriting the last figure, so your collection value is a real chart over time, not a single guess. See cost basis and return per bottle, your top movers, and export the whole collection as a spreadsheet or a dated valuation for insurance. Cocktails worth the pour Full recipes across the whiskey family with real measures and method, for the bottle that turned out to be a mixer rather than a sipper. Talk to people who know the difference Start a thread, post a photo of the pour, and follow the replies. Get notified on replies, mentions, and likes, or turn all of it off. Every post can be reported and every member can be blocked, and both take effect immediately. Bourbon news Releases, allocations, and distillery news pulled from the trade press, credited and linked back to the source. Bourbon Project is free to use, and Pro features — including MSRP find alerts — are unlocked for everyone during our launch period. No credit card required to get started. Whether you're cataloging a single shelf or chasing the next allocated release before it's gone, Bourbon Project is built to keep up.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BourbonProject at every 2 weeks against Spruce Barbers's every 2 months. Spruce Barbers's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spruce Barbers ships an update every 2 months, BourbonProject every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spruce Barbers | BourbonProject |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SPRUCE BARBER SHOP | Brian Barkwell |
In-app purchases
Spruce Barbers
No in-app purchases
BourbonProject
No in-app purchases
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