Comparison

Simple Wine Manager vs WineLog

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

Head to head
About

Simple Wine Manager

Easily manage your wine collection with AI-assisted input, quick additions, and customizable views. Generate wine menus for guests and back up your data. Find specific bottles with powerful search and filtering tools.

Highlights
  • AI-assisted wine entry
  • Quick add and copy wines
  • Storage location management
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Customizable sorting
  • Generate wine menus
  • Import/export data
Features
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Wine Bottle Management must be simple! - Consume wines with a swipe - Add wines to your cellar quickly with as much information as you wish - also with the help of AI! - Copy wines to quickly add new vintages or other types of wines from the same producer. Add your storage locations. - Search & Filter: Quickly find specific wines, producers, vintages or wines from certain regions in your collection - Sort your views as you like and store different sort orders - Print: Generate beautiful wine menus from all or a selection of your wines to present to guests and friends - Data Management: Import/export your wine data for easy sharing or backup - Check the history and statistics of your wine collection - Works best on iPhone, but also does on iPad

About

WineLog

This app helps you privately track wines you've enjoyed and discover new ones. Easily log bottles, add them to a wishlist, and find them later by name, producer, or region. It offers simple descriptions and food pairings for each wine.

Highlights
  • Log wines tasted
  • Create a wine wishlist
  • Search by name, producer, region
  • Scan bottle labels
  • View wine descriptions and food pairings
  • Share wine discoveries
Features
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You had a glass you loved. Months later you're scrolling backward through your camera roll, past birthdays, screenshots, receipts, hunting for that one blurry photo of the label. WineLog is the home for every wine you've tried, and every one you still want to. It's a personal wine journal for people still figuring out what they like. No ratings to compare, no tasting notes to perform. Just a private space to remember what you drank, save what's next, and slowly learn your own taste. Snap a photo of the bottle, note where you were and who you shared it with, and mark the ones worth remembering. Then find any of them again in seconds by name, producer, or region. Spot something interesting at the shop or on a restaurant list? Scan the label or search by name and add it straight to your Wishlist, then filter by wine, region, or price when you're ready to buy. When you finally open that bottle, one tap moves it from Wishlist to log. Not sure what you're looking at? Every wine comes with a short, plain-English description and food pairings that actually make sense. Bottles you add by search get an AI description tailored to that exact wine. Browse a curated library organized by color and take in the whole world of wine at a glance. Found a bottle worth telling someone about? Share any wine from your logs or wishlist with a tap. Your friend opens the link, sees the wine and the wine's story, and can save it to their own WineLog with a tap. No account, no social feed, no sommelier jargon. Just you and your palate.

Screenshots

Simple Wine Manager4 screens
WineLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: WineLog at 15.1 against Simple Wine Manager's 18.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Wine Manager against 5.0 for WineLog. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Wine Manager ships an update every 10 days, WineLog every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Simple Wine Manager versus WineLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Wine ManagerWineLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB48 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperDieter LempenKate Lee

Customer experience

Simple Wine Manager

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WineLog

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Wine Manager

No in-app purchases

None

WineLog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Wine Manager free?
Simple Wine Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WineLog free?
WineLog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Simple Wine Manager or WineLog?
Simple Wine Manager and WineLog are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Simple Wine Manager or WineLog have ads?
Neither Simple Wine Manager nor WineLog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Simple Wine Manager or WineLog?
Simple Wine Manager ships an update every 10 days, and WineLog every 2 weeks. Most recently, Simple Wine Manager was updated on October 7, 2026 and WineLog on October 8, 2026.

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