Comparison

bottld vs Vinory

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

Head to head
About

bottld

This app acts as your personal wine guide, helping you discover wines you'll love without the jargon. Simply scan bottles or menus to get personalized recommendations based on your taste preferences. It remembers your past ratings to refine future suggestions.

Highlights
  • Personalized wine recommendations
  • Scan wine bottles and menus
  • Taste-based matching
  • Simple, plain English descriptions
  • Save and rate past scans
  • Offline data storage
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Photograph any wine shelf or restaurant menu. bottld picks the top bottles for your taste and tells you why, in plain English. Finding the right wine shouldn’t feel like passing a test. bottld is your personal wine guide, built for people who enjoy wine but don’t want to study it. bottld is for you if: You feel lost staring at a wall of grocery store bottles You want to order confidently at a restaurant You always forget which wines you actually liked You just want a simple answer to: “What should I buy?” One photo. Your top matches. Grocery store, wine shop, or restaurant wine list: bottld reads the labels and ranks your top matches based on your taste, not critic scores, not crowd ratings. That highly rated wine everyone loves? Maybe you can’t stand it. bottld recommends wines based on what YOU enjoy, not what works for everyone else. Plain English. No wine-speak. bottld tells you what a bottle actually tastes like and exactly why it matches your profile, in language you can understand and act on. Never lose a great find. Your last 30 days of store and restaurant scans are saved automatically on your device. Go back to any recommendation, rate wines you tried, and share your favorites with friends, all from the History tab. Your data stays yours. No account. No username. No cloud sync. Everything bottld knows about your taste lives on your device and nowhere else. Gets smarter with every sip. Rate wines you’ve tried on a simple 5-star scale. The more you rate, the sharper your recommendations get, at the store, at a restaurant, or anywhere in between. Know your palate at a glance. Som’s Notes turns your ratings into a visual taste profile: what you love, what to avoid, and what you haven’t tried yet. Show it to a clerk or sommelier and they’ll know right where to start. Find it in the My Wines tab. Free to download with 10 free scans. Start by rating wines you’ve already tried, and let bottld do the rest.

About

Vinory

Features
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Don't let the bottle you just drank fade into memory. Vinory is for people who take tasting notes seriously. ■ The only input is a photo of the label Photograph the front and the back, and the producer, country, appellation, vintage and grape variety are read off the label into a draft note. You only correct what you disagree with. The reading is done by Apple Intelligence — your photos are never sent to a third-party analysis service. ■ Build the vocabulary by tapping Appearance, aroma, palate and overall evaluation are each written by picking from a structured set of tasting terms. The terms follow the J.S.A. Wine Expert / Sommelier examination sheets, so the app doubles as study material. Red, white, rosé and sparkling are covered, along with drinks that aren't wine. ■ Photos and folders make it findable Attach up to three photos per bottle. Sort notes into folders such as "Home Cellar" or "Dining Out" and they stay one tap away. ■ On iPhone and on iPad Everything syncs through iCloud. On iPad the app splits into two panes so folders and notes sit side by side. ■ Pricing The first ten notes are free. Saving more than that requires Vinory Premium. About Vinory Premium - Monthly and yearly plans are available; prices are shown on the purchase screen in the app. - Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. - The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The renewal charge is made within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - You can manage the subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://giginet.notion.site/Vinory-Privacy-Policy-3cabb3de82db81a8a202da242a10cf07 Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

bottld4 screens
Vinory3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vinory at none against bottld's 2. Vinory also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). bottld's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 27.0). On price, 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. bottld sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Vinory asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

bottld ships an update every 3 weeks, Vinory every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
bottld versus Vinory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbottldVinory
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB6 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSCOTT RICHARD WIESEgigi-net.net

In-app purchases

2 purchases

bottld

Subscriptions2
  • bottld Monthly$1.991 Month
  • bottld Annual$19.991 Year
None

Vinory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is bottld free?
bottld is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vinory free?
Vinory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do bottld or Vinory have ads?
Neither bottld nor Vinory shows ads.
Which is updated more often, bottld or Vinory?
bottld ships an update every 3 weeks, and Vinory every 5 days. Most recently, bottld was updated on October 24, 2026 and Vinory on October 25, 2026.

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