Comparison

Grapehop vs Aboutwine

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

Head to head
About

Grapehop

Features
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Every great wine deserves to be remembered. Every hidden gem of a craft beer deserves a second chance. Grapehop is your personal drinks diary - built for people who love what they drink and want to remember why. Log a drink in seconds. Snap a photo of the label and let smart OCR scanning automatically detect the name, winery or brewery, vintage, ABV, grape variety, and country of origin. Fewer taps. More drinking. --- FEATURES --- Smart Label Scanning Point your camera at any wine or beer label and Grapehop fills in the details for you using on-device OCR. Works offline. Nothing leaves your phone. Location Tagging and Map View Every entry is automatically geocoded with the city and country where you enjoyed the drink. Explore your full tasting history on an interactive map - filter by rating to find your best spots at a glance. Yey / Meh / Ney Rating No 100-point scales. No overthinking. Just your honest, immediate reaction: Yey if you loved it, Meh if it was fine, Ney if it wasn't for you. Simple and surprisingly effective. Favorites Tab Every drink you rate Yey lands automatically in your Favorites - a curated hall of fame of your personal bests, always ready to share. Search and Filter Full-text search across all your entries. Filter by drink type, style, or rating. Find that amazing IPA from two summers ago in seconds. iCloud Sync Your entire diary - entries, photos, and all - syncs seamlessly across all your Apple devices via iCloud. Private, automatic, and always up to date. English and Spanish The full app experience in both languages. Switch anytime in Settings. --- YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS --- Grapehop collects no personal data. No accounts. No sign-in. No tracking. No ads. Your diary lives on your device and in your private iCloud - accessible only to you. --- WHAT YOU CAN LOG --- Wines: Red, White, Rose, Sparkling, Dessert, Fortified, Orange Beers: IPA, Lager, Stout, Pale Ale, Sour, Porter, Wheat, and 25+ more styles Fields: name, producer, type, style, grape/hop variety, vintage, ABV, country, city, tasting notes, photo, rating, and date. Start your drinks diary today. Your first Yey is one tap away.

About

Aboutwine

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Ever finish a great bottle and forget what it was a week later? Aboutwine fixes that. Point your camera at the label and you'll know the wine in seconds: how it tastes, what it goes with, and who made it. Save the ones you like, add a quick note, and your cellar builds itself. What you can do: - Scan a label to identify a wine from a photo and see its details. - Check how it tastes before you pour: sweetness, acidity, body, and tannin, plus the aromas and grapes. - Ask the AI sommelier anything β€” tonight's dinner, a mood, a budget β€” and get real bottles to pour. - Explore the Wine Atlas, a world map of regions and estates with your saved wineries pinned across it. - Keep a cellar you'll actually remember. Save bottles, rate them, write your own notes. - Read the story behind the estate that made it. - Search any wine, winery, or region, or browse by red, white, sparkling, and rosΓ©. Whether you're just getting into wine or you've been collecting for years, Aboutwine helps you remember what you loved. Pour something good tonight. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aboutwine.app/privacy

Screenshots

Grapehop4 screens
Aboutwine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grapehop at none against Aboutwine's 2. Aboutwine's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Aboutwine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Grapehop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grapehop ships an update every 3 weeks, Aboutwine every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Grapehop versus Aboutwine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrapehopAboutwine
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.226.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size7 MB11 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJonathan ContrerasPacifiq

In-app purchases

None

Grapehop

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Aboutwine

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Grapehop free?
Grapehop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aboutwine free?
Aboutwine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grapehop or Aboutwine have ads?
Neither Grapehop nor Aboutwine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grapehop or Aboutwine?
Grapehop ships an update every 3 weeks, and Aboutwine every 3 days. Most recently, Grapehop was updated on October 1, 2026 and Aboutwine on October 24, 2026.

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