Comparison

Drink Diary vs Bars

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

Head to head
About

Drink Diary

Capture and log your drinks with photos, notes, and details like location and price. Analyze your drinking habits and taste profile with visual reports and insights. Share your favorite drinks with customizable cards.

Highlights
  • Log drinks with photos and notes
  • Track location, price, and time
  • Analyze taste profile with radar chart
  • Generate weekly and monthly reports
  • Share drink cards in various styles
  • Private by design, local data processing
Features
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Turn every pour into something worth keeping. Snap the glass, add a note, and PourNote remembers it for you — the photo, the place, the moment, and slowly, the story of how you really drink. Just name your first drink to begin. See a glass you don't want to forget? Snap it, and you're done. HOW IT WORKS 1. Snap a photo of your drink 2. Add the type, place, price, and a note — in seconds 3. It lands on a clean, calendar-first timeline 4. Share any cup, day, or week as a beautiful card YOUR TASTE PROFILE • Log 3 drinks and unlock a taste personality all your own — like "Bitter Romantic" • An illustrated character portrait with a five-axis taste map: Sweet, Bitter, Strong, Fresh, Mellow • See your signature notes and go-to pours at a glance — free for everyone YOUR COLLECTION — 3 SLOTS FREE • Shelve the bottles you've had, the ones you want, and the ones you keep coming back to • Five-star ratings, sorted by status and type — a private list only you can see • Start a new pour straight from a bottle, or file a pour you've already logged • Keep up to 3 bottles free; Pro removes the Collection limit WHAT YOU GET • A single "Cup of the Day" front and center on your home screen • Share cards in styles like Polaroid, Receipt, Ticket Stub, Vogue Press, and OLED Noir • Square, 3:4, and 9:16 ratios for any feed • A weekly read on your rhythm, your spend, and what you've been reaching for • Free weekly, monthly, and full-year reports GO PRO • Unlimited records, an unlimited Collection, and CSV export • Pro Trend Insights that surface the shifts you'd never catch yourself • Whether you're pouring more or less, where the money goes, the glass you keep returning to • Available as a one-time purchase — buy it once, keep it, no subscription The free tier holds 30 records; you can edit or delete them any time. PERFECT FOR Wine lovers, cocktail explorers, whisky collectors, and anyone who likes to remember a good glass. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal stays on your device. Every insight is calculated locally. We don't sell your data. We don't show ads. Pour. Note. Remember. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pournote.cc/en/privacy

About

Bars

Discover bars, share cocktail experiences, and document your visits with photos and text. Connect with fellow enthusiasts and relive memorable nights through shared stories and favorite drinks.

Highlights
  • Bar discovery
  • Cocktail sharing
  • Visit logging
  • Photo and text reviews
  • Social community
Features
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Bars 是一个围绕酒吧与鸡尾酒的生活社区。 发现想去的,查看酒吧信息与酒友分享;用文字和照片记录自己的到店体验,留下喜欢的一杯和那一晚的故事酒吧。

Screenshots

Drink Diary4 screens
Bars4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bars at none against Drink Diary's 3. Bars also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (15 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Drink Diary sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bars asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drink Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, Bars every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Drink Diary versus Bars: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrink DiaryBars
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB81 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperQin CaoXiangdong Zhang

Customer experience

Drink Diary

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bars

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Drink Diary

Subscriptions2
  • Pournote Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • PourNote Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • PourNote Pro Lifetime$29.99
None

Bars

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drink Diary free?
Drink Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bars free?
Bars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Drink Diary or Bars have ads?
Neither Drink Diary nor Bars shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drink Diary or Bars?
Drink Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bars every 4 days. Most recently, Drink Diary was updated on November 13, 2026 and Bars on November 10, 2026.

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