Comparison

Pour Picks vs Bourbon Tracker

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

Head to head
About

Pour Picks

Discover spirits tailored to your taste preferences through a personalized palate profile. Scan bottles to add them to your digital cellar, track your collection, and explore food pairings. This app helps you find drinks you'll love, not just popular recommendations.

Highlights
  • Personalized palate profile creation
  • Bottle scanning and AI recognition
  • Digital cellar management (wishlist, owned, finished)
  • Tasting journal for notes and ratings
  • Food pairing suggestions for whiskeys
  • Smart match quiz for shopping recommendations
Features
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Find the bourbon you'll actually love. Not the one a banner told you to buy. YOUR BOURBON DNA Answer a few quick questions and Pour Picks builds your palate profile. Sweet or spicy. Easy sipper or cask-strength. The whole shape of how you drink. From there, every bottle in the app gets matched to how YOU actually taste, not how a stranger scored it. Open any bottle and you'll see how it fits your DNA, in plain language. "Leans sweeter than your usual." "Right in your wheelhouse." So the next bottle you buy stops being a guess. SCAN ANY BOTTLE Point your camera at the label. The AI reads it, you confirm or fix it, and it's in your cellar before the next sip. Bourbon, scotch, wine, your weird store-pick rye, your wedding-gift mezcal, anything with a label. For catalogued American whiskeys you also get proof, mash bill, char level, flavor notes, food pairings, and community ratings. Anything outside the catalog still gets a slot, so your cellar stays honest. ONE CELLAR FOR EVERYTHING Wishlist, owned, finished. Quantity, purchase price, total cellar value at a glance. Swap any catalog photo for a shot of your own bottle. Bourbon, wine, tequila, all in one place. SMART MATCH QUIZ For when you're shopping, not pouring. Three questions for the quick read. Nine for the deep cut. Every match comes with the reason it matched. Or skip the questions and just scroll the catalog. TASTING JOURNAL Nose, palate, finish. Pour size, who you shared it with, freeform notes. Edit them as your palate shifts, because it will. FOOD PAIRINGS Two crowd-pleasers and one deep cut for every whiskey in the catalog. CASK CLUB Pour Picks is free to use. The free tier covers ten scans before you'll want to think about Cask Club ($2.99/mo or $24.99/yr), which unlocks: - Unlimited scans - "Find this bottle" deeper AI search - Full cellar filters (wishlist, finished) - Advanced 9-question quiz with top 10 matches - Tasting Journal review composer - Food pairings on every bottle - CSV export of your full tasting archive Cancel anytime in the App Store. WHO THIS IS FOR Bourbon drinkers who keep a real bar. We know American whiskey deeply, and the catalog reflects that. Your wine, your vacation tequila, your friend's mezcal gift all live in the same cellar. That's the point. What you won't find here: a social feed. Bottle-of-the-day pop-ups. Retailer links. Tracking. Pour Picks is independent. Not affiliated with any distillery, retailer, or brand. Built by one person who'd rather you drink less and remember more. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pourpicks.app/privacy

About

Bourbon Tracker

Effortlessly track your bourbon collection with AI-powered bottle scanning. Monitor your inventory, stay updated on allocation drops, and explore release calendars. Preserve tasting notes and gain insights into your collection's value.

Highlights
  • AI bottle scanning
  • Collection tracking
  • Allocation drop alerts
  • Release calendar
  • Tasting notes
  • Portfolio insights
  • Community features
Features
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Bourbon Tracker™ is the AI-powered collection app built for bourbon and American whiskey enthusiasts. Scan any bottle in seconds, track your collection, and follow allocation drops — all in one place. SCAN ANY BOTTLE INSTANTLY Point your camera at any bourbon label and our AI identifies it instantly — name, distillery, proof, age, and current market value. No typing. No searching. Just scan. TRACK YOUR ENTIRE COLLECTION Know exactly what you own. Sealed or open. Fill level. What you paid. What it's worth today. Store picks, barrel numbers, batch numbers. Every detail preserved. FOLLOW ALLOCATION DROPS Community-reported store drops by region, in real time. Never miss a Blanton's, Weller, or Buffalo Trace drop near you again. RELEASE CALENDAR Every major annual release in one place — BTAC, Pappy Van Winkle, Four Roses Limited Edition, Old Fitzgerald, and 25+ more. Know what's dropping before it hits shelves. THE VAULT Every bottle you finish, gift, or trade is preserved forever — with your tasting notes, final rating, and the memories around it. Your permanent record as a collector. PORTFOLIO INSIGHTS See your collection like an investment portfolio. Total market value, gain/loss versus what you paid, breakdown by distillery and type, and personalized AI recommendations for what to add next. COMMUNITY Share tasting notes with fellow collectors, load public reviews, and see how your collection ranks on the leaderboard. Free to start. No download required on web. Collector tier unlocks unlimited bottles, 250 AI scans per month, and full portfolio analytics. Built by a collector. For collectors. Terms of Use: https://bourbon-tracker.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Pour Picks4 screens
Bourbon Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pour Picks at 5.0 against Bourbon Tracker's 3.0. Pour Picks also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Pour Picks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Bourbon Tracker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pour Picks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pour Picks has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pour Picks versus Bourbon Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPour PicksBourbon Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB8 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTimberline Ventures LLCBlake Rawson

Customer experience

Pour Picks

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bourbon Tracker

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pour Picks

Subscriptions2
  • Pour Picks Pro$2.991 Month
  • Pour Picks Pro$24.991 Year
1 purchases

Bourbon Tracker

Subscriptions1
  • Collector$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Pour Picks free?
Pour Picks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bourbon Tracker free?
Bourbon Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pour Picks or Bourbon Tracker?
Pour Picks is rated higher. Pour Picks averages 5.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Bourbon Tracker averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pour Picks or Bourbon Tracker have ads?
Neither Pour Picks nor Bourbon Tracker shows ads.

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