Comparison

fruitday vs My Wine Notebook

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

Head to head
About

fruitday

Effortlessly log your wine tasting experiences with photos and detailed notes. Discover what friends are drinking and share your own discoveries. Keep track of wines you want to try and revisit your tasting history.

Highlights
  • Log wine tastings with photos
  • Automatic producer, vintage, and region fill-in
  • Personal ratings and notes
  • Search tasting history and photos
  • Save wines for future reference
  • Follow friends and see their drinks
  • Comment on and like friends' notes
Features
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for your first orange wine or your thousandth burgundy — fruitday makes it effortless to remember what you drank and see what your friends are drinking. log it fast: - snap a photo, let fruitday fill in the rest - NEW: log multiple wines from a single photo - producer, vintage, region, etc. in seconds - drop your rating and notes in your own words - save drafts, finish whenever never lose a bottle again: - search over text and photos - scroll back through your tasting history and photo album - save wines for future reference a little community of people who like wine: - follow friends and palates you trust - see what everyone's drinking - like, save, and comment - tag your friends so they can add their notes too your call, always: option to keep notes private. please drink responsibly. you must be 18+ to use fruitday. questions? support@fruitday.app

About

My Wine Notebook

Features
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Wine Notebook is your personal wine journal — built for normal people who want to remember every great bottle and discover what they truly love. ADD WINES EFFORTLESSLY Search by name, or photograph the label. Wine Notebook matches against a verified catalog and fills in the details automatically. Add anything that doesn't match with a quick manual entry. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Your entire wine library in one place. Filter by type, country, region, or rating. A built-in world map plots every wine by origin so you can see your collection come alive geographically. CAPTURE TASTING NOTES Write personal notes for any wine — aroma, finish, pairing ideas, memories. Your notes stay private by default, or you can choose to publish them and share your discoveries with the community. RATE AND REVIEW Give wines a star rating and detailed review. Track which wines you've loved, liked, or would skip next time. Build a record that actually helps you choose better bottles. EARN BADGES AND POINTS Every wine you add, rate, and review earns points toward badges. Unlock achievements like First Pour, Old World Explorer, Tuscan Trailblazer, and more as your collection grows. IMPORT IN BULK Already have a list? Import wines from a CSV file to populate your collection instantly. Wine Notebook is designed to respect your privacy. No ads, no selling your data.

Screenshots

fruitday4 screens
My Wine Notebook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: fruitday at none against My Wine Notebook's 1. fruitday also leads on ads (none vs shown). My Wine Notebook's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. My Wine Notebook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. fruitday asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
fruitday versus My Wine Notebook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterfruitdayMy Wine Notebook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB14 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperFruitday, Inc.Bartosz Klemensowski

In-app purchases

None

fruitday

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

My Wine Notebook

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$14.99

Questions

Is fruitday free?
fruitday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Wine Notebook free?
My Wine Notebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do fruitday or My Wine Notebook have ads?
My Wine Notebook shows ads; fruitday does not.
Which is updated more often, fruitday or My Wine Notebook?
fruitday ships an update every 2 weeks, and My Wine Notebook every 2 weeks. Most recently, fruitday was updated on October 5, 2026 and My Wine Notebook on October 25, 2026.

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