Comparison

DrinkSocialMedia vs Perfect Pour

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

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About

DrinkSocialMedia

Features
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Drink Social โ€” Share, Discover, and Connect Around the World of Drinks Drink Social is a community for people who love great drinks and the places that serve them. Share your favorite pours, discover new recipes, find venues nearby, and connect with creators, mixologists, and fellow enthusiasts. What you can do: Share your vibe โ€” Post photos and videos of your favorite drinks, recipes, and moments. Explore the map โ€” Discover bars, breweries, distilleries, wineries, and bottle shops near you. Follow creators โ€” Keep up with your favorite mixologists, bartenders, and drink personalities. Save recipes โ€” Bookmark cocktail recipes, bottle picks, and creator collections to try later. Go live โ€” Stream live pours, tastings, and events from the drink community. Join polls โ€” Vote on whiskey, wine, beer, and cocktail matchups. Direct messaging โ€” Chat with friends and creators in the community. Drink Social is a social platform for drink culture. Join the community and share your next great pour.

About

Perfect Pour

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Know your palate. Find your perfect pour. The Perfect Pour is the bourbon and whiskey app that learns your taste from your own pours, then matches every bottle, every shelf and every distillery on your bourbon trail to it. We never rate you. Your palate does. Other whiskey apps hand you the crowd's scores. Popularity isn't your palate. Take the 90-second whiskey quiz or log a single pour and your Palate Print takes shape: a flavor map drawn from your own glass, and how you like a pour to hit (body, heat and grip). It sharpens with every pour you log. SCAN ANY BOTTLE Snap any side of the label or scan the barcode. The app figures out what it is (distillery, proof, mash bill, story) and draws the bottle's Flavor Map beside yours, with a match that says why it fits, in plain English. Scan free, in the store, at a bar or at a festival. TASTING NOTES AND YOUR WHISKEY JOURNAL Log a Quick Take in a few taps or walk a Slow Pour step by step. Taste blind, compare two pours side by side, and keep every whiskey tasting in a journal that remembers, bottle by bottle. YOUR BOURBON INVENTORY Your Rickhouse is a bourbon tracker for your whole whiskey collection: sealed, open, empty, tasted, just looking. Bring in your spreadsheet. See what you've finished and what you keep reaching for. YOUR BOURBON TRAIL Every state, every distillery, ranked for your palate, with the best bottle at each house for you. Find a distillery near you, check in and collect a gold stamp at every stop. Trailmaker plans a bourbon trail or a whiskey trail trip city by city, matched to your palate. Your Trail Passport is a bourbon passport for every state you visit. BOURBON HUNTING One chase list: what you're hunting, what's worth hunting next, and when the allocated bottles drop. Sighting reports from friends when a bottle you're chasing turns up. POUR WITH YOUR PEOPLE Host a blind tasting night with a reveal, pour for the people who matter, and keep who showed up and what they liked. FRANKLIN The guide built into the app. Knows whiskey deeply. Calm. Doesn't oversell. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone who pours, from your first glass to a two-hundred-bottle shelf. The everyday bottle gets the same attention as the rare one, and nobody here makes you feel small for asking. FREE TO START Free, always: your Rickhouse, your pours, your Palate Print and every state on the Trail. Bourbon Enthusiast adds hosting, the Trail Flight and research on every bottle. Bourbon Keeper comes with a 30-day trial, no card required. Take the 90-second quiz tonight and watch your Palate Print appear. Welcome in, and pour with us. 21+ only. Please enjoy responsibly. Never drink and drive; plan a designated driver for every trail day.

Screenshots

DrinkSocialMedia4 screens
Perfect Pour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DrinkSocialMedia at none against Perfect Pour's 4. DrinkSocialMedia also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Perfect Pour sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. DrinkSocialMedia asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
DrinkSocialMedia versus Perfect Pour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrinkSocialMediaPerfect Pour
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size53 MB107 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPATRICK DIANAND NARAINDrunken Unicorn Productions , LLC

In-app purchases

None

DrinkSocialMedia

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Perfect Pour

Subscriptions4
  • Bourbon Enthusiast$5.991 Month
  • Bourbon Keeper$14.991 Month
  • Bourbon Enthusiast$59.001 Year
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  • Bourbon Keeper$99.001 Year

Questions

Is DrinkSocialMedia free?
DrinkSocialMedia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perfect Pour free?
Perfect Pour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do DrinkSocialMedia or Perfect Pour have ads?
Neither DrinkSocialMedia nor Perfect Pour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DrinkSocialMedia or Perfect Pour?
DrinkSocialMedia ships an update every 2 days, and Perfect Pour every 2 days. Most recently, DrinkSocialMedia was updated on October 31, 2026 and Perfect Pour on October 31, 2026.

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