Comparison

Sorbo vs Decanted

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

Head to head
About

Sorbo

Features
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Sorbo is your wine tasting notebook: serious and fast at once. Note what you drink, understand your own taste and discover your next favourite bottle. No showing off, no impossible forms โ€” just you and the wine. TASTE IN SECONDS Log any wine with a quick card: type, body, acidity, tannins, aromas and your score from 50 to 100. The card is pre-filled with the typical profile for that style, so you only fine-tune what you actually perceive. Add the grape (over 600 varieties) and a photo. YOUR CELLAR, ALWAYS WITH YOU All your saved tastings, with search and filters. Save the bottles you haven't opened yet and let Sorbo tell you when they're at their peak with the drinking window. Coming from another app? Import your history from Vivino, CellarTracker or any CSV. SCAN AND GET IT RIGHT Photograph a restaurant's wine list and Sorbo ranks the wines that match your palate, with a budget filter and food pairing based on what you're eating. At the supermarket? Scan the shelf and find out which bottle is worth it. TABLE MODE: BLIND TASTING WITH FRIENDS Create a room, invite by code or QR and taste together, open or blind. Score, reveal and crown the winner on the podium. EXPLORER MODE: TRAIN YOUR PALATE Beat challenges, answer the daily quiz, earn badges and watch the wine map light up with every country and region you taste. Challenges and Quizzes, free for everyone. YOUR PALATE, MADE CLEAR Discover your taster profile, how you score and where your taste is heading. And at the end of the year, relive your year in wine to share it. PLANS โ€” Free: unlimited tastings, Challenges and Quizzes. โ€” Premium: scan lists and shops (10/month), full Table Mode, your palate in depth and your country's map. โ€” Unlimited: everything in Premium, with unlimited scans and the whole world map. Available in 7 languages. For ages 18+. Please drink responsibly. Terms of Use (standard Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Decanted

Features
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A private journal for the wine you drink. Photograph the label. Decanted reads what it can - producer, name, vintage, region, grapes, alcohol - and fills the form in for you. Every field it suggests is marked, so you can see what came from the label and correct anything it got wrong before you save. Then add what only you know: a rating out of ten, where you were drinking it, what you paid, and a note you will be glad to have in two years. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to. Your bottles, photographs, notes and ratings are stored on your device and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nowhere for it to go. You can give yourself a name and a photograph if you want them. The name travels only inside a file you choose to send. The photograph never leaves at all - it is not in a backup, not in anything you share, and not on a card you export. Reading a label happens on your device too. The text recognition is Apple's, running locally, so the photograph never leaves your phone to be read. If you allow location access, Decanted can fill in where you were drinking. The place name is looked up through Apple and only the name is saved - your coordinates are not stored, and you can leave location switched off entirely. BUILT FOR A COLLECTION THAT GROWS - Search by producer, name, region or grape - Filter by style, country, vintage, rating or favourite - Sort by what you tasted last, what you rated highest, or by vintage - Card grid or compact list, whichever you prefer - Similar bottles suggested from what you have already saved, so you can see what a new wine reminds you of WHAT IT ADDS UP TO Once there are enough bottles to say something, the journal starts answering questions you did not think to ask. Which countries and styles you actually drink, which grapes and vintages, where you were when you drank them, and how you tend to score. Alongside the charts, your top wines - overall, and within each style and country - ranked from the ratings you gave. There is nobody else's score involved and none is asked for: these are your opinions, counted. SEND A BOTTLE TO SOMEONE Share wines with another Decanted reader as a file. What arrives is kept aside until they choose to add it, and their journal remembers who it came from. Nothing goes anywhere until you send it, and you choose how. YOURS TO KEEP Export the whole journal - entries and photographs - as a single ordinary zip file. The wines are readable JSON and the photographs are ordinary images, so you can open it anywhere, not only here. Import it back on another device, or keep it as the backup that a journal with no server behind it needs. ALSO - Free, with nothing to buy inside it - No advertising and no tracking of any kind - Works with no connection at all - VoiceOver and Dynamic Type supported throughout - Light and dark Decanted is a record of wine you have already tasted. It is intended for adults of legal drinking age.

Screenshots

Sorbo4 screens
Decanted4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Decanted at none against Sorbo's 2. Decanted also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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. Sorbo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Decanted asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sorbo ships an update every 3 weeks, Decanted every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Sorbo versus Decanted: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSorboDecanted
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better15.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size46 MB63 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJordi LluisJevgeni Agnevstsikov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Sorbo

Subscriptions2
  • Sorbo Premium Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Sorbo Premium Anual$14.991 Year
None

Decanted

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sorbo free?
Sorbo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Decanted free?
Decanted is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sorbo or Decanted have ads?
Neither Sorbo nor Decanted shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sorbo or Decanted?
Sorbo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Decanted every 4 days. Most recently, Sorbo was updated on October 31, 2026 and Decanted on November 6, 2026.

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