Perfect Pour vs Oak & Analytics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Oak & Analytics
This app transforms your bourbon collection into a detailed tasting journal using real chemical data. Scan bottles to discover their unique profiles, compare them to others, and track your personal tasting history. It also facilitates blind tasting events with friends.
- Barcode bottle scanning
- Chemical profile analysis
- Oak-signature radar charts
- Personal tasting history
- Blind tasting hosting
- Palate pattern recognition
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Oak & Analytics turns your bourbon collection into a data-driven tasting journal — built on real laboratory chemistry, not guesswork. Scan a bottle's barcode and see exactly where it lands: an oak-signature radar, percentile rankings, and a list of chemically similar bottles — all computed from actual LC-MS mass-spectrometry data, not simulated flavor wheels. ** FIND YOUR BOTTLE INSTANTLY ** Point your camera at any barcode. Oak & Analytics resolves it through a multi-tier lookup — our own catalog, a growing community bottle database, and live web search — so even hard-to-find bottles get identified. EXPLORE THE CHEMISTRY Every bottle page shows how it compares to everything else on record: an oak-signature radar chart, percentile ranks, and a flavor map you can explore spatially to see just how unusual — or classic — a bottle's profile really is. TRACK YOUR SHELF Log the bottles you own, rate and review what you taste, and build a personal tasting history. Over time, Oak & Analytics surfaces patterns in your own palate — the notes and chemical signatures you gravitate toward. HOST BLIND TASTINGS Invite friends into a blind-tasting room. Guests join by scanning a QR code, pour blind, guess what's in the glass, and see a full reveal and leaderboard when the tasting wraps. TRY IT INSTANTLY Tap "Explore the Demo" to jump straight into a fully seeded shelf and tasting history — no setup required. Oak & Analytics is for bourbon and whiskey enthusiasts 21 and older. Age verification is required to create an account. — OAK & ANALYTICS PRO (OPTIONAL) Pro unlocks full chemistry depth, an unlimited shelf, unlimited blind-tasting hosting, and complete palate analytics. • Pro Monthly — $1.99 per month • Pro Yearly — $14.99 per year • Lifetime unlock — $29.99 one-time (not a subscription) Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://oak-and-analytics-mobile.web.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Perfect Pour at every 2 days against Oak & Analytics's every 2 weeks. Oak & Analytics's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Perfect Pour sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Oak & Analytics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Perfect Pour ships an update every 2 days, Oak & Analytics every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perfect Pour | Oak & Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 518 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Drunken Unicorn Productions, LLC | STEVEN NICHOLAS HART |
In-app purchases
Perfect Pour
- Bourbon Enthusiast$5.991 Month
- Bourbon Keeper$14.991 Month
- Bourbon Enthusiast$59.001 Year
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- Bourbon Keeper$99.001 Year
Oak & Analytics
- Pro — Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro — Yearly$14.991 Year
- Pro — Lifetime$29.99
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