Comparison

Verdant vs Worth Opening

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

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About

Verdant

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Studying for the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines? Verdant is built to get you ready. It walks you through the whole syllabus, drills it until it sticks, and gives you a real way to practise tasting, all in plain words you will actually remember. The whole app is free. Every lesson, every region, every practice question, with nothing locked away. There is no premium tier and no "upgrade to keep going." Ads keep it free for everyone, and if you would rather study in quiet, one $4.99 purchase removes them for good. That is the only thing money changes here, and there are no subscriptions. WHAT YOU GET - Lessons across the full WSET Level 2 syllabus, written from scratch in clear, friendly English. - 30 grape varieties and 94 wine regions, cross-linked so you can move from a grape, to where it grows, to the questions that test it. - 974 practice questions, each graded the second you answer and explained, so a wrong guess still teaches you something. - The Systematic Approach to Tasting (SAT) as a guided flow you can run on an actual glass, from look to smell to taste to conclusion. HOW IT HELPS YOU REMEMBER - Structure and flavour get hands-on. You set tannin, acidity, body, and the rest on a tactile dial, and build your flavour notes from a bank of real tasting words. By the time you sit the exam, that vocabulary is muscle memory. - Practice sessions lean into what you keep getting wrong, so your time lands where it counts. - The notes you write are yours. They stay on your phone and grow into a record of the wines and milestones you have worked through. WHY VERDANT Level 2 is a short, intense stretch of study, and Verdant is built for it. Run a few questions on the train, read a lesson over lunch, then pour a glass on the weekend and taste your way through the SAT. It works offline, so a weak signal never ends a study session. Verdant is an independent study companion. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by WSET. Pour a glass, open a lesson, and study well.

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Worth Opening

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Twenty complete mock exams for the WSET Level 2 Award in Wines, on your phone, working entirely offline. Independent study aid. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by the Wine & Spirit Education Trust. Each mock is a full paper: 50 multiple-choice questions on the 60-minute clock, split across the six learning outcomes as the exam splits them. In all, 1,000 questions, every one with the reason for the answer and a line on why the tempting wrong answer is wrong. In English, French and Spanish: every question, note and flashcard, in the language you choose when you first open the app. Change it any time in Settings. SIT IT LIKE THE REAL THING - 50 questions on the real 60-minute clock - Training mode: the same paper with no clock, each answer explained the moment you give it - One mark per question and nothing taken off for a wrong answer, as in the exam - The clock keeps running if you close the app, exactly like the exam room - Ten minutes left, then five: announced as an invigilator would - Flag questions, jump between them and pick up any paper where you left it YOUR GRADE THE MOMENT YOU HAND IN - Marked at once and graded on the exam's own bands: pass, merit or distinction - Your score in each learning outcome against the pass line; how many more questions the next grade needs - Every answer reviewed with its explanation, filtered to the ones you got wrong or flagged - Where the marks went topic by topic, the time you used and how you compare with your last sitting - Your grade pressed on as a seal, plus a result card to share REVISE WHAT THE EXAM ASKS - A revision note for every learning outcome: grape growing, winemaking, labels by country, sparkling and fortified wines, storage, service and food - 30 grape profiles: climate, structure, flavours, styles, winemaking, ageing, the exam trap to watch for and every place it is known for - Four drills in rounds of ten: name the grape, the place, the country or the label term. What you miss comes back first - From any explanation, one tap to the note or the grape profile that covers it FIND THE GAPS - If the exam were today: an estimate of your grade on the exam's own lines, from every answer you have given - One tap to a weak-spot run: 20 questions on the topics costing you the most marks - Progress by learning outcome, weighted like the exam, so you revise what costs you marks rather than what merely feels hard - Your score on each of the 48 topics, weakest first, one tap from practice - Search all 1,000 questions for a grape, a region or a term, then practise what you find - Practice by learning outcome, by topic or mixed, questions you have not seen first; several runs open at once - Questions you got wrong come back until you answer them correctly twice in a row; save any question for later FLASHCARDS AND A STUDY PLAN - 244 wine terms with their definitions, free and searchable, with spaced repetition: the ones you keep forgetting come back sooner - Set your exam date and the app says what to do today, drawn from the marks you are losing, the papers you have not sat, your retry list and the cards that are due - One daily reminder at an hour you pick; your week at a glance, with the days in a row you have kept it up NO ACCOUNT, NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO ADS Mock 1, the flashcards, the revision notes and the eight principal grapes are free. One payment unlocks mocks 2 to 20, the 22 regional grape profiles and the drills on all 30 grapes, for good. Your progress stays on your phone and the app works with no signal. Moving on after Level 2? Look for our Level 3 app, from the same team. From Worth Opening, the fine wine business of Raphael Tressieres. Every question, note and definition in the app is our own work. WSET is a registered trademark of the Wine & Spirit Education Trust and appears here only to name the qualification.

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Worth Opening4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Worth Opening at none against Verdant's shown. Worth Opening also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Verdant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Worth Opening sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Verdant ships an update weekly, Worth Opening every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Verdant versus Worth Opening: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVerdantWorth Opening
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size45 MB59 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTranscendental Bio LLCWorth Opening

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Verdant

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99
1 purchases

Worth Opening

One-time1
  • Full access$14.99

Questions

Is Verdant free?
Verdant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Worth Opening free?
Worth Opening is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Verdant or Worth Opening have ads?
Verdant shows ads; Worth Opening does not.
Which is updated more often, Verdant or Worth Opening?
Verdant ships an update weekly, and Worth Opening every 3 days. Most recently, Verdant was updated on October 29, 2026 and Worth Opening on October 31, 2026.

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