Beer Styles vs DraughtLab Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beer Styles
Access comprehensive beer style guidelines with vital statistics like gravity, bitterness, color, and alcohol content. Visual representations of key stats help users easily understand differences between styles.
- BJCP Style Guidelines
- Vital stats (OG, FG, IBU, SRM, ABV)
- Aroma, appearance, flavor, mouthfeel descriptions
- Visual representation of stats
- Easy comparison of beer styles
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The guidelines include vital stats such as OG (original gravity), FG (final gravity), IBU (bitterness), SRM (colour), and ABV readings as well as descriptions for aroma, appearance, flavour, and mouth feel. In Beer Styles all the vital stats have been given a visual representation to make it easier to fathom the differences in styles.
DraughtLab Pro
This application helps food and beverage producers create detailed flavor profiles and measure product consistency. It provides tools for sensory analysis, aiding in quality control and troubleshooting production processes. Suitable for both beginners and established sensory programs.
- Build flavor profiles
- Measure consistency
- Troubleshoot production
- Sensory quality control
- Develop products
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DraughtLab is a powerful and intuitive sensory analysis tool designed to bring your tasting data into action. DraughtLab’s platform helps food and beverage producers build flavor profiles, measure consistency and troubleshoot the process. Whether you’re just starting or have a functioning sensory program, DraughtLab’s powerful software tools can help you develop and grow your Sensory Quality Control program.
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Verdict
Beer Styles and DraughtLab Pro both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 96% of Beer Styles's written reviews are positive against 67% of DraughtLab Pro's. DraughtLab Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Beer Styles against 4.8 for DraughtLab Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 73 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Beer Styles's written reviews are positive against 67% of DraughtLab Pro's.
Beer Styles ships an update every 6 weeks, DraughtLab Pro monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer Styles | DraughtLab Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (29 ratings) | 4.8 (73 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Matias Korhonen | Lean Sensory Systems, Inc. |
Customer experience
Beer Styles
DraughtLab Pro
In-app purchases
Beer Styles
No in-app purchases
DraughtLab Pro
No in-app purchases
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