Brewery Explorer vs hopyard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brewery Explorer
Discover and connect with craft breweries nationwide. Earn and redeem loyalty tokens at participating locations. Plan your brewery visits and track your exploration.
- Discover local and national breweries
- Earn CAPS loyalty tokens
- Redeem tokens for rewards
- Plan brewery visits
- Track brewery exploration
- Connect with breweries
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Brewery Explorer is dedicated to the craft brewing industry’s biggest fans. You love exploring new breweries, earning incentives and enjoying great beer. If you’re 21+ and have a love for craft breweries, this app is made for YOU! The Brewery Explorer app connects you to breweries in your community, your state and across the country. Use Brewery Explorer to plan and keep track of your exploration and to connect directly with your favorite breweries. With Brewery Explorer you will easily locate, learn about, and check-in with great craft breweries wherever you roam. And now, the app allows thousands of breweries to reward you for visiting them: Gather CAPS tokens from over 8,000 breweries in the United States and, at participating breweries, redeem your CAPS for special at your favorite breweries! Time to go out and earn some CAPS!
hopyard
Discover nearby breweries with ease. This app provides a simple map interface to locate breweries, brewpubs, and bottle shops. Access public information on thousands of locations for your next beer adventure.
- Discover nearby breweries
- Search brewery map
- View brewery information
- Mark destinations
- Simple, no-fluff interface
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Finding breweries has never been easier! Thousands of breweries available at your fingertips. Find yourself browsing for your next beer wherever you are! Open the app, search the map, mark your destination, DONE. Simplicity has finally come to the beer drinking community. No bloat, no fluff, just breweries. All of the brewery data is fantastically served by Open Brewery DB. Open Brewery DB is a free dataset and API with public information on breweries, cideries, brewpubs, and bottle shops. It is OBDB's belief that public information should be freely accessible for the betterment of the beer community and the happiness of web developers and data analysts. That is why we created hopyard; to give a pretty face to a beautiful backend.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: hopyard at 100% against Brewery Explorer's 25%. hopyard also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months). Brewery Explorer's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
hopyard holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Brewery Explorer's written reviews are positive against 100% of hopyard's.
Brewery Explorer ships an update every 10 months, hopyard every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewery Explorer | hopyard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (13 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | B Explorers LLC | Sudden Development, LLC |
Customer experience
Brewery Explorer
hopyard
In-app purchases
Brewery Explorer
No in-app purchases
hopyard
No in-app purchases







