Comparison

Brewery Explorer vs hopyard

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Discover local and national breweries
  • Earn CAPS loyalty tokens
  • Redeem tokens for rewards
  • Plan brewery visits
  • Track brewery exploration
  • Connect with breweries
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Discover nearby breweries
  • Search brewery map
  • View brewery information
  • Mark destinations
  • Simple, no-fluff interface
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Brewery Explorer4 screens
hopyard4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Brewery Explorer versus hopyard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewery Explorerhopyard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (13 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB51 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperB Explorers LLCSudden Development, LLC

Customer experience

Brewery Explorer

All ratings13 ratings
Positive69.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

hopyard

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Brewery Explorer

No in-app purchases

None

hopyard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brewery Explorer free?
Brewery Explorer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is hopyard free?
hopyard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brewery Explorer or hopyard?
hopyard is rated higher. Brewery Explorer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while hopyard averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Brewery Explorer or hopyard have ads?
Neither Brewery Explorer nor hopyard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brewery Explorer or hopyard?
Brewery Explorer ships an update every 10 months, and hopyard every 3 weeks. Most recently, Brewery Explorer was updated on November 1, 2026 and hopyard on November 3, 2026.

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