Comparison

Brewery Explorer vs PintWise

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

PintWise

Catalog craft beers you've tasted by taking photos, recording details like brewery and rating, and sharing with friends. Search your personal database to recall past favorites and avoid repeat disappointments.

Highlights
  • Catalog craft beers
  • Record tasting details
  • Take beer photos
  • Searchable beer database
  • Share ratings with friends
  • iCloud syncing
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Remember every beer worth remembering. PintWise is a personal catalog for the craft beers you've tasted — snap a photo, rate it, and never again stand in the beer aisle wondering if you liked the one with the cool label. This app grew out of sharing some great (and some not so great) beers over the years with friends and family. After giving and receiving tons of recommendations, it became impossible to remember them all — so PintWise was born. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Photograph each beer and log the name, brewery, style, price, and where you bought it • Rate in half-stars, mark whether you'd buy it again, and write tasting notes while it's fresh • Credit collaborating breweries on collab brews • Search your whole catalog in seconds, right there in the aisle • Share any beer as a beautiful card straight to your friends SEE YOUR TASTE TAKE SHAPE Statistics reveal your top styles, your favorite breweries, your average rating, and your highest-rated pour. At the end of the year, Your Year in Beer wraps it all into a recap worth sharing. YOURS, EVERYWHERE Your catalog syncs across your devices with iCloud, so replacing a phone never means losing a single beer. Export the whole thing — photos included — to a plain backup file any time. No lock-in. PintWise is free for your first 5 beers. Unlimited beers, backup restore, and everything above are part of PintWise Pro. Built by one person, on nights and weekends, for people who take their beer seriously and themselves less so. Cheers. Privacy Policy: https://www.zeynatech.com/pintwise/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Brewery Explorer4 screens
PintWise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PintWise at 100% against Brewery Explorer's 25%. PintWise also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 10 months). Brewery Explorer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (13 vs 4). On price, ads and device support 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. PintWise sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. Brewery Explorer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PintWise holds the better App Store score, 5.0 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 PintWise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewery Explorer ships an update every 10 months, PintWise every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Brewery Explorer versus PintWise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewery ExplorerPintWise
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (13 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB18 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperB Explorers LLCZeyna Technologies, LLC

Customer experience

Brewery Explorer

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

PintWise

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Brewery Explorer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PintWise

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$1.001 Month
  • Annual Subscription$10.001 Year

Questions

Is Brewery Explorer free?
Brewery Explorer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PintWise free?
PintWise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brewery Explorer or PintWise?
PintWise is rated higher. Brewery Explorer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while PintWise averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Brewery Explorer or PintWise have ads?
Neither Brewery Explorer nor PintWise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brewery Explorer or PintWise?
Brewery Explorer ships an update every 10 months, and PintWise every 2 weeks. Most recently, Brewery Explorer was updated on September 19, 2026 and PintWise on September 26, 2026.

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