Brewery Explorer vs PintWise
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!
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.
- 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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Brewery Explorer | PintWise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (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 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | B Explorers LLC | Zeyna Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Brewery Explorer
PintWise
In-app purchases
Brewery Explorer
No in-app purchases
PintWise
- Monthly Subscription$1.001 Month
- Annual Subscription$10.001 Year









