CODE app vs Winedrops Club
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CODE app
This app serves as a central hub for hospitality professionals, offering exclusive perks, career opportunities, industry events, and insider content. It aims to reward, inspire, connect, and educate those working in the food, drink, and service sectors.
- Exclusive hospitality perks
- Hospitality-only jobs board
- Industry events and networking
- Exclusive editorial content
- Career advice and insights
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The app for hospitality professionals CODE is the community for hospitality professionals, created to reward, inspire, connect and educate. Our new app puts everything you need in one place. Faster, smarter, and easier to use than ever before. Available exclusively to those working in hospitality - from chefs, bartenders and waiting staff to restaurant managers, hotel teams and more - a CODE membership gives you access to: • Hundreds of hospitality perks at the UK’s best restaurants, bars, hotels, pubs, cafés and more • CODE Careers - a hospitality-only jobs board for chefs, front of house, kitchen teams and more • Industry events, workshops and networking tailored for hospitality professionals • Exclusive editorial with breaking news, insider stories, industry insights and career advice Designed for anyone working in the food, drink or service sector of the hospitality industry. Simply download the CODE app or visit our website to join. Please note: this app is only accessible to current CODE members. Need help? Contact us at: contact@codehospitality.co.uk
Winedrops Club
Discover and purchase discounted wines directly at trade prices, saving up to 80%. Features daily drops of critically acclaimed, personalized wines and a vast shop selection. Manage your wine collection with a virtual cellar and 24/7 customer service.
- Trade price wines
- Daily discounted wine drops
- Personalized wine recommendations
- Shop for discounted wines
- Virtual wine cellar
- Manage deliveries
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Winedrops saves you money on your favourite wines. We cut out the middleman to get you trade prices, saving you up to 80%. Every day we drop a new wine that is: - Massively discounted - Personalized to your taste - Critically acclaimed & highly rated You can also browse our huge variety of discounted wines on our shop. Whether you're into cheap or fine wine, we've got something for you! Manage all your wines in one place with our virtual cellar, where you can: - See taste notes - Buy more - Control your own deliveries Our 24/7 customer service makes us the highest rated & fastest growing wine club in the UK. Now accepting new members.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Winedrops Club at 84% against CODE app's 44%. Winedrops Club also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (69 vs 2). CODE app's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Winedrops Club holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Winedrops Club has 69 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of CODE app's written reviews are positive against 84% of Winedrops Club's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CODE app | Winedrops Club |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (69 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 84.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 69 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 126 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nexus CODE Ltd | Winedrops |
Customer experience
CODE app
Winedrops Club
User reviews
CODE app
From 2 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💰 Great discounts and savings
- 💡 Fantastic concept for hospitality industry
- 🌟 Brilliant app with great deals
- 👍 Good interface and UX (after fixes)
- 🤝 Excellent customer service
Room to improve
- 🐛 App frequently crashing
- 🐌 Slow loading and scrolling
- ❌ Unable to load app
- 🚫 Irrelevant information shown
- ⚠️ Update issues
Winedrops Club
From 69 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great value
- 👍 Simplicity
- 👍 Top app
- 👍 Lots of fun
- 👍 Amazing offers
Room to improve
- 🛑 Stop calling me
- 🛑 TOTAL SCAM
- 🛑 Would not consider
- 🛑 Be aware, not as advertised
- 🛑 Stupidly expensive for what you get
Bugs and requests
CODE app
Reported bugs
21 issues- Location services not working (not near venue)
- Slow loading and scrolling
- Shows irrelevant information after inputting conditions
- Loading map bug
- Constantly crashing
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- Unable to load the app
- Authentication error after update
- Page keeps freezing during login/registration
- App crashing
- Unable to redeem offers
- App frozen on logo screen
- Map doesn't load properly
- Freezes when switching between apps
- Not working on iOS 13
- Stays frozen on the code logo screen
- App crashing when trying to upload employee proof
- Map is inaccurate
- White screen, needs internet connection
- Not allowing login, says need to subscribe
- App crashing all the time
- Locks you out unless you prove hospitality work
Requested features
6 requests- Implement Touch ID for sign-in
- Add better search functions
- Include categories for filtering by cuisine
- Allow booking in advance or walk-in options
- Implement an in-app browser with links to restaurant websites/menus
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- Search for restaurants
Winedrops Club
Reported bugs
2 issues- App glitches when scrolling through filters
- Unable to switch payment cards
Requested features
2 requests- Search by grape and review score
- Larger order discounts
In-app purchases
CODE app
No in-app purchases
Winedrops Club
No in-app purchases
