CODE app vs Wine Brats
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
Wine Brats
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Search any restaurant wine list in seconds. Wine Brats turns a restaurant wine list into a menu you can search, sort and filter. Photograph the pages, import a PDF or paste a link. AI reads each wine and its printed price, you check the result, and the wines are added to that restaurant's list in Wine Brats for the next guest. ADD A WINE LIST • Full-screen camera: shoot page after page • Choose photos from your library • Import a PDF from Files, or share a PDF from Safari, Mail or Files to Wine Brats • Paste a link to the restaurant's online list • Combine photos, PDFs and links for one menu, and review the wines before you save SEARCH THE LIST • Restaurant list prices, converted to the currency you choose • Ratings and average retail prices, mainly from Wine-Searcher, with a Buy on Wine-Searcher link • Sort and filter by wine type, grape, region, country, vintage, price, rating and serving size • See the menu page each wine came from, usually with the wine circled • Drink-or-decant suggestions, and other restaurants that list the same wine FIND A RESTAURANT • Menus near you, sorted by distance • Search by name, or browse wines and restaurants as a list or on a map • No list yet? Add it yourself MAKE IT YOURS • Save wines and restaurants to Favorites • Rate the wines you save from 1 to 10 • Share a wine, or share Wine Brats with friends • Report a wrong price, a photo or anything that shouldn't be there • Send us a bug report or an idea from the Home screen YOUR CELLAR • Keep a personal inventory, bottle counts, purchase prices and tasting notes • Type your wines, take photos, import a file or paste a link, then check before saving • Record drinking a bottle, with Undo, and keep finished wines in your history • Keep your cellar private or share it with specific people • Share a cellar link, add people by email, and see ratings and retail prices where available • Dictate wines with an optional voice note; microphone access is requested only when recording Wine lists come from photos, PDFs and links that guests add, and other users can see those menu pages. Prices come from the menu (converted to your currency) and may have changed since. Ratings and retail prices may be inaccurate or out of date. Wine Brats doesn't sell alcohol. You must be 21 or older to use it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wine Brats at weekly against CODE app's fortnightly. On price, ads, 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.
CODE app ships an update fortnightly, Wine Brats weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CODE app | Wine Brats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Nexus CODE Ltd | myrandomcompany Incorporated |
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
Wine Brats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CODE app
No in-app purchases
Wine Brats
No in-app purchases









