8 Must-Have Wine Apps For Your Smartphone

There are quite a few reasons to download a wine app for your smartphone or tablet. Maybe you want to find that perfect pairing for your dinner party while you’re at the store. Or, maybe you want to have an inventory of what bottles are in your collection right at the tips of your fingers. Or, perhaps you want to find out who has the best price on your favorite bottle of Chardonnay.

There are a number of wine apps available for both the iPhone and Android smartphones, but weeding through the hundreds of wine apps could pose a bit of a challenge. Our list below features only the best of the best wine apps in both online markets, with a link to download each of them directly.

In no particular order, here are our top eight must-have wine apps for your iPhone and Android smartphones.

Snooth Wine Pro

Snooth Wine Pro has a unique image recognition feature, which makes it feel like you are shopping for wine in a futuristic utopia. Simply snap a picture of the label on a bottle of wine, and Snooth Wine Pro pulls up a wealth of information. Included in Snooth’s library are user reviews, similar wines and price comparisons with other stores in the area. The app makes you a savvy shopper as well as a savvy drinker of wines. Use the database to store images to consult later if you are not sure whether you have tried a specific wine.

Snooth Wine Pro also offers more conventional wine app features. Use it to search wine stores in your area. It has a wine and food pairing feature and allows you to keep a database of wines you tried in the past. The downside of the app is that it is a little on the expensive side as far as iPhone apps. A free version is available, but the image recognition capability is disabled and ads pop up at inopportune times.

Cost: $4.99  —  iTunes Download

Cor.kz

The Cor.kz wine app is definitely a “must have” app for any wine enthusiast. With an incredibly deep database of wines, you have the opportunity to search through over 1.5 million different wines and read over 3 million user reviews. You can also keep track of the wines you’ve tried, along with any tasting note or reviews you may have had about each wine.

Besides the huge database of wines available at your fingertips, the most unique feature of Cor.kz is the ability to compare different wines side-by-side. At this time, this is the only wine app that allows you to do this.

For those that have their own wine cellar or large collection, Cor.kz allows you to keep an inventory right at your fingertips. You no longer have to wonder if you have that bottle of Cabernet, you can pull out your phone and see exactly what you have in your collection at home.

To help ensure you get the best price for that bottle of wine, Cor.kz will show you the prices from hundreds of sources online, including brick-and-mortar stores in your area. You can also get more information about each wine by scanning the barcode on the back of the bottle. Like most smartphone apps these days, Cor.kz even comes with the ability to interact with your friends on social networks, including Twitter and Facebook.

Cost: $1.99  —  iTunes Download  |  Google Play Download

Hello Vino

Hello Vino is a no-frills, efficient wine app for the iPhone. It offers lists of wine pairings from a clear and easy to understand database. Users sort by all the usual categories, such as type of wine, food pairing and region, as well as by holidays and special occasions. If you are looking for the perfect wine to take to a Thanksgiving dinner, or to present to a friend on her birthday, this is the wine app to make it easy for you.

An additional fun feature of the Hello Vino app is the ability to post your wine selection directly to social media. Hello Vino works with both Facebook and Twitter, allowing you to automatically share your wine picks with friends or your followers with the push of a button. The best part about Hello Vino is that it is completely free. It is one of the only top wine apps with no cost.

Cost: Free  —  iTunes Download  |  Google Play Download

AG Wine

The Approach Guides Wine app is packed full of information about different styles of wine. Search for appropriate wines using a variety of different options, including wine style, grape, region and food pairing. The information is so clearly and concisely presented that many users find themselves learning quite a bit about wine as they go. The app is also great for beginners because it categorizes wines in an easy-to-understand way, using a minimum of industry-specific language.

The AG Wine app is ideal for users who do not have an extensive background in wine tasting but are experienced drinkers and have a sense of what they want. The food pairing app is great for picking up a bottle of wine on the fly to pair with a home-cooked meal. Other search categories, such as the one that allows users to browse by wine type, are ideal for planning a dish around the perfect bottle of wine. The ability to search by region and country makes trying new wines from unfamiliar vineyards easier than ever.

Cost: $2.99  —  iTunes Download

Wine Events

If you like to go out to local wine events, then this is a must-have wine app for you. From the makers of LocalWineEvents.com, this mobile app is the easiest way to find different food and wine events in your area. Even if you’re on vacation, you just start up this app and do a search for what’s happening around you.

Due to the growing popularity of this wine app, you can even get exclusive deals and offers right at your fingertips. Share the events you’re planning on going to with your friends, and check-in to the events you’re at.

We like it because it’s the easiest way to find out about the free wine tastings in our area.

Cost: Free  —  iTunes Download  |  Google Play Download

Pair It!

This is the perfect wine app for anyone that wants to learn more about food and wine pairings. Created by renowned chef Bruce Riezenman, this app gives you the opportunity to search a database that consists of more than 20,000 comprehensive wine pairings.

Featuring over 180 different varietals and 1,000 different dishes, Pair It! gives you what you need to find the perfect wine for almost every course. You can save all of the pairings you’ve tried right in your account, along with tasting notes for each.

You can enter your preferred wine and find the perfect food pairing, or you can enter in what you plan on having for dinner to find the perfect wine to go with it. The ‘Swirl’ feature allows you to randomly select a pairing, or you can browse the featured “pairing picks” from the expert himself.

Pair It! is essentially the go-to search engine for food and wine pairings.

Cost: $4.99  —  iTunes Download  |  Google Play Download

America’s Wine Trails

This wine app is great at discovering where the closest wineries and wine trails are to your current location. Whether you are at home or on vacation, you can log in and find the contact info for each winery, a link to their website and an interactive map that you can follow. Their database currently features over 6,000 wineries and vineyards, plus 260 wine trails.

The ‘Wine Journal’ feature allows you to to keep track of all the wineries you’ve visited, as well as your tasting notes for your favorite wines. The ‘Winery Near me’ feature allows you to find all the wineries and vineyards in your area.

If you like to travel and visit different wineries, then this is definitely a must-have app for you.

Cost: Free  —  iTunes Download  |  Google Play Download

Vivino Wine Scanner Pro

Vivino Wine Scanner is one of the best all-around wine apps. It has many of the same features as other apps on this list, but is simplified in a way that will appeal to many people. Their number one feature is the ability for you to take a picture of a bottle of wine and have the details served up to you instantly. If you happen to find one that is not in their database, which consists of over 1 million types of wine, then they will manually do the work for you.

You can also create a wish list of wines you’d like to try, as well as keep track of the ones you have. Like other apps on this list, you can rate, review and share your experiences with others via Facebook, Twitter and email.

There’s two versions of Vivino Wine Scanner. The pro version costs $4.99, and gives you the ability to keep track of the wines in your collection, as well as allows you to search for wine without the bottle in your hand. We think the pro version is well worth the money, but it might not be for you.

Cost: $4.99  —  iTunes Download  |  Google Play Download

Did we miss any wine apps?

These eight wine apps above are ones that we personally have tried and use frequently. A simple search for “wine” in Apple’s Appstore or Google Play returns hundreds of related results. Which wine-related smartphone apps would you recommend we try? Let’s hear them in the comments below.

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