“This app has had a turbulent life - it was once brilliant and then ruined by attempts to overmonetise it, betraying reviewers who provided it with rich content. Thankfully that phase has passed - the label reader works again on the free…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 966 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★379,235 ratings
10M+Downloads
17+Age rating
260 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Vivino helps you discover, choose, and buy the right wine.
Join over 70 million wine lovers who use Vivino to scan labels, track their tastes with ratings, and buy wines directly in the app.
From casual sippers to seasoned collectors, Vivino makes it easy to explore the world of wine with millions of ratings and reviews across 16 million wines, 245,000 wineries, and over 500 shoppable merchants.
Scan, Search, and Find Your Next Favorite • Snap a photo of any wine label to unlock ratings, reviews, tasting notes, and food pairings • Scan full restaurant wine lists to quickly spot the best bottles for your taste • Search by grape, region, style, or dish – from Cabernet to Caldo Verde…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2026.39.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.39.3, updated 2026-09-28.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2026.39.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.40.1, updated 2026-09-29.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2026.39.0, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 2026.40.1 · 2026-09-29
No release notes were provided for this version.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 22 distinct reviewers (4.3% of 511 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 511 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I declined all marketing cookies yet I got flooded with wine ads on browser and fb.”
“Too many ads — Too many ads it has been ruined”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.39.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown6
Lowest$4.99
Highest$57.00
Vivino Premium$4.99
Vivino Premium$47.90
Vivino Premium$5.99
Vivino Premium$57.00
Vivino Premium 16$47.90
Show 1 more purchase
Vivino Premium$49.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.