Drinqly vs Vivino: Which Drink App Fits You?
One is the best wine app in the world. The other is built for everything in the glass, wine included.
Vivino is the go-to app for wine: scan a label, see ratings, even buy the bottle. Drinqly is a check-in journal for every drink, wine, cocktails, beer, spirits, coffee, and mocktails, in one place, with a friends feed and a sober mode. Drink mostly wine and want to scan and buy? Vivino. Drink wine plus everything else and want to remember it all? Drinqly.
If you love wine, you have probably used Vivino, and for good reason. But a lot of people who reach for a wine app do not only drink wine. They have a cocktail on Friday, a whiskey after dinner, a coffee every morning. This is an honest comparison, written by the team behind Drinqly, of what each app is actually for, so you can pick the one that matches your glass.
The one-sentence difference
Vivino is a wine app with a marketplace attached. Drinqly is a journal for every drink. Vivino went deep on one category and built the best wine database and buying experience anywhere. Drinqly went wide, treating a wine, a Negroni, a mezcal, and a matcha as equally worth logging. Different tools for different drinkers.
| Vivino | Drinqly | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Wine | Every drink, equally |
| Wine database & ratings | Best in class | Good, not wine-specialized |
| Scan a wine label | Yes | No (it's a journal, not a scanner) |
| Buy the bottle in-app | Marketplace | No (Drinqly doesn't sell drinks) |
| Cocktails, beer, spirits | No | First-class, rich details |
| Coffee, tea, mocktails (sober) | No | Full sober mode |
| Social feed | Wine community | Friends + worldwide feed |
| Your personal journal | A wine log | Every glass you pour |
Notice the rows we handed Vivino. Wine depth, label scanning, and buying bottles are genuinely theirs, and no honest comparison pretends otherwise.
Where each one wins
- Wine is your main thing
- You want to scan labels
- You want to buy bottles in-app
- You want the biggest wine database
- You drink across categories
- You want cocktails & spirits logged too
- You also drink non-alcoholic
- You want one journal, not four apps
Picture your last ten drinks. If nine were wine and you like buying bottles from your phone, Vivino is your app. If they were a mix, a couple of wines, a cocktail, a whiskey, a few coffees, that spread is exactly what Drinqly was built to hold.
The thing a wine app can't do
Here is the difference that matters most day to day. Your drinking life is not one category. You might learn a grape on Sunday, a cocktail on Friday, and a single-origin pour-over every morning, and a wine-only app can only ever hold a slice of that. Worse, the non-alcoholic side, the matcha, the zero-proof spritz, the tea, has no home in Vivino at all. Drinqly keeps every one of them in the same journal, with a full sober mode, so the wine you loved sits right next to everything else you drink.
Can you use both?
Sure, and some wine lovers do, keeping Vivino for scanning and buying bottles and a Drinqly journal for everything else they drink. There is no rule. But if you are tired of your drinking life being split across a wine app, a cocktail app, and a notes file, the point of Drinqly is that it is one place for all of it.