Uncork these wine apps when you're lost in the wine aisle. Top 10 Free Wine Apps. By Lindsey Grossman. I don’t know about the best things in life, but the best wine apps in life are free. “The Essential Wine App” — James Beard award winner Jordan Mackay Take a photo of a wine label and instantly get ratings and descriptions with Delectable, the critically-acclaimed free app that helps you get access to the world's best wine.
“The Essential Wine App” — James Beard award winner Jordan Mackay Take a photo of a wine label and instantly get ratings and descriptions with Delectable, the critically-acclaimed free app that helps you get access to the world's best wine. Keep track of your favorites and learn more about wine by following the world's leading winemakers, sommeliers and wine critics.
Buy wines you love from your phone. And all this works for beer and spirits too! Get wine info even quicker: Use 3D Touch to scan or search for wines straight from your homescreen. If you only have a moment between sips, you can press the Delectable app icon to scan or search a wine quickly without having to open the app first. Check out our new app Banquet! Buy wine from the best wine retailers in the US and have it delivered to your door. Visit shopbanquet.com to download.
If you’re having fun with Delectable, please rate the app to let others know what you think. 5.4 Aug 3, 2015. Custom Categories: See more of the wine you love! Tap the search bar to create a Custom Category for each type of wine you're interested in. Try searching for Pinot Noir, Croatian whites, or budget-friendly reds.
Pin the results to your home screen— your Custom Categories update automatically with new wines, so you can always see what's new in your favorite categories. Unified Search: Now you can search for wines, people, and even tasting notes all in one place. Try searching for “pizza” to find great pizza pairings. This release also includes design and performance improvements. If you’re having fun with Delectable, please rate the app to let others know what you think. 5.1 Apr 13, 2015.
Trending wines: See what wines are making the biggest splash in the new Trending feed. Pro badges: The Delectable community features thousands of wine pros, and new profile badges make them even easier to find. Faster scanning: We’re continuously working on delivering the most reliable wine label recognition.
The wine profile will now be displayed right away so you can get to the information more quickly - just don’t forget to rate the wines you scan. Purchase flow redesign: It’s now easier to purchase back vintages of wine (and to know which back vintages to buy).
Delectable is now optimized for iOS 8, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. If you’re having fun with Delectable, please rate the app to let others know what you think. 4.0.3 Sep 30, 2014. Reviewernla, Put my private data online along with my full name and picture If you want to use this app, do so at your own risk— do not assume they will behave with professionalism or integrity. Delectable developed an online store to sell wine. After several years of using this app, they began to use my notes, alongside my full name and picture.
I had, by then, amassed a large library of wines that included not only my own thoughts and judgements about wines but also personal notes— on what occasions I’d drank wines, with whom, what we’d done. To opt individual wines out of this process, you needed to individually mark each wine as private— they provided no default status for a user’s entire account and there was no option to go back and mark older wines as private. Changing my name in the profile also did not fix this problem. I was horrified to learn that, if someone googled me, these hits created the first ten or so pages of a google search history— overwhelming any pages related to my career in the non-profit industry, creating issues of trust and doubts about my professionalism for my clients.
My first few requests to take this down were ignored. Eventually they took most of them down, but it took months. Developer Response, We take privacy of your data very seriously. We do not collect any personal data, other than your email, which is required to set up an account, and we certainly do not post that publicly. We are happy to address any of your concerns directly as well. Please send us an email at [email protected] and we will get back to you promptly. The reviews you post on Delectable are searchable in the same way that is true of any content you post on an open account on other social media platforms such as Facebook or Instagram.
Giving you controls over your posts is important to us, which is why you can make any review/rating private at any time: 1) If you are posting your comment about a wine, make it private by tapping the padlock icon before pressing 'Submit'. The padlock icon will lock, become red and include the message that your wine is 'Private to you'. This means that your comment, including any review and rating, will only be visible to you in your profile. It will not appear publicly anywhere on Delectable. Please note also that if the padlock has been selected when you post one review, then the padlock button also remains selected for your next wine. In other words, choose to make a wine review private once and all posts will be private thereafter unless you actively choose to make a post public.
2) If you posted a wine publicly, it's certainly not too late to make it private, should you prefer: go to your profile, navigate to the wine you want to make private, tap the ellipsis button to pull up the menu, select Edit and then Make Private. As before, your review/rating will only be visible to you in your profile and will not appear publicly anywhere on Delectable. We are of course happy to help if for any reason these approaches to make your reviews/ratings completely private aren't satisfactory. Please feel free to reach out to us and we will take care of it in any way possible. Thank you for using Delectable. Reviewernla, Put my private data online along with my full name and picture If you want to use this app, do so at your own risk— do not assume they will behave with professionalism or integrity. Delectable developed an online store to sell wine.
After several years of using this app, they began to use my notes, alongside my full name and picture. I had, by then, amassed a large library of wines that included not only my own thoughts and judgements about wines but also personal notes— on what occasions I’d drank wines, with whom, what we’d done. To opt individual wines out of this process, you needed to individually mark each wine as private— they provided no default status for a user’s entire account and there was no option to go back and mark older wines as private. Changing my name in the profile also did not fix this problem. I was horrified to learn that, if someone googled me, these hits created the first ten or so pages of a google search history— overwhelming any pages related to my career in the non-profit industry, creating issues of trust and doubts about my professionalism for my clients. My first few requests to take this down were ignored. Eventually they took most of them down, but it took months.
Developer Response, We take privacy of your data very seriously. We do not collect any personal data, other than your email, which is required to set up an account, and we certainly do not post that publicly. We are happy to address any of your concerns directly as well. Please send us an email at [email protected] and we will get back to you promptly. The reviews you post on Delectable are searchable in the same way that is true of any content you post on an open account on other social media platforms such as Facebook or Instagram. Giving you controls over your posts is important to us, which is why you can make any review/rating private at any time: 1) If you are posting your comment about a wine, make it private by tapping the padlock icon before pressing 'Submit'. The padlock icon will lock, become red and include the message that your wine is 'Private to you'.
This means that your comment, including any review and rating, will only be visible to you in your profile. It will not appear publicly anywhere on Delectable.
Please note also that if the padlock has been selected when you post one review, then the padlock button also remains selected for your next wine. In other words, choose to make a wine review private once and all posts will be private thereafter unless you actively choose to make a post public. 2) If you posted a wine publicly, it's certainly not too late to make it private, should you prefer: go to your profile, navigate to the wine you want to make private, tap the ellipsis button to pull up the menu, select Edit and then Make Private. As before, your review/rating will only be visible to you in your profile and will not appear publicly anywhere on Delectable. We are of course happy to help if for any reason these approaches to make your reviews/ratings completely private aren't satisfactory. Please feel free to reach out to us and we will take care of it in any way possible. Thank you for using Delectable.
Grumpy Old Hepcat, Doesn’t work as well as I would hope. On the plus side, the interface is nice and it’s easy to snap a picture of the bottle label. I’d like to see a bit of image processing to “flatten” the label to make it more readable. There’s no real organization options for the wines you’ve snapped and rated. A lot of the time the auto-identify doesn’t really work; it gives me similar wines by the same producer, but not what I’ve snapped.
It means I have to manually edit the wine identity way more than I’d like. The estimated price is a nice feature when it works. However my biggest complaint is that I’d really like to be able to find a place to buy the wines I discover, but Delectable almost never can find a supplier. I end up having to use google to find somewhere to buy the wine.
It would be good to be able to “follow” a favorite wine for deals or sales. I really wanted to like this app but I ended up just using it less and less over the years. Developer Response, Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to share a review of Delectable and pass on your helpful feedback. When uploading a photo to create an entry you can always reject the automatic match that is generated if it is incorrect and either have the label identified by our team or search for it manually. As labels for different vintages or wines of the same producer are often identical, save one digit or word, it can be tricky to distinguish. We are working hard at onboarding more retailers to bring you more choices, and in the meantime check out shopbanquet.com for great results from top, trusted retailers.
Always glad to hear comments and feedback at [email protected]. Grumpy Old Hepcat, Doesn’t work as well as I would hope. On the plus side, the interface is nice and it’s easy to snap a picture of the bottle label. I’d like to see a bit of image processing to “flatten” the label to make it more readable. There’s no real organization options for the wines you’ve snapped and rated.
A lot of the time the auto-identify doesn’t really work; it gives me similar wines by the same producer, but not what I’ve snapped. It means I have to manually edit the wine identity way more than I’d like. The estimated price is a nice feature when it works. However my biggest complaint is that I’d really like to be able to find a place to buy the wines I discover, but Delectable almost never can find a supplier. I end up having to use google to find somewhere to buy the wine.
It would be good to be able to “follow” a favorite wine for deals or sales. I really wanted to like this app but I ended up just using it less and less over the years. Developer Response, Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to share a review of Delectable and pass on your helpful feedback.
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When uploading a photo to create an entry you can always reject the automatic match that is generated if it is incorrect and either have the label identified by our team or search for it manually. As labels for different vintages or wines of the same producer are often identical, save one digit or word, it can be tricky to distinguish. We are working hard at onboarding more retailers to bring you more choices, and in the meantime check out shopbanquet.com for great results from top, trusted retailers. Always glad to hear comments and feedback at [email protected]. Justaguy12345, Can’t search un-rated wines As far as I can tell, if I don’t rate the wine, it doesn’t come up in my search results.
That makes the app very unhelpful when I’m just trying to see if I’ve actually had the wine before (regardless of whether I rated it or not or have my own tasting notes or not). For the developer response - that’s not true. I show something like 182 wines. But when I click on the number of wines, only about 15 come up.
I don’t know what is meant by “completely published your post”. All I know is that not all the wines I’ve saved are searchable.
Which makes this app almost useless. And now it’s unintuitive as well since apparently I have to “completely publish” my post for it to be visible. What does that even mean? Developer Response, Updated Response- Hi again, thanks for following up. Once you take a photo and confirm yes when asked, 'Is this correct?'
The wine appears in your profile, but isn't fully added or searchable within your wines. This feature is set up this way so you can take several photos in succession (say while shopping) if you want to compare notes, scores, etc, but not actually add those wines to your profile. To 'completely publish your post' you have to click 'Add Your Rating', even if you don't want to add a score or tasting note. Simply leave the comment box blank and click 'Submit'. This will add the wine to your profile and allow it to be searched within your wines. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or account details so we can better assist you.
Best, Maria Hi there, thank you for taking the time to share a review of Delectable and offer your feedback. As long as you've completely published the post you will still see it in your wines. On your profile, click on the number of wines listed in your profile to bring up a complete list. Here you can search through all of your posts, even if there is no rating or review. As always, feel free to reach out to [email protected] with any questions or suggestions. Cheers, Maria.
Justaguy12345, Can’t search un-rated wines As far as I can tell, if I don’t rate the wine, it doesn’t come up in my search results. That makes the app very unhelpful when I’m just trying to see if I’ve actually had the wine before (regardless of whether I rated it or not or have my own tasting notes or not). For the developer response - that’s not true.
I show something like 182 wines. But when I click on the number of wines, only about 15 come up. I don’t know what is meant by “completely published your post”. All I know is that not all the wines I’ve saved are searchable. Which makes this app almost useless. And now it’s unintuitive as well since apparently I have to “completely publish” my post for it to be visible. What does that even mean?
Developer Response, Updated Response- Hi again, thanks for following up. Once you take a photo and confirm yes when asked, 'Is this correct?' The wine appears in your profile, but isn't fully added or searchable within your wines.
This feature is set up this way so you can take several photos in succession (say while shopping) if you want to compare notes, scores, etc, but not actually add those wines to your profile. To 'completely publish your post' you have to click 'Add Your Rating', even if you don't want to add a score or tasting note.
Simply leave the comment box blank and click 'Submit'. This will add the wine to your profile and allow it to be searched within your wines. Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or account details so we can better assist you. Best, Maria Hi there, thank you for taking the time to share a review of Delectable and offer your feedback. As long as you've completely published the post you will still see it in your wines.
On your profile, click on the number of wines listed in your profile to bring up a complete list. Here you can search through all of your posts, even if there is no rating or review. As always, feel free to reach out to [email protected] with any questions or suggestions.
Cheers, Maria.
Virtual Machines We recommend using a virtual machine program, ideally or, to run Windows applications on a Mac without rebooting. For maximum performance, which is particularly necessary for gaming, we recommend instead. A is one of the best ways to run Windows desktop software. They allow you to install Windows and other operating systems in a window on your Mac desktop. Windows will think it’s running on a real computer, but it’s actually running inside a piece of software on your Mac. You don’t have to use your Windows program in the virtual machine window, either—many virtual machine programs allow you to so they can appear on your Mac desktop.
However, they’re still running inside the virtual machine in the background. You’ll need a Windows license to install Windows in a virtual machine. If you already have a product key, you can download and install it in a virtual machine program. RELATED: Popular virtual machine programs for Mac include.
Each of these is a paid program, so you’ll have to buy both a Windows license and a copy of your virtual machine program of choice. You can also use the completely free and open-source, but its 3D graphics support and Mac operating system integration aren’t as good. Parallels and VMWare Fusion both, so you can try all these programs and decide which is best for you. Note: We don’t often recommend paid software, but in the case of, it’s something we use at How-To Geek every single day for testing software and running Windows.
The integration with macOS is amazingly well done, and the speed blows away VirtualBox. In the long run, the price is well worth it. There’s one big downside to virtual machines: 3D graphics performance isn’t amazing, so this isn’t the best way to run Windows games on your Mac. Yes, it can work—especially with older games—but you won’t get the best performance, even in an ideal situation.
Many games, especially newer ones, will be unplayable. That’s where the next option comes into play. Boot Camp RELATED: Apple’s allows you to.
Only one operating system can be running at a time, so you’ll have to restart your Mac to switch between macOS and Windows. If you’ve ever, it’s just like that. Installing Windows as a real operating system on your Mac is the best idea if you want to play Windows games or use demanding applications that need all the performance they can get. When you install Windows on your Mac, you’ll be able to use Windows and Windows applications with the maximum possible performance. Your Mac will perform as well as a Windows PC with the same specifications. The downside here is that you can’t run macOS applications and Windows applications side-by-side at the same time. If you just want to run a Windows desktop application alongside your Mac applications, a virtual machine will probably be ideal.
On the other hand, if you want to play the latest Windows games on your Mac, Boot Camp will be ideal. As with virtual machines, you’ll need a Windows license to install Windows on your Mac.
Wine RELATED: Wine originated on. It’s a compatibility layer that allows Windows applications to run on other operating systems. Essentially, Wine is an attempt to rewrite the Windows code that applications depend on so they can run on other operating systems. This means that Wine is nowhere near perfect. It won’t run every Windows application, and will have bugs with many of them. The can give you some idea of which applications are supported, although it focuses on Linux support. Nevertheless, Wine is one way to try running Windows applications on a Mac.
Because it doesn’t require you actually use Windows, you don’t need a Windows license to use Wine. It’s completely free.
CrossOver Mac is a paid application that will run Windows programs on Mac. It uses the open-source Wine code to accomplish this, but CrossOver provides a nice graphical interface and focuses on officially supporting popular programs.
If an officially supported program doesn’t work, you can contact CodeWeavers and expect them to make it work for you. CodeWeavers contributes their improvements back to the open-source Wine project, so paying for CrossOver Mac also helps the Wine project itself.
CrossOver offers a free trial it you want to try it out first. You can also before buying. While CrossOver focuses on compatibility, it’s still based on Wine, and won’t work with everything. Most people will probably be happiest going for a virtual machine program and a Windows license. With CrossOver, you don’t need to run a Windows virtual machine—but, if you do run a Windows virtual machine, you’ll be able to run almost any Windows program with less risk of bugs.
CrossOver does theoretically allow you to run Windows PC games on a Mac with better performance than you’d get in a virtual machine, but you’ll risk running into bugs and unsupported programs. Boot Camp may still be a better solution for that. Remote Desktop RELATED: If you already have a Windows system, you could skip running Windows software on your Mac completely and to access the Windows machine from your Mac’s desktop.
Organizations with business software that runs on Windows can host Windows servers and make their applications available to Macs, Chromebooks, Linux PCs, iPads, Android tablet, and other devices. If you’re just a home user who also has a Windows PC, you could configure that Windows PC for remote access and connect to it whenever you need a Windows application. Bear in mind that this isn’t ideal for visually intensive applications like PC games.
If you’re a Chrome user, you can even to connect to a Windows PC running Chrome from your Mac running Chrome. All these tricks obviously require more work than simply installing a Windows program on a Windows PC. If you have a Mac, you should focus on using Mac software when possible. Windows programs won’t be as integrated or work as well. You may have to buy a Windows license for your Mac to get the best compatibility, whether you’re using a virtual machine or installing Windows in Boot Camp. Wine and CrossOver are nice ideas, but they aren’t perfect. Image Credit.