App crashes, freezes, and technical bugs.
Across 3,004 reviews of the 21 biggest alcohol & drinking apps: Technical instability and feature paywalls frustrate users more than poor support or signup problems.
3,004 reviews · 21 apps · 73 complaints · as of August 5, 2026
“Stop attempting multiple sizes and quantities of patches and just FIX IT! Worry about making it work correctly, before adding/changing things that don’t have to do with the app’s functionality! Everything used to run…”
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Star ratings are Apple’s lifetime averages across every rating ever left. Negative shares are counted from the reviews in our corpus — windows vary per app.
Every complaint, ranked.
Shares of 73 counted complaints. Tap a row for the reviews behind it. Each row carries a representative review — tap one for the rest.
“Stop attempting multiple sizes and quantities of patches and just FIX IT! Worry about making it work correctly, before adding/changing things that don’t have to do with the app’s functionality! Everything used to run smooth 95% of the time…..EXCEPT for the ID Verification Scanner (A 3rd Party service anyway). Ever since the issues with ID Verification were roughly 90% resolved…it’s been 1 thing …”7NOW: Food & Drinks Delivery
“It’s rare that an update actually makes an app LESS useful. It’s even stranger when the developer goes out of their way to remove a feature instead of just leaving well enough alone. The latest update reduces the ability to set a search radius - used to be you could choose 5, 10, 20, whatever miles - and instead only allows two options, in state only or “near me” which sets a hard radius of 50 mil…”Wine-Searcher
“(4 comments here, newest at bottom.) But pretty rough at this stage. Search brings back totally irrelevant results, unless I'm just not intuitive enough to figure out your brand of intuition. I applaud the effort, and hope development continues. THANKS!! 05JAN18. Much better, now that I've figured out a few things. Distiller is my go-to app when I'm looking for something new or a little different,…”Distiller - Liquor Reviews
“I have been a paying customer of the freeware since 2006 and have found it very functional, if not elegant. Had high hopes for the new app now that they are making everyone pay, but have found it frustratingly worse than the old app on some basic functionality. A few examples: - the Consumption Note used to auto-populate when you started typing with previously used content, so you could quickly f…”CellarTracker: #1 Wine Tracker
“If you have a phone number not in the list of countries they provide, forget about using this app. No way to switch to email, and the US isn’t available, so if you’re American, or even Canadian, you’re out. Currently attempting to get an ESIM with a UK number just to get the verification code to be able to use the app. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to go to the bar to order your feed and drinks…”Young's - On Tap
“(4 comments here, newest at bottom.) But pretty rough at this stage. Search brings back totally irrelevant results, unless I'm just not intuitive enough to figure out your brand of intuition. I applaud the effort, and hope development continues. THANKS!! 05JAN18. Much better, now that I've figured out a few things. Distiller is my go-to app when I'm looking for something new or a little different,…”Distiller - Liquor Reviews
“Update: once Reframe figured out the Apple hide my email issue. Several days later all of my data, over 250 days worth, completely vanished. 250 days of work on this app completely gone! Tech-support had no answer for it other than we’re looking into it. Scary that they want us to be our most vulnerable selves on a platform that obviously has holes in their data retention and security! I just bou…”Reframe: Drink Less & Thrive
This is the what. The Deep Report is the why.
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The #1 counted gap
Sync & data runs 5.8% of this shelf’s negatives vs 2.2% typical, present in 9 of 14 apps.
+ 10 more gaps, ranked, inside.
Rival by rival
Owns: Largest reach; bill-negotiation hook
Exposed: Billing fraud perception ('billing every three weeks'); inaccurate sync; no Zelle/CashApp
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7 rivals read this way inside — owned ground and exposed flank, each.
Root causes behind each complaint, which competitor has already solved it, and whether the gap in alcohol & drinking apps is still open — the part a model can’t reconstruct.
Frequently asked
What do users complain about most in alcohol & drinking apps?
The most common complaint is "App crashes, freezes, and technical bugs" — 27% of analyzed complaints across 21 apps.
How many reviews did App Imp analyze for alcohol & drinking apps?
3,004 real App Store reviews across 21 apps — frequency-ranked and counted, never estimated.
What are the top complaints in alcohol & drinking apps?
1. App crashes, freezes, and technical bugs (27%); 2. Missing or paywall-locked features (25%); 3. Poor customer support and unresponsive developers (15%); 4. App redesign made it less intuitive and harder to use (11%); 5. Account signup fails with phone number issue (8%).
Other counted categories
Every figure above is counted from real, public App Store reviews — never estimated, never LLM-invented. 3,004 reviews across 21 alcohol & drinking apps.