RateBeer Alternatives: Where to Go Now RateBeer Has Shut Down
RateBeer announced its closure in December 2024 and went offline on 3 February 2025, ending a 25-year run. If you were a RateBeer user, here's where to take your beer habit next.
What happened to RateBeer?
RateBeer announced on 18 December 2024 that it would stop operating, set an export deadline of 18 January 2025, and went fully offline on 3 February 2025 (source). Former users have reportedly still been able to request their old ratings by email.
The best RateBeer alternatives
1. Untappd
The best-known beer check-in app: scan or search a specific beer, rate it, add notes and photos, and collect badges. Huge beer database and venue menus from bars that use Untappd for Business.
- Platforms
- iPhone, Android, web · Website
- Price
- Free, with an optional paid tier (Untappd Insiders) for extra stats and badges
- Best for
- Beer geeks who want to rate every individual beer they try.
- Watch out
- Logging means finding the exact beer each time, which is slow on a night out. Less about seeing which friends are out right now.
The obvious home for ex-RateBeer users: the biggest beer database, ratings out of five and a huge community. You won't get RateBeer's style-adjusted scores, but you'll find almost every beer.
2. Pint Please
A Finnish-born beer rating app: rate beers, note where you had them and discover new ones, with brewery and pub pages.
- Platforms
- iPhone (check Google Play for Android) · Website
- Price
- Free (in-app purchases)
- Best for
- A smaller, Europe-flavoured alternative to Untappd for rating beers.
- Watch out
- Much smaller community than Untappd.
3. BeerAdvocate (website)
The other long-running review site. Its reviews and forums are still active on the web; we couldn't confirm a current app, so use it in the browser. BeerAdvocate has a page explaining RateBeer's closure.
4. ontap
Log a beer in one tap from a home or lock screen widget, with the bar you're at. See which friends are out on a shared map, race your friends in squads, earn 30+ badges and become Mayor of your local. Every month you get Last Call, a recap worth sharing.
- Platforms
- iPhone · App Store
- Price
- Free (an optional ontap Pro is coming)
- Best for
- Groups of friends who go out together and want logging to take one tap.
- Watch out
- No beer-by-beer ratings or tasting notes, and no Android app yet.
If what you really enjoyed was the record of where you'd been and what you'd had, ontap logs it in one tap and gives it back as a monthly recap, without asking you to score anything.
Bringing your history with you
If you exported your RateBeer data before it closed, keep the file: most apps can't import it directly, but it's your record. Untappd's own export sits in its Insiders tier.
ontap is the free iPhone app for logging beers in one tap and seeing which friends are out.
Get ontap free on the App StoreFAQ
Is RateBeer coming back?
There's no sign of it. The site has been offline since 3 February 2025.
Can I still get my RateBeer ratings?
BeerAdvocate's RateBeer page reports that former users who emailed after the deadline still received their old ratings.
What's the best RateBeer replacement?
Untappd for ratings and community; Pint Please if you prefer a smaller app; ontap if you'd rather log nights than rate beers.