Wine cellar apps, compared

CellarTracker costs nothing, and if budget is the deciding factor, the comparison ends there. The other thing the table shows: every app on it except CellarPals stops at wine. If half your shelf is whisky, wine-only tracking means keeping a spreadsheet on the side, and nobody keeps up a spreadsheet.

InVintory is the closest paid rival and doesn’t have its own page yet. The short of it: a beautiful visual cellar, wine only, and about twenty percent dearer than CellarPals on both plans. Prices are checked on the date shown at the foot of each page; if something’s gone stale, tell us.

One cellar for the whole shelf. Wine and spirits live in their own catalogs, every bottle tracked to its rack, shelf or box, with QR labels you can print straight to a DYMO so the bottle in your hand and the record on your phone never drift apart.

The AI earns its keep. Point the camera at a label and it reads the bottle in for you. Ask the sommelier what to open with tonight’s dinner. When you want to taste seriously, it walks you through a structured assessment the way the trade does it and files the notes against the bottle.

Then there’s the paperwork you didn’t know you wanted. Reports on the collection, exportable as PDF. A customs manifest for when you move countries with two hundred bottles. A printable drinks menu for when twelve people come to dinner. And the cellar can be shared, so the household works from one record instead of three guesses.

A cellar record is years of work, so before you commit to any of these, check what leaving looks like. Our answer: CellarPals imports from CellarTracker, and exports everything as JSON, its own CSV, or a CellarTracker-compatible CSV — so your collection can go home in the shape CellarTracker expects, not just in a file you’d have to reformat yourself. If you stop paying, your cellar goes read-only rather than away. The records are yours.

One plan with everything in it, wine and spirits both, and fourteen days free to decide.