Features
What the app actually does
Five things, and they are all in the one plan. There is no tier that unlocks the useful half.
Label scanning
Photograph a label and the bottle arrives already filled in. The entry step is where cellars go stale, so it is the one worth attacking.
The cellar map
Your actual racks, shelves, bins and diamonds, with each bottle in a specific slot at a specific depth. Not a text field reading “Rack B”.
Drinking windows
What is ready now, and what you are about to leave too long. The question most people open the app to answer.
Spirits
Whisky, bourbon, rum, gin and agave in the same cellar as the wine, with fields that suit them and reports that keep the two apart.
The Passport
A tasting journal for the bottles you own and the ones you only met once — the restaurant bottle, the dram at a friend’s table.
They are one product, not five
The reason to list them together is that they only work together. A scanned label arrives with a drinking window, which is what makes the ready-to-drink list useful on a Friday; that list is only actionable because the map knows which shelf to walk to; and when the bottle is poured, the passport keeps what you thought of it.
Spirits run through all of it rather than sitting in a side pocket, which is the part most of this category does not do at all.
The parts that are not on this list
Five pages does not mean five features. A few things earn their keep without needing a page of their own:
- Reports. Value, average rating, and the collection broken down by style, country and region — with wine and spirits kept apart, because averaging a bourbon against a Burgundy describes nothing.
- A printed drinks menu. A list for guests to choose from, which turns out to be what people actually want a cellar for.
- Bin labels. Printed straight to a DYMO, no driver and no desktop software, so the room agrees with the map.
- A sommelier. Ask for something bold for a steak and it picks from bottles you already own, rather than recommending something to go and buy.
- Export, in three formats. Including one that imports cleanly back into CellarTracker. The exit was built before it was needed.
On all three, properly
The web, iPhone and Android share one cellar, kept in sync. Not a web view in a shell — the phone apps are native, and the phone is where a cellar app is actually used: standing in front of the rack, or in a shop wondering whether you already own this.
All of it, one price
Fourteen days free, then $12.99 a month or $119.99 a year. No feature here is held back to sell you a higher tier, and everyone you invite is free.
If you are weighing this against what you already use, CellarPals vs CellarTracker is honest about where the incumbent still wins.