Point. Shoot. Cataloged.

Almost nobody abandons a cellar app because it lacked a feature. They abandon it because entering the eleventh bottle by hand on a Sunday evening is a chore, and once the record is a week behind it is easier to stop than to catch up.

So the entry step is the one worth attacking. A case of twelve is twelve photographs, not twelve forms.

The label is read and matched, and what it can determine it fills:

• Producer and cuvée, separated properly rather than mashed into one name field.
• Vintage, region and country, and the grape blend with percentages where the label carries them.
• ABV and bottle size.
• A drinking window, so the bottle is useful to drinking windows from the moment it lands rather than after you research it.

Spirits work the same way, with the fields that suit them — distillery, category, age statement. See spirits tracking.

Worth saying plainly, because every app in this category implies otherwise. A creased label, an unusual cuvée or a small producer will produce a miss, and a confident wrong answer is worse than an obvious blank.

So the result arrives as a draft you confirm, not a record already written. Every field is editable before anything is saved, the bottle photograph is kept alongside it, and nothing enters your cellar without you looking at it. Reviewing a filled form takes a few seconds; typing an empty one takes a few minutes.

The picture you took is not thrown away once the fields are read. It becomes the bottle’s image in your cellar, which turns out to matter more than it sounds: a list of a few hundred wines is far quicker to scan by label than by name, and the photograph is of your bottle rather than a stock shot of a different vintage.

It also settles arguments. When two bottlings share a name, or a label changed between vintages, the photograph is the record of what you actually have.

Scanning is the fast path, not the only one. Adding a wine or a spirit by hand is a first-class route, not a fallback buried behind a failed scan — which matters for the bottle with no label left on it, the en-primeur case that has not arrived, or the one you are recording from an invoice.

You can also scan first and correct heavily. The draft is just a starting point, and there is no penalty for rewriting most of it.

Cellars usually grow in cases rather than singles, so scanning is built for a run: photograph the whole delivery, review the batch together, and place them on the cellar map in one pass. The slow part of a wine delivery should be carrying it down the stairs.

Fourteen days free, no card. One plan with everything in it, afterwards — $12.99 a month or $119.99 a year.

Begin — 14 days free

• The cellar map — Racks, bins, and every bottle in its place.
• Drinking windows — Know what to pour, and when.
• All features — the whole list.