"Best wine cellar app" has no single answer, because wine apps solve three different problems that get compared as if they were one:
- Discover and buy — which bottle to take off the supermarket shelf or order from a restaurant list.
- Record and remember — what you drank, how much you liked it, what you paid.
- Organise what is at home — how many bottles, where each one sits, when to open it.
An app that is excellent at the first can be weak at the third, which is exactly what happens with the market leader. So the comparison below separates price, free tier and features instead of handing out an overall score.
The comparison table
| App | Paid plan | Free tier | 3D cellar | Augmented reality | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WineCellarApp | $2.99/mo · $24.99/yr | 10 wines | Yes, in the free plan | Yes | iOS and Android |
| Vivino | $4.99/mo · $49.99/yr | Capped (number not published) | No | No | iOS and Android |
| CellarTracker | $40 to $500/yr, by cellar size | Unlimited inventory; paid features on top | No | No | iOS and Android |
| InVintory | Premium $149.99/yr; Elite on request | Unlimited bottles | Premium only | No | iOS and Android |
| Cellared | Pro $7.99/mo · $79/yr — Collector $15.99/mo · $149/yr | Unlimited bottles | Collector only | No | iOS |
| Delectable | Premium $5.99/mo | Free, ads supported | No | No | iOS and Android |
Prices checked in September 2026 on official pages and app stores. Subscription pricing changes without notice and varies by country — confirm in the store before subscribing to any of them, including ours.
Rather try it than read the whole comparison?
WineCellarApp is free for up to 10 wines, with the 3D cellar and augmented reality included. Five minutes is enough to form an opinion.
The six apps, one by one
Vivino — best for discovering and buying
$4.99/mo · $49.99/yrThe biggest in the world: somewhere around 60 to 65 million users and 16 million wines catalogued. If your question is "is this bottle any good?", its answer is the most reliable on the market, because it comes from millions of real ratings.
- A wine database and rating volume nobody else has
- Restaurant wine list scanner that ranks the list by score
- Decisions made on the spot, in the shop or at the table
- Cellar management is a secondary feature, and the free plan caps its size
- No drinking window methodology — it will not tell you when to open
- Recurring complaints about data quality and about billing after the trial period
Using Vivino and want to track the cellar at home? See what changes in an app built for the cellar.
CellarTracker — the most complete for a large collection
Free inventory · subscription $40 to $500/yrMore than 20 years old, with roughly 13 million community tasting notes. This is the app for people with hundreds of bottles who want price history, bulk editing and full export.
- A community tasting note archive with no equal
- Price history, bulk editing and data export
- Handles a large cellar without choking on data entry
- Market pricing, cellar valuation and the AI tools sit behind a subscription that rises with the size of your collection
- The mobile experience is weak — the app is essentially the desktop site wrapped
- Recurring complaints about speed
InVintory — the collector's premium option
Premium $149.99/yr · Elite on requestThe most polished on the list, rated 4.8 with more than 4,000 reviews. It has a 3D cellar (VinLocate), an AI that recommends from your own collection, market valuation and, on the top tier, temperature and humidity sensor integration.
- A mature 3D cellar with bottle location
- AI that recommends from what you own, not from the whole catalogue
- Temperature and humidity sensors on the highest tier
- $149.99 a year is the most expensive published price here
- Much of the appeal, including the 3D cellar, sits behind the paid plan
Cellared — built around the drinking window
Pro $79/yr · Collector $149/yrThe newest of the group, and the one most focused on when to drink: calibrated drinking windows, a peak calendar, a palate profile and cellar valuation. The 3D Cellar Map sits in the top tier.
- Calibrated drinking windows and a peak calendar, which is its whole thesis
- Unlimited bottles on the free tier
- Sommelier that reasons over your cellar, on the Pro tier
- The 3D Cellar Map is Collector only, at $149/yr
- No community archive and no discovery side
- iOS only
Delectable — the tasting journal
Free · Premium $5.99/moA clean, curated feed built around reviews from verified sommeliers and wine professionals, now under the same roof as CellarTracker. Premium adds fully integrated Vinous reviews and priority label transcription.
- Ratings from verified professionals rather than the general public
- Clean interface and a good label scanner
- Free price check sourced from global listings
- Built as a tasting journal, not as inventory — weak for a large cellar
- No drinking window methodology
WineCellarApp — 3D and AR without charging for them
Free up to 10 wines · Premium $2.99/mo or $24.99/yrThis is ours. It was built around the home cellar: you photograph the label, the wine lands in your cellar, and that cellar exists in 3D and in augmented reality at no extra cost. The AI sommelier answers from the bottles you actually own — not from the whole catalogue.
- +11kwines catalogued
- +3kproducers
- +400grapes described
- +200paired recipes
- 3D cellar and augmented reality included in the free plan
- Camera label scanning with an explicit fallback when it misses
- AI sommelier that reads your cellar
- The lowest paid price in this comparison, by a wide margin
- 10 wines on the free plan — the most restrictive here
- No community and no ratings from other users
- The AI sommelier runs on credit packs rather than unlimited use
- No barcode scanning yet
- No market valuation of the collection
Verdict: which to pick for each use
You want to decide what to buy, in a shop or a restaurant.
Vivino. Nothing matches its database and rating volume, and the list scanner settles dinner.
You have hundreds of bottles and take the record seriously.
CellarTracker, accepting that the mobile app is uncomfortable. Nothing else has that tasting note archive
or that export.
You care most about when to drink each bottle.
Cellared, which is built entirely around that question — if you are on iOS.
You want the collection tracked as an asset, with market value.
InVintory, if you are willing to pay $149.99 a year.
You want to organise the cellar at home, see where each bottle sits, and not pay for
it.
WineCellarApp. It is the only one that includes 3D and augmented reality in the free plan — as long as 10
wines covers you, or paying $24.99 a year afterwards is worth it.
What almost none of them deliver: 3D and AR
A 3D cellar stops being decoration once a collection passes a few dozen bottles: it is what answers "where is that 2019 Malbec" without pulling bottles off the shelf. Of the six apps, three have it — InVintory, Cellared and WineCellarApp — and two charge for it: $149.99 a year in InVintory Premium, $149 a year in the Cellared Collector tier.
Augmented reality, which projects your cellar into the room through the phone camera, is offered by none of the other five. It is the hardest feature to find in any wine app today, and in WineCellarApp it is in the free plan.
Where WineCellarApp loses
A comparison written by one of the compared is only worth something if it says this too:
- The free plan is the most restrictive here. Ten wines, while CellarTracker, InVintory, Cellared and Delectable place no cap on how many bottles you can log. If your cellar is already past a dozen bottles, you will hit that quickly.
- There is no community. You cannot see what other people rated a wine, because that database does not exist here. If you choose wine by community average, you will not find it.
- The AI sommelier runs on credits. Packs start at $1.99. Cellared and InVintory include their AI in the subscription instead.
- No barcode scanning, and no market valuation of the collection, which InVintory, Cellared and CellarTracker all provide.
- No drinking window methodology of the kind Cellared is built around.
If any one of those is decisive for you, one of the other five is the better pick. Better to find that out now than after logging fifty bottles.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best wine cellar app?
There is no single best one, because these apps solve different problems. For discovering and buying wine, Vivino has the largest database and the largest community. For a big collection with tasting history and price records, CellarTracker is the most complete. For organising a home cellar with a 3D view without paying extra for it, WineCellarApp includes the 3D cellar and augmented reality in its free plan.
Is there a free wine cellar app?
Yes, though most of them limit something. CellarTracker keeps inventory and community tasting notes free and charges from $40 to $500 a year depending on cellar size for pricing and valuation features. Cellared and InVintory both allow unlimited bottles on the free tier but keep their headline features on paid plans. Delectable is free with a $5.99 a month premium tier. WineCellarApp is free for up to 10 wines, and its 3D cellar and augmented reality are included at that level.
Which wine app has a 3D cellar?
Three of the apps compared here do, and two of them charge for it. InVintory puts its 3D cellar in Premium at $149.99 a year, and Cellared puts its 3D Cellar Map in the Collector tier at $149 a year. WineCellarApp includes the 3D cellar in the free plan. Augmented reality, which projects your cellar into the room through the camera, is not offered by any of the other five.
Can Vivino manage a wine cellar?
It can, but it is not what it does best. Vivino was built for discovering and buying wine, and cellar management is a secondary feature: the free plan caps the size of your cellar without publishing the number, and there is no drinking window methodology telling you when each bottle is ready. Using Vivino to decide what to buy and a dedicated app to track what you already own means using each for what it was built to do.
Which app scans wine labels with the camera?
Vivino, Delectable and WineCellarApp all identify a wine from a photo of the label. No scanner is right every time, especially with stylised typefaces or labels in less common languages, and what separates them is what happens when the scan misses: WineCellarApp offers an explicit way out, with a search by name and manual entry, instead of leaving the wrong wine saved in your cellar.
Start with your own cellar
Photograph the label, watch the bottle land in your 3D cellar and ask the AI sommelier what to open tonight. Free for up to 10 wines, on iPhone and Android.
Comparison published on 18 September 2026 by Murilo Naves Borges, who builds WineCellarApp. Competitor pricing, limits and features taken from their official pages and app store listings in September 2026. Found something out of date? Tell us at contato@winecellarapp.com.br.