# Vinster — Your AI Sommelier

> Your AI Sommelier (iPhone/iPad app by Hilary Green.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinster/id6763607127 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hilary Green](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895395657)
- Category: Food & Drink
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 44 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-01
- Data updated: 2026-09-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinster/id6763607127/reviews.md

## What is Vinster?

Never feel lost in front of a wine list again.
 
Vinster is your personal AI sommelier — and it begins the moment you sit down to dinner.

It starts with the list. Point your phone at any restaurant's wine list and Vinster reads it in seconds, then offers it's top three wine selections based on
your taste and your budget — each with a clear reason why. Choose one and it becomes a Bottle Pick, saved to the night and the restaurant where you found it. Over time, Your Restaurants grows into a personal map of where you've dined and what you drank, complete with your own ratings and reviews.

Next is your wines at home. Add any bottle to your cellar in-app cellar and Vinster brings it to life — capture the label and it appears as a thumbnail on your live racks and fridges, so your collection looks as good as it tastes. Every bottle has it's own AI generated wine intel card including its estimated value, critic scores, and drinking window, so you always know what's ready to open at its best. Your Label Library keeps every label you've scanned in one beautiful gallery — a visual diary of your wine journey.

The more you pour and collect, the better Vinster knows you. Every wine you pick, rate and cellar feeds your personal wine and food personality sketches — a living portrait of your palate that grows sharper with every glass. Personality sketches are witty, intelligent, original insights into your wine and foodie alter-egos which can be shared with friends.
 
Vinster doesn't stop at wine, because what would wine be without food? It's a culinary journey too. Tell Vinster what you're cooking and Chef pairs the perfect wine to the dish — drawing first from the bottles already in your cellar, then from the wider world, always at the price you want to spend. Chosen your bottle first? Open with a bottle in mind and Chef builds the meal around it based on your dietary requirements, preferences, and even the size of your party.
 
Capture every moment, effortlessly. Dictate your tasting notes by voice the instant you taste them — no typing — and build a personal tasting diary, wine by wine. Keep your reviews private, or share them with the Vinster community to discover what other wine lovers are drinking, and where.
 
From the first scan of a wine list to the last note of a great bottle, Vinster connects every part of your vinous life - restaurant, cellar, kitchen and palate- into one effortless flow.

No jargon. No snobbery. Just informed choices, made for you.
 
 Pour with confidence. Cheers.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.2 — 2026-08-30

Sharper scanning
  • Scan a label for instant, accurate intel — critic scores, tasting notes, drinking windows and today's value — now grounded in Vinster's own catalogue so the details are reliable, not guessed.
  • Producer ranges show a wine's whole line-up, entry to flagship — including the Rosso di Montalcino for Brunello estates.

  A much bigger cellar of knowledge
  • Thousands of new wines added, from the classics to niche producers and off-beat regions.

  Find the right bottle out to dinner
  • Scan a restaurant's wine list and set a budget range — Vinster recommends what to order.
  • Scan a lineup straight from the camera to add bottles fast.

  Your reviews, in one place
  • Wine and restaurant reviews now live together, with a photo of the night on every restaurant visit.
  • Reviewing a cellar wine uses the exact same flow as everything else — no more separate forms.

  A tidier cellar
  • A clearer archive with a proper "Add to Archive" flow, smarter bottle counts, and folders that read the way you'd expect.

  Plus dozens of refinements across the app.

  Pour something good.

### 1.3.9 — 2026-08-20

• Faster, more reliable wine-list scans
  • Redesigned Review, Pair and Share tabs, with a cleaner home screen
  • Producer "range" now stable and tappable — see the inside line on any wine
  • Richer wine reviews: tap-to-zoom photos, restaurant photos on cards, easier editing
  • Reworked Label Library
  • Lots of fixes — review status, menu prices, and more

### 1.3.5 — 2026-08-14

Faster, steadier wine-list scans, and a cleaner way to keep your reviews.
  
  • Quicker, more reliable wine-list and label scanning
  • Redesigned wine reviews — tidier cards, faster to log, and editable whenever you like
  • Vinster's Review now appears the moment you want it, and is saved for next time
  • Smoother Dine and Cellar navigation, with clearer sections
  • A fresh look on the results screen, plus plenty of fixes and polish
 
    Chin-chin!

### 1.3.3 — 2026-08-04

Improved connection between wine reviews, cellar wines, and image libraries. Bugs fixed across the wine list scan feature.

### 1.3.0 — 2026-07-28

This update makes building and browsing your cellar faster and smarter:

• Import from Excel — bring your cellar across from an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx), a CSV, Vivino or CellarTracker. Vinster reads your columns wherever they sit, as long as the top row names them.

• Smarter label scanning — when a label is hard to read, or a producer makes several similar wines, Vinster now offers a shortlist of bottlings so you can pick the exact one.

• Predictive wine search — start typing when adding a wine by hand and Vinster suggests real matches to fill in the details.

• Better wine bins — diamond storage now shows label thumbnails, is quicker to move around, and makes entering bottle counts simpler.

• Add a Lineup — scan several bottles straight into a rack in one go.

• Reworked Wine Reviews — switch between your restaurant, cellar and other reviews, filter by month, and create your own tasting tags.

• Always-on intel — critic scores and estimated values now generate automatically whenever you open a wine.

Plus a range of refinements and fixes throughout. Cheers!

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