Cellar vs Backbar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cellar
Easily track your beer collection, organize your inventory, and share your favorite brews with friends. Keep a running list of beers you want to try and never miss out on a new discovery.
- Beer inventory management
- Collection organization
- Sharing capabilities
- Wish list tracking
- Beer discovery
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Inventory your beers and share with others. Organize and share Collections from your Cellar. Update Wish List and never forget beers you're after.
Backbar
This application streamlines bar and restaurant management by simplifying inventory counting, vendor purchasing, and menu costing. It helps reduce costs and improve efficiency for beverage programs. Features include real-time syncing across devices, barcode scanning, and integration with over 1,300 beverage suppliers.
- Real-time inventory syncing
- Barcode scanning for products
- Streamlined vendor purchasing
- Menu costing and pricing optimization
- Digital invoice management
- Staff education on beverages
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Backbar helps restaurants and bars increase profitability, decrease COGS, and run a more efficient beverage program. Backbar, the only free bar inventory app, saves hours on counting inventory and simplifies bar management. Backbar not only solves inventory management, but also streamlines vendor purchasing and tracking, menu costing, and financial tracking. Here are some of the many features of Backbar: - Quickly count inventory across many locations, devices and users, syncing in real-time - Count inventory in multiple locations and on multiple devices simultaneously - Scan barcodes to instantly find and count products - Streamline purchasing by sending orders to all your distributors with a single tap - Track past orders and invoices for all your distributors - Connect to your point-of-sale (POS) system for real-time inventory depletions - Save digital invoices easily by taking a photo - Connect to over 1,300 beverage suppliers for automated product updates and cost changes - Educate staff with tasting notes and drink information - Cost out cocktail recipes and optimize menu pricing - Quickly add a new item from our global database of over 300,000 wines, beers, spirits and other beverages Download the app today and make beverage management easier with Backbar
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cellar at none against Backbar's shown. Cellar also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). Backbar's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 33%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cellar holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 33 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Cellar's written reviews are positive against 60% of Backbar's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cellar | Backbar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (37 ratings) — better | 3.6 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Andrew Herrick | Backbar |
Customer experience
Cellar
Backbar
In-app purchases
Cellar
No in-app purchases
Backbar
No in-app purchases
