Comparison

MyWineGuide vs CELLR

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MyWineGuide

Discover wines tailored to your taste, budget, and food pairings. Explore extensive wine lists from thousands of restaurants and retailers, and learn why certain wines match your preferences. This app de-mystifies wine selection and helps you expand your palate.

Highlights
  • Personalized wine recommendations
  • Food and wine pairing suggestions
  • Extensive restaurant and retailer wine lists
  • Wine preference profile creation
  • Wine rating and tracking
  • Introduction to new wines and regions
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Wine should not be mysterious nor hard. Whether you are an aspiring beginner or a casual wine lover, My Wine Guide® helps you find and select wines you’ll like; wines that match your: a) personal preferences, and taste, b) occasion, c) budget, and, d) pair with your food. No jargon, experts or scanning. Your local restaurants, favorite retailers, both local and on-line, are already in My Wine Guide. And not just a few wines; the entire wine lists and inventories at over 7,000 restaurants and retailers. No need to wait and hope for a successful scan. The instant you select a restaurant or retailer you get your best matches. And not just more of the same wines you know you already. My Wine Guide’s Diversity Algothim introduces you to new wines, varietals and regions from around the world. Start your wine journey with My Wine Guide today and never look back. Learn about and understand Your Preferences My Wine Guide does a lot more than just recommend your best matches. We help you understand why your preferences – your palate – leads you to certain wines. My Wine Guide helps you develop a growing and ever expanding interest in and appreciation for wines around the world. For each wine, My Wine Guide explains why the wine is a match of a certain percentage for you personally. My Wine Guide is the only wine app that does this. My Wine Guide De-mystifies Wine and Food Pairing My Wine Guide does this in two ways. First, our participating partner restaurants provide food and wine pairing suggestions for each of their menu items and wines. You can start with a wine and see the suggested food pairings. Or you can start with your choice of food and see suggested wine pairings. Second, My Wine Guide has curated hundreds of recipes and has paired them with wines from every wine region in the world. You’ll find recipes across all cuisines for each wine My Wine Guide recommends. Meet Edward With a few simple questions - and in less than 30 seconds - Edward creates your wine preference profile and right away begins offering wine recommendations for your favorite restaurants and retailers. Each personalized recommendation includes your match score and details about the wine region, the grape varietal/blend and food pairings. Edward helps you understand your unique wine preferences. You learn about the primary characteristics of red and white wine within the context of your personal likes and dislikes. You expand your knowledge of wine regions and grape varieties and blends. New to wine? Edward can help you build your wine profile. Frequent wine drinker but stuck in a rut? Edward can take you to wines and places beyond your comfort zone. Knowledgeable wine drinker? Have Edward curate restaurant wine lists that especially suit your tastes. With My Wine Guide you can rate your wines, and keep track of the wines you like, where they are from, where you had them, and what you paid for them. As you use My Wine Guide or rate wines, your profile gets richer and Edward’s recommendations get even better. Be My Wine Guide® social. Add wine loving friends to your profile. See what wines Edward would recommend for each of your friends. Whether you are at a restaurant together or planning a dinner party see what Edward recommends for each of your friends? Support your local restaurants with takeout and host Virtual Wine Dinner Parties with My Wine Guide’s built in Zoom feature. Compare recommendations, favorites and ratings with your friends. Download the app (Link), see your local retailers and restaurants and get instant recommendations that best suit your tastes! My Wine Guide® currently includes wine lists from over 7,000 retailers and restaurants throughout the United States. We are continually adding retailers and restaurants and expanding our coverage. If your favorite retailer or restaurant is not included, send us a note to feedback@mywineguide.com.

About

CELLR

This app helps wine enthusiasts manage their collection, track wish lists, and discover new wines. It offers features like inventory management, pricing references, and community insights to enhance your wine journey.

Highlights
  • Manage wine inventory & wish list
  • Wine-Searcher pricing references
  • Photo recognition for adding wines
  • Purchase & consumption history tracking
  • User review and scoring
  • Community wine stream and holdings
  • Assisted import support
Features
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CELLR is where our members navigate every aspect of their wine life. Wine has become such an integral part of our social, food, and travel life that it deserves to have an equally elegant app to reference all the wines we are lucky enough to experience. Whether our members want to track the holdings of their cellar, keep track of their wish list when they travel and dine, trade with other cellar owners, or just receive the occasional special that is aligned with their tastes, CELLR will be that destination. * Manager your wine inventory & wish list favorites. * Wine-Searcher pricing references for current valuation references. * Photo recognition for easy addition of new inventory or favorites. * See your purchase & consumption history by Varietal, Region, Subregion, etc.! * User Review and Scoring * Live photo stream of what our Community is drinking * View & search Community wine holdings * Assisted import support for you to migrate inventory Standard Apple EULA applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

MyWineGuide4 screens
CELLR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MyWineGuide at 5.0 against CELLR's 4.4. MyWineGuide also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). CELLR's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. CELLR sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. MyWineGuide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MyWineGuide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 112 and 72 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of MyWineGuide's written reviews are positive against 62% of CELLR's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyWineGuide ships an update every 6 weeks, CELLR every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MyWineGuide versus CELLR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyWineGuideCELLR
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (112 ratings) — better4.4 (72 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better61.5% of reviews
Number of ratings112 — better72
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB100 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMWG LLCCellar Ventures, Inc.

Customer experience

MyWineGuide

All ratings112 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CELLR

All ratings72 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral2.8%
Negative13.9%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%

Bugs and requests

MyWineGuide

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more restaurant wine lists
  • Improve map UI compactness
  • Enhance UI aesthetics (background images)

CELLR

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MyWineGuide

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

CELLR

Subscriptions2
  • Authorized Trader subscription$9.991 Month
  • Annualy Authorized Trader$99.991 Year

Questions

Is MyWineGuide free?
MyWineGuide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CELLR free?
CELLR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MyWineGuide or CELLR?
MyWineGuide is rated higher. MyWineGuide averages 5.0 out of 5 from 112 ratings, while CELLR averages 4.4 from 72 ratings.
Do MyWineGuide or CELLR have ads?
MyWineGuide shows ads; CELLR does not.
Which is updated more often, MyWineGuide or CELLR?
MyWineGuide ships an update every 6 weeks, and CELLR every 3 weeks. Most recently, MyWineGuide was updated on September 21, 2026 and CELLR on June 1, 2026.

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