Comparison

WineGPS vs CellarEye

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

Head to head
About

WineGPS

Easily locate your wine bottles within your cellar. Search by various criteria, manage your collection, and visualize your inventory with charts and maps. Create shopping lists and custom reports for your wine storage.

Highlights
  • No-frills wine searching
  • Shopping cart creation
  • Inventory charts and heat maps
  • Geo-location map of wine origins
  • Customizable ad hoc reports
  • Bin capacity management
  • Offline mode
Features
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You liked it, bought it and brought it home. What happened to it after that? Of course you added it to a Cellar Tracker® location and bin, right? WineGPS quickly searches for your bottle and lets you know where it is. NO-FRILLS SEARCHING Searches are case insensitive and understand partial words. Search for wines by producer, vintage, varietal, vineyard, AVA, designation or country. You can search in more than one Location: Cellar, Under The Stairs, Wine Storage Locker, the choice is yours. Sort search results by Available, Vintage, Purchase Date and more. SHOPPING CART Build a cart full of the wines you want to drink. Print the cart or import it into a spreadsheet application. CHARTS Charts for Purchases, Consumed, Aged by Purchase Date. Heat Map to visualize what wines you have and when they are ready to drink. GEO LOCATION World map with pins marking where your wines are from. Tapping a pin displays a map of the appellation and its wines. AD HOC REPORTS Design and run custom reports of your cellar. Save and edit reports to get them just right. View the report on your device. Print or import reports using the cloud. BIN MANAGEMENT Set the capacity of your bins. This feature compares the capacity and the contents of your bins. Quickly discover where you can add more bottles. Capacity syncs across all your Apple devices using your iCloud account. TUTORIAL and SETTINGS Tutorial is always with you as a menu item. Change the language of WineGPS to English, French or Spanish. Bottle identifiers or barcodes are optional. If you don’t use them, you can turn them off. Enable offline mode to use WineGPS when there is no network coverage available. REQUIREMENTS You must have a Cellar Tracker® account before you use WineGPS. WineGPS cannot be used to add new wine or relocate wine in your Cellar Tracker® account. WineGPS does remove bottles from your Cellar Tracker® account when you mark them as consumed. SUPPORT Please contact us at WineGPSHelp@gmail.com with suggestions and questions.

About

CellarEye

This app reimagines wine collection management by turning any inventory into a smart, interactive cellar. It offers photo mapping, instant bottle location, and tap-to-manage access for fast and accurate cellar organization.

Highlights
  • Instant bottle location with digital mapping
  • SmartStickers for quick inventory access
  • Streamlined collection management
  • Total accuracy and flexibility for any storage
  • Personalized visual storage mapping
  • Search and filter collection by various details
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Know every bottle you own, where it lives, and what it's worth. CellarEye is the smart wine cellar tracker built by collectors, for collectors. Map your real racks, fridges and lockers with photos, SmartTap a SmartSticker with your iPhone to open any spot, and find any bottle in seconds. Start free for up to 50 bottles. WHY COLLECTORS CHOOSE CELLAREYE Find any bottle in seconds Map racks, fridges, shelves, cases and offsite lockers so you always know exactly where each wine lives. SmartStickers and SmartTap Place a SmartSticker on a rack, shelf, bin or box. SmartTap it with your iPhone to open that location, see what's there, add bottles, move them or update details on the spot. No clipboards, no guesswork. Know what your collection is worth See market valuations for your bottles in USD, drawn from leading wine market data. Each value carries a Low, Medium or High confidence rating, so you know how much to trust it. Useful for insurance, estate planning or deciding what to open. Know what to open tonight See when each wine is in its drinking window, get food pairings drawn from sommelier expertise, check critic scores, and keep your own tasting notes on every bottle. Cellar Climate Alerts Pair an optional temperature and humidity sensor and get an alert when conditions drift out of range, whether your wine is at home or offsite. Audits that actually reconcile Walk your cellar area by area, confirm what's there, and get a summary of what's missing or misplaced. Several people can audit at the same time. Reports and scan history Filter by rack, region, varietal and more. Drill into any category, see live counts, and search your full scan history by keyword. Built for the way you really store wine Traditional racks, wine fridges of every size, boxes on shelves, cases on the floor, offsite lockers and merchant storage. Work with your sommelier If you work with a sommelier, they can help manage your cellar in CellarEye with you, from what to drink next to what to move out. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH CELLAREYE - Locate any bottle with an interactive photo map of your storage - SmartTap a SmartSticker to open a bin or shelf and update it instantly - Add bottles fast, then place and confirm their exact location - See drinking windows and food pairings for what's in your cellar - Track market value with a confidence rating on every estimate - Get alerts when temperature or humidity drift (sensor sold separately) - Audit your cellar and reconcile it in one pass, with others at once - Search and filter by name, tag, location, region and more - Keep home, offsite and merchant storage in one inventory WHY WE BUILT IT Spreadsheets break. Paper lists go missing. Too many wine apps add friction instead of removing it. We're collectors too, and we built CellarEye to be fast, accurate and genuinely satisfying to use, so your cellar is fully known and fully enjoyed. PLANS CellarEye is free for up to 50 bottles. Paid plans unlock larger collections and additional features, including SmartStickers and SmartTap, market valuations and critic scores. Larger cellars can work with our team or a CellarEye sommelier for setup and mapping. Download CellarEye and see your cellar clearly.

Screenshots

WineGPS4 screens
CellarEye4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CellarEye at Free against WineGPS's $3.99. CellarEye also leads on ratings volume (54 vs 3) and chart position (#81 vs unranked). WineGPS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and device support 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

CellarEye is free to download; WineGPS costs $3.99 up front. CellarEye sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. WineGPS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WineGPS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CellarEye has 54 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of WineGPS's written reviews are positive against 97% of CellarEye's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WineGPS ships an update every 3 weeks, CellarEye every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
WineGPS versus CellarEye: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWineGPSCellarEye
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.8 (54 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better97.0% of reviews
Number of ratings354 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#81 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB377 MB
Age rating+1717+
DeveloperAl DynakCellarEye

Customer experience

WineGPS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CellarEye

All ratings54 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive97.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.0%

In-app purchases

None

WineGPS

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

CellarEye

Subscriptions6
  • CellarEye Pro (monthly)$12.991 Month
  • CellarEye Pro+ (monthly)$14.991 Month
  • CellarEye+$69.001 Year
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  • CellarEye Pro (yearly)14 Days trial$129.001 Year
  • CellarEye Pro+ (yearly)$149.001 Year
  • Collector's Club$299.001 Year

Questions

Is WineGPS free?
WineGPS costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CellarEye free?
CellarEye is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, WineGPS or CellarEye?
WineGPS is rated higher. WineGPS averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while CellarEye averages 4.8 from 54 ratings.
Do WineGPS or CellarEye have ads?
Neither WineGPS nor CellarEye shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WineGPS or CellarEye?
WineGPS ships an update every 3 weeks, and CellarEye every 2 weeks. Most recently, WineGPS was updated on November 3, 2026 and CellarEye on November 3, 2026.

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