CellarEye vs CellarScope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CellarEye
Track your wine collection with detailed inventory, location mapping, and market valuations. Get insights on drinking windows, food pairings, and climate alerts. Manage home, offsite, and merchant storage seamlessly.
- Interactive photo map of wine storage
- SmartSticker and SmartTap for instant updates
- Market valuation tracking with confidence ratings
- Drinking window and food pairing suggestions
- Cellar climate monitoring alerts
- Auditing and reconciliation tools
- Support for home, offsite, and merchant storage
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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.
CellarScope
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CellarScope, the app that makes managing your wine collection a breeze. With a few taps and by following a few simple instruction, you can quickly and easily build a virtual version of your cellar or wine rack and fill it with wine. Simply, 1. Take a photo of the cellar or rack within the app or use a photo from your photo album. 2. From the photo, build your cellar. Whether it has one or several sections, composed of grid or diamond-shapes, mixed with rows for large format bottles or multi-bottle cells, or all of the above -- CellarScope can handle it all. 3. Inventory your wine. Pre-loaded data tables that come with the app will save you time with thousands of vintners, appellations, and varietals ready at your fingertips. Have a wine or winemaker not in the database? Just press "+" to add. And if desired, you can add label photos, barcodes, professional or personal ratings, notes, and more to each bottle. 4. All that's left is to place your bottles. That's it! With a few taps you can quickly fill your cellar. Ready to drink? Open Power Search and quickly find the bottle you want -- by vintage, varietal, vintner, origin, rating, etc. Use the visual interface to narrow your results. Then tap the results to see exactly where a bottle is. Curious what others think of the bottle? Use the internet search function and to set and search an assortment of sites for the latest reviews, prices, etc. Forgot that bottle you enjoyed months ago? Just as easily, search your bottle history. Never again rummage through your cellar, pulling out bottles one by one, looking for that elusive wine in a haystack. With the power and ease of CellarScope, you can always see all of your wines -- wherever you are. And, more importantly, find the bottles you want -- wherever they are. Features: ○ Preloaded varietals, vintners, appellations ○ Built-in photo feature ○ Barcode scanner ○ Quick Internet search on individual bottles ○ Powerful Cellar search function ○ Visual, intuitive interface, with your cellar as the backdrop Pricing: App is free to download; however, to utilize all app functions a subscription is required. CellarScope All-access Subscription plans: Monthly: $0.59/month Annual: $4.99/year Payments and Renewal: Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account settings at any time after purchase No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active period. Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ CellarScope Terms and Conditions: https://sites.google.com/view/cellarscope/terms-and-conditions CellarScope Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/cellarscope/cellarscope-privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CellarEye at every 2 weeks against CellarScope's every 26 months. CellarScope's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. CellarEye sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and CellarScope sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.59 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CellarEye ships an update every 2 weeks, CellarScope every 26 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CellarEye | CellarScope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (54 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 26 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 377 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CellarEye | Kirk Ohanian |
In-app purchases
CellarEye
- 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
CellarScope
- One Month Subscription14 Days trial$0.591 Month
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$4.991 Year









