CellarEye vs Vinny
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.
Vinny
Log your wine experiences, scan bottles, and develop your palate. Discover your favorite wines and keep a detailed record of your tasting notes and ratings.
- Scan and identify wine bottles
- Upload wines from camera roll
- Log ratings and tasting notes
- Track top-rated bottles
- Develop wine palate
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Track your favorite wines and develop your wine palate with Vinny! Effortlessly scan/identify any wine, upload wines from your camera roll, log your ratings and tasting notes, and find your top-rated bottles – all in one place. Subscription details: Vinny requires a subscription to use. Payment will be charged to the account associated with your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. If you don’t cancel within that time, your account will be charged for renewal. You can manage your subscription by going to your account settings in the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://vinnyapp.com/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://vinnyapp.com/terms Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 100+ wine bottles in your camera roll? Download Vinny today for a better way to track wine!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: CellarEye at free with in-app purchases against Vinny's subscription. CellarEye also leads on ratings volume (54 vs 2). Vinny's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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 Vinny sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Vinny 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of CellarEye's written reviews are positive against 100% of Vinny's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CellarEye | Vinny |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (54 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 377 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | CellarEye | Eleventh, Inc. |
Customer experience
CellarEye
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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
Vinny
- Weekly Membership14 Days trial$0.997 Days
- Weekly Membership7 Days trial$1.497 Days
- Monthly Membership14 Days trial$2.991 Month
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- Monthly Membership7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Annual Membership14 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Annual Membership7 Days trial$39.991 Year









