Buffalo Trace vs Cellar Somm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buffalo Trace
Verify the authenticity of Buffalo Trace products and access detailed information about them. This app provides a way to confirm your purchase and learn more about the whiskey.
- Product authentication
- Product information access
- Verify authenticity
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Authenticate and get information about your Buffalo Trace product.
Cellar Somm
Manage your wine collection with detailed tracking, AI sommelier insights, and community features. Log every bottle, get personalized recommendations, and analyze your cellar's value and profile. Connect with other wine enthusiasts and import your existing data.
- Detailed bottle tracking
- AI sommelier for insights and pairings
- Community sharing and reviews
- Import from other platforms
- Cellar value estimation
- Customizable lists and search
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Created by a NASA Engineer who loves wine! Cellar Somm is the wine cellar manager built for serious collectors and casual enthusiasts alike. Track every bottle from purchase to pour, tap into AI-powered sommelier intelligence, and connect with a community of fellow wine lovers. Subscribe to unlock all the great features; if you don't love it, cancel in your App Store subscriptions before the 30 day trial ends and you won’t be charged. Cellar Somm is smartly engineered for collectors who would rather spend money on wine than software. By using the power and storage already built into your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iCloud account, Cellar Somm keeps pricing simple: one low annual subscription, no bottle-count tiers, and the same price whether your cellar has 50 bottles or 5,000. Compare with other paid cellar management apps annual subscription: 50 bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $40-$149.99/year. 500 bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $160+/year or require higher-tier/custom plans 2,500 bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $320+/year or require higher-tier/custom plans. 2,500+ bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $500+/year or require higher-tier/custom plans. MANAGE YOUR CELLAR • Add wines with detailed profiles — winery, vintage, varietal, region, appellation, and more • Track multiple bottle lots per wine with individual storage locations and bin assignments • Log purchase details including store, date, price, and pending shipments • Monitor your cellar's estimated value at a glance • Organize wines into custom lists — favorites, wishlists, ready to drink • Snap or search and store wine label photos for quick identification TRACK EVERY BOTTLE • Record drinking events, gifts, sales, and missing bottles • Log tasting notes with scores on a 100-point scale • Browse your complete bottle history with powerful search and filtering • View purchase history with spend tracking across your collection • Bulk manage bottles — move between locations, receive pending shipments AI SOMMELIER • Chat with an AI sommelier that knows your entire cellar • Generate detailed wine summaries with critic scores and drinking windows • Get personalized meal pairing recommendations from your own collection • Analyze your cellar's strengths, gaps, and investment profile • Import wines from invoices — paste an order confirmation and let AI extract the details • Import professional reviews from Wine Advocate, Vinous, James Suckling, Jeb Dunnuck, and more • Powered by Google Gemini — use the provided free AI engine with user limits or provide your own free API key with no recurring AI costs and near unlimited use. COMMUNITY • Share tasting notes with the Cellar Somm community • Read reviews from other collectors on wines in your cellar • Reply to and discuss community notes • Control your privacy — block users, disable replies, or keep notes private IMPORT & MIGRATE • Import your cellar from CellarTracker with a single CSV import • Bring in your full drinking and tasting note history • One step import from Invintory CSV • Generic import template available for other inventory formats, including spreadsheets BUILT FOR COLLECTORS • iCloud sync keeps your cellar in sync across all your Apple devices • Automatic daily backups with 30-day history • Beautiful dark mode with a wine-inspired burgundy theme • Adjustable text size for comfortable browsing • Designed for iPad with full keyboard and trackpad support • Works on newer Macs with Apple's iOS on MacOS implementation Cellar Somm — your cellar, your sommelier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cellar Somm at 100% against Buffalo Trace's 27%. Cellar Somm also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Buffalo Trace's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (26 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Cellar Somm sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Buffalo Trace asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cellar Somm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buffalo Trace has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Buffalo Trace's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cellar Somm's.
Buffalo Trace ships an update every 2 months, Cellar Somm every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buffalo Trace | Cellar Somm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Selinko | Infiniti Engineering, Inc |
Customer experience
Buffalo Trace
Cellar Somm
In-app purchases
Buffalo Trace
No in-app purchases
Cellar Somm
- Cellar Somm1 Month trial$14.991 Year
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