Comparison

Vinocell vs Wine Cellar Database

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

Head to head
About

Vinocell

Manage your wine collection with detailed tracking of tastings, ratings, and cellar placement. Discover wine statistics, match wines to dishes, and access a vast wine database. Perfect for both novice and expert wine enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Detailed wine inventory management
  • Graphical cellar visualization
  • Tasting notes and scoring
  • Extensive wine database search
  • Bottle life cycle tracking
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Cellar statistics and reporting
Currently charting
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VinoCell is a complete wine cellar manager designed to help you organize, track, and enjoy your wine collection with precision and simplicity. Keep full control of your cellar: manage bottles, track inventory, and follow each wine from purchase to consumption. Record tasting notes and assign ratings to every bottle to build a detailed history of your wine experience. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced wine collector, VinoCell provides a powerful yet intuitive way to manage your cellar, analyze your collection, and improve your tasting journey over time. TOP FEATURES • Complete wine cellar management with up to 50 detailed fields per wine (name, country, region, appellation, varietals, vintage, color, alcohol, and more) • Wine inventory tracking from purchase to consumption • Fully visual cellar with customizable racks and shelf layouts (50 configurations) • Add, organize, and quickly locate bottles in your cellar • Powerful search across 40+ fields for precise filtering • Tasting notes with multiple rating systems (5-star, 20-point, 100-point scales) • Wine ratings from 70+ guides and competitions (including Parker, Wine Spectator, etc.) • Access to a database of over 175,000 wines or add your own manually • Detailed collection statistics: countries, regions, vintages, varietals, purchases, and more ADDITIONAL FEATURES • Food and wine pairing tools • Producer, merchant, and contact management • Custom bottle appearance (shape, color, capsule) • PDF export for wines and cellar data • Import and export via CSV and Excel • Share wine details via email and social platforms • Automatic sync across devices using your VinoCell account

About

Wine Cellar Database

Manage your wine collection with flexible inventory tracking. Search online databases for wine details, add custom categories, and track bottle valuations. Supports multiple photos and international currencies.

Highlights
  • Online wine search and recommendations
  • Customizable wine categories and sorting
  • Add unlimited photos per wine
  • Multi-device transfer via Dropbox
  • Import/export from spreadsheets
  • Real-time cellar valuation statistics
Features
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Every cellar is kept differently. This one lets you keep yours your way. Wine Cellar Database is an inventory app for a real collection: what you own, how many bottles, where it is stored, what you paid, what you thought of it. You decide which of those it asks about. Add a column, rename one, hide one, put them in the order you want, and every wine in the cellar picks up the change. Version 5 is a rebuild. Everything below is new or rewritten. FIND A WINE WITHOUT TYPING IT OUT A catalog of 210,000 wines from 38,000 producers ships inside the app. Search it, tap a wine, and the producer, region, sub-region, vineyard, designation and color are filled in for you. It makes no network request. It works on a plane, and in a cellar with no signal. YOUR COLUMNS, NOT OURS • Add columns of your own: text, large text, number, yes/no, year or date • Rename and reorder the ones that came with the app, and hide the ones you never use • Choose which columns appear under a wine's name in the list • Your own spreadsheet headings are remembered, so an export comes back the way you sent it ONE CELLAR ON TWO DEVICES (BETA) Turn on iCloud Sync and your iPhone and iPad keep the same cellar: wines, photographs, columns and saved filters. It goes to the private database of your own iCloud account, not to a server of ours, because there isn't one. It stays off until you turn it on, and it will not turn on until you have taken a full backup. A BACKUP YOU CAN HOLD One file holds the whole cellar: every wine, every column, every photograph. Save it to Files or iCloud Drive, put it on a Mac, or mail it to yourself. Open one later and look at the wines inside it before you restore anything. Spreadsheets too. Import a CSV from Cellar Tracker or from a spreadsheet you keep yourself, and export the cellar back out under your own headings. FIND THE BOTTLE • Search as you type • Filters you build and save, on your columns, by text, number or date • Favourites and Wishlist, each its own list • Sort by name or vintage, in either direction AND • As many photographs per wine as you like: the label, the back label, the receipt • Prices in your own currency, converted at current rates • A dark appearance, and type that scales with the rest of your phone • On iPad, your cellar and the wine side by side — and it shares the screen, in Split View or Slide Over WHAT IT COSTS Ten spaces are free. A space is one unique wine, however many bottles of it you have: a 2007 and a 2008 of the same wine are two spaces, and twenty-eight bottles of the 2008 are still one. More spaces are a one-time purchase, and any purchase also removes the ad at the bottom of the list. No account. No subscription. No sign-in. Your cellar lives on your device and goes nowhere you do not send it.

Screenshots

Vinocell4 screens
Wine Cellar Database4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wine Cellar Database at Free against Vinocell's $9.99. Wine Cellar Database also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). Vinocell's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On 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

Wine Cellar Database is free to download; Vinocell costs $9.99 up front. Wine Cellar Database sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Vinocell asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vinocell holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vinocell has 1.8K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Vinocell's written reviews are positive against 58% of Wine Cellar Database's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vinocell ships an update every 3 months, Wine Cellar Database every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard10 real differences · 1 level
Vinocell versus Wine Cellar Database: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVinocellWine Cellar Database
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1.8K ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews — better57.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.8K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#59 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB43 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperVinoDevAdysseus

Customer experience

Vinocell

All ratings1,843 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews305 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral6.2%
Negative19.3%

Wine Cellar Database

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive57.7%
Neutral10.6%
Negative31.7%

User reviews

Vinocell

From 1.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Powerful flexibility
  • 👍 Organized wine cellar
  • 👍 Comprehensive wine management
  • 👍 Excellent for inventory tracking
  • 👍 Customizable cellar layouts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Confusing interface
  • 🐛 Slow performance
  • 🐛 Difficult to add new wines
  • 🐛 Limited database of wines
  • 🐛 Cumbersome to move bottles

Wine Cellar Database

From 4 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface
  • 📱 Syncs across multiple devices (iPhone, iPad)
  • 🔍 Customizable fields and categories
  • 💾 CSV import/export functionality
  • 🌐 Online wine database lookup

Room to improve

  • 🚫 App no longer receives updates or support
  • 💥 Crashes on newer iOS versions (14+)
  • 🔗 Online search/database lookup broken
  • 📵 Non-responsive developer/support team
  • 🔄 Syncing issues between devices

Bugs and requests

Vinocell

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Syncing issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Incorrect sorting of cellar locations
  • Disappearing label/bottle photos

Requested features

7 requests
  • Barcode scanning for adding wines
  • Automatic data population from online databases
  • Improved search and filtering options
  • Better integration with other wine apps
  • Ability to view all shelves at once
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  • Printing and reporting capabilities
  • More customization options

Wine Cellar Database

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes on iOS 14.2 and later
  • Online wine search no longer functions
  • Dropbox sync failures
  • Data corruption and loss
  • Restore function broken
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  • Purchased storage spaces not recognized
  • App won't open after iOS updates
  • Syncing between iPad and iPhone fails
  • Support website links to expired domain
  • App defaults to old file versions
  • Incorrect wine deletion when removing entries
  • Missing color and region fields in some versions

Requested features

15 requests
  • Barcode/label scanning functionality
  • OCR technology for automatic data entry
  • Automatic cloud syncing (not manual)
  • Web-based access to cellar database
  • Visual cellar layout/location mapping
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  • Expanded international wine database
  • Notifications for optimal drinking dates
  • Cellar value/worth calculation
  • Data export to web dashboard
  • API access for data extraction
  • Printing functionality
  • Expanded food pairing suggestions
  • Duplicate wine entry for different vintages
  • Copy/paste functionality for data entry
  • Tutorial for new users

In-app purchases

None

Vinocell

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Wine Cellar Database

One-time10
  • 10 More Spaces$0.99
  • 40 More Spaces$0.99
  • 20 More Spaces$1.99
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  • 100 More Spaces$1.99
  • 30 More Spaces$2.99
  • 50 More Spaces$3.99
  • 225 More Spaces$3.99
  • 500 More Spaces (Most Popular)$9.99
  • 1000 More Spaces$9.99
  • Infinite Spaces$24.99

Questions

Is Vinocell free?
Vinocell costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wine Cellar Database free?
Wine Cellar Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vinocell or Wine Cellar Database?
Vinocell is rated higher. Vinocell averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Wine Cellar Database averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Vinocell or Wine Cellar Database have ads?
Wine Cellar Database shows ads; Vinocell does not.
Which is updated more often, Vinocell or Wine Cellar Database?
Vinocell ships an update every 3 months, and Wine Cellar Database every 8 days. Most recently, Vinocell was updated on October 18, 2026 and Wine Cellar Database on October 14, 2026.

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