Comparison

Wine Cellar Database vs CellarEye

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

Head to head
About

Wine Cellar Database

Manage your wine collection with a customizable inventory app. Track bottles, storage locations, purchase details, and personal tasting notes. Includes an offline wine catalog and import/export features.

Highlights
  • Customizable inventory columns
  • Offline wine catalog with 210,000 wines
  • iCloud Sync for multiple devices
  • Backup and restore functionality
  • CSV import/export
  • Search and filtering options
  • Add wine photos and tasting notes
Features
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Full iPhone Duo Support 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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Wine Cellar Database4 screens
CellarEye4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CellarEye at 4.8 against Wine Cellar Database's 3.8. CellarEye also leads on review sentiment (97% vs 58%) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Wine Cellar Database sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and CellarEye sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CellarEye holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CellarEye has 54 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Wine Cellar Database's written reviews are positive against 97% of CellarEye's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Wine Cellar Database versus CellarEye: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine Cellar DatabaseCellarEye
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)4.8 (54 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.0% of reviews97.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings554 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB377 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAdysseusCellarEye

Customer experience

Wine Cellar Database

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews143 reviews
Positive58.0%
Neutral10.5%
Negative31.5%

CellarEye

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

Bugs and requests

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

CellarEye

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
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 Wine Cellar Database free?
Wine Cellar Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CellarEye free?
CellarEye is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wine Cellar Database or CellarEye?
CellarEye is rated higher. Wine Cellar Database averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while CellarEye averages 4.8 from 54 ratings.
Do Wine Cellar Database or CellarEye have ads?
Wine Cellar Database shows ads; CellarEye does not.
Which is updated more often, Wine Cellar Database or CellarEye?
Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 2 weeks, and CellarEye every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wine Cellar Database was updated on November 6, 2026 and CellarEye on November 7, 2026.

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