Wine Cellar Database vs vinopad+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
vinopad+
This app provides an always up-to-date digital wine list for iPads, powered by CellarTracker.com. It enhances guest experience, educates staff, and helps sell more wine by including bottle images, reviews, and tasting notes. Inventory management is simple via desktop or smartphone.
- Always up-to-date digital wine list
- Powered by CellarTracker.com
- Enhances guest experience
- Educates staff
- Increases wine sales
- Customizable with logo and pricing
- Includes bottle images, reviews, and tasting notes
- Easy inventory management
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Gone forever are outdated wine lists, incorrect vintages, out of stocks and printing costs. vinopad provides an always up to date wine list presented on the iPad and powered by CellarTracker.com the world's largest database of wines. Enhance your guest experience, educate your staff and sell more wine. Most users see a 25% increase in wine sales. Each iPad is customized with your logo, wine list, pricing, vintage and includes bottle images, professional reviews and tasting notes for each bottle and glass. Your wine inventory is easily managed by adding/deleteing/changing vintages in seconds from a desktop or smartphone anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: vinopad+ at 5.0 against Wine Cellar Database's 3.8. vinopad+ also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Wine Cellar Database's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. Wine Cellar Database sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. vinopad+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
vinopad+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine Cellar Database has 5 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of vinopad+'s.
Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 6 days, vinopad+ every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wine Cellar Database | vinopad+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Adysseus | Sternberg Consulting LLC |
Customer experience
Wine Cellar Database
vinopad+
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
vinopad+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wine Cellar Database
- 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
vinopad+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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