Wine Cellar Database vs Judith
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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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.
Judith
Your personal AI sommelier helps you discover wines, remember past favorites, and organize your collection. Get personalized recommendations and tasting notes with an elegant interface designed for wine lovers.
- AI-powered wine recommendations
- Natural language conversations
- Label recognition and information
- Personal wine collection management
- Search and filter tasting history
- Personalized wine queries
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Meet Judith, your personal AI sommelier. Show her a photo of your dish and Judith picks the right wine. That simple. FREE, ALWAYS • Talk to Judith — your sommelier's chat. Photograph the dish and get the pairing on the spot, ask about grapes, vintages and regions, or ask for a suggestion for any occasion: a dinner, a gift, a barbecue. • Speak instead of typing. Tap the microphone and ask out loud — Judith understands wine words, and you review the text before sending. WITH A SUBSCRIPTION, YOUR WINE LIFE GETS ORGANIZED • Remember a Wine — photograph the label and Judith identifies it and keeps it for you, including where you tasted it. • My Cellar — the bottles you have at home, with charts by country, grape, type and rating. • Wines I've Tasted — your personal journal, with your notes and ratings. • Chat with my Cellar — ask "what should I open tonight?" and get an answer drawn from what you already have. • Read the restaurant's wine list — point the camera at the list and let Judith guide your choice. A refined interface, built for people who love wine. Personal recommendations, not generic lists. One place to discover, choose and remember. Judith speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish — and answers in the language of your phone. Please drink responsibly. Judith is a companion for enjoying wine with more pleasure and knowledge. Annual plan with a free trial period. The subscription renews automatically until canceled, and you can cancel any time in your account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Judith at 5.0 against Wine Cellar Database's 3.8. Judith also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and ads (none vs shown). Wine Cellar Database's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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 and Judith sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Judith 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 Judith's.
Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 8 days, Judith every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wine Cellar Database | Judith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +17 |
| Developer | Yan Liong Tan | EDUARDO ROMEU PRATA GODINHO |
Customer experience
Wine Cellar Database
Judith
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
Judith
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
Judith
- Judith Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Year









