Comparison

Wine Cellar Database vs Online WineCellar

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

Online WineCellar

Effortlessly track, organize, and enjoy your wine collection. Add bottles quickly by scanning labels or barcodes, visualize your storage, and know the perfect time to drink each bottle. Pro features offer AI-powered food pairings and Siri integration.

Highlights
  • Add bottles via label scan, barcode, or catalog
  • Visualize cellar storage with custom layouts
  • Track drink windows and critic scores
  • Record tasting notes and estimated value
  • AI-powered food and wine pairings (Pro)
  • Siri integration for hands-free commands (Pro)
Features
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WineCellar is the beautiful, effortless way to track, organize, and enjoy your wine — on iPhone, iPad, and the web. Whether you have a dozen bottles or a thousand, WineCellar keeps your whole collection at your fingertips: what you own, where every bottle sits, what it's worth, and exactly when to drink it. ADD A BOTTLE IN SECONDS • Snap the label and let WineCellar read the winery, wine, vintage, and varietal for you • Or scan the barcode, or search a built-in catalog that fills in the details • Add several of the same wine at once SEE YOUR CELLAR CLEARLY • Lay out your storage just like real life — fridges, shelves, cases, and cabinets • See the front and back of deeper storage at a glance, and drag each bottle into its exact spot • Find any bottle fast with search and sorting by winery, critic score, or type • Duplicate bottles tidy up into a single "×N" line KNOW WHEN TO DRINK • Every wine shows a drink window — Hold, Drink Now, or Past Prime — so you never miss its peak • Rate what you've tasted on a 0–100 scale and keep your own notes • Watch your estimated cellar value grow SOMMAI — YOUR POCKET SOMMELIER (Pro) • Get food-and-wine pairings drawn from your own cellar • Ask what to pour tonight, and WineCellar tells you exactly where the bottle is • Get a smart shopping guide and help organizing your storage HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI (Pro) • "Ask WineCellar for a pairing," and Siri answers — then offers to mark the bottle opened • Add, open, rate, and check quick stats without lifting a finger EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • Your cellar syncs across iPhone, iPad, and onlinewinecellar.com • Share your whole cellar with a partner, or just part of it with friends • Import an existing collection from a spreadsheet on the web Browse, add, and organize your entire cellar for free. WineCellar Pro unlocks SommAI pairings, the shopping guide, cellar organizer, and Siri answers — with a free trial. Cheers — and enjoy every bottle at its best. — WineCellar Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (Monthly or Annual, each with a 3-day free trial). Payment is charged to your Apple ID; it renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://onlinewinecellar.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://onlinewinecellar.com/privacy

Screenshots

Wine Cellar Database4 screens
Online WineCellar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Online WineCellar at 5.0 against Wine Cellar Database's 3.8. Online WineCellar also leads on ads (none vs shown). Wine Cellar Database's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wine Cellar Database sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Online WineCellar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Online WineCellar 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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Wine Cellar Database versus Online WineCellar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine Cellar DatabaseOnline WineCellar
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB21 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAdysseusAustin Hicks

Customer experience

Wine Cellar Database

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

Online WineCellar

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Online WineCellar

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
2 purchases

Online WineCellar

Subscriptions2
  • WineCellar Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • WineCellar Pro3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Wine Cellar Database free?
Wine Cellar Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Online WineCellar free?
Online WineCellar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wine Cellar Database or Online WineCellar?
Online WineCellar is rated higher. Wine Cellar Database averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Online WineCellar averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wine Cellar Database or Online WineCellar have ads?
Wine Cellar Database shows ads; Online WineCellar does not.

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