Comparison

Wine Cellar Database vs Wine Collection

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 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.

About

Wine Collection

Easily record and manage your wine collection with automatic label recognition and detailed tasting notes. Track your wine history with graphs, share your discoveries, and export your collection as a PDF.

Highlights
  • Label photo recognition
  • Search input function
  • Graph display
  • Wine list/label collection
  • SNS sharing
  • PDF creation
  • Location tracking
Features
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AppStore No. 1 (Food / Drink, 2018) 77,000 download ! ◆Now on special sale !◆ The WineCollection is an app that can record wine with the concept of "Easy Input". Also supports graph display, sharing with SNS, PDF creation, DropBox. 【Major features】 ■ Label photo recognition function Automatically retrieve the wine name from the image and automatically enter the country of production and production area. ■ Search input function We search from the database of about 10,000 wines and automatically input the country of production, production area, producer etc. You can search while looking at label photos, so it's very smooth! ■ Graph display function Graphs show the type of wine, graph by country of origin, number of wines per month and its breakdown. You can tell at a glance the trend of the wine you have drunk. ■ Wine List / Label Collection You can sort and display wine type and country of origin. We will display the collection so far easy to see. ■ SNS sharing function You can share wines with Twitter, Facebook, Mail, Messaging app etc. (PDF sharing is also possible) ■ PDF creation function You can create a PDF file of all wine lists, wine types, and list by country of origin. You can save PDF files with Dropbox or other applications. ■ Location function Automatically enter the address you drank wine, you can display the map. (You can turn off this feature if you do not need it.) ■ Web search function Web search can be done by pressing search button such as wine name, production area, producer etc. 【Recommended】 iOS 8.0 or later, iPhone 6 or later (Although you can use it on iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, there is a possibility that some screen composition may be misplaced. Please purchase a paid version after trial with Lite version.)

Screenshots

Wine Cellar Database4 screens
Wine Collection2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Wine Collection at 4.6 against Wine Cellar Database's 3.8. Wine Collection also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Wine Cellar Database's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 weeks). On price 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. Wine Collection asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wine Collection holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine Collection has 188 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 71% of Wine Collection's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 8 days, Wine Collection every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Wine Cellar Database versus Wine Collection: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine Cellar DatabaseWine Collection
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)4.6 (188 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.7% of reviews70.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5188 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB42 MB
Age rating17++17
DeveloperYan Liong TanMONOPOLEAPPS K.K.

Customer experience

Wine Cellar Database

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

Wine Collection

All ratings188 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral5.3%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive70.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative24.0%

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

Wine Collection

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
None

Wine Collection

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wine Cellar Database free?
Wine Cellar Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wine Collection free?
Wine Collection is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wine Cellar Database or Wine Collection?
Wine Collection is rated higher. Wine Cellar Database averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Wine Collection averages 4.6 from 188 ratings.
Do Wine Cellar Database or Wine Collection have ads?
Wine Cellar Database shows ads; Wine Collection does not.
Which is updated more often, Wine Cellar Database or Wine Collection?
Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 8 days, and Wine Collection every 2 weeks. Most recently, Wine Cellar Database was updated on October 18, 2026 and Wine Collection on October 15, 2026.

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