Comparison

Wine Cellar Database vs Bottles

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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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

Bottles

Easily manage your wine collection with this app. Track where each bottle is stored, view your inventory by varietal or winery, and mark bottles as opened. It helps you remember to rate wines and repurchase favorites.

Highlights
  • Manage wine collection
  • Track bottle location
  • View wine lists
  • Mark bottles as opened
  • Rate wines
  • Syncs via iCloud
  • Supports light/dark mode
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Bottles lets you easily manage your wine collection. Perfect for those of us that have a collection of wine. Allows you to rate the wines you open, so that you know which bottles you liked most when purchasing more wine. There are no additional fees, no ads, and none of your data is shared. Add your wine to the Bottles app, specifying the location you store each bottle. Use the app to view lists of your wine, pick a bottle to enjoy, see where it is located, and mark the bottle as opened. Later Bottles can remind you to rate that wine, helping in the future to pick your favorite wines, and helping you to purchase more of your favorites. Wines can be viewed by varietal, winery, vintage, favorites and more. List can be easily sorted and searched. Since your wine data is stored in iCloud, you can safely access your collection from all your iPhones, iPads and Macs. Bottles may be used when not connected to the internet, and your changes will sync the next time you run Bottles with an internet connection. Bottles supports light and dark mode, and your Text Size setting.

Screenshots

Wine Cellar Database4 screens
Bottles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wine Cellar Database at Free against Bottles's $2.99. Wine Cellar Database also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). Bottles's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment 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

Wine Cellar Database is free to download; Bottles costs $2.99 up front. Wine Cellar Database sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bottles asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 6 days, Bottles every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Wine Cellar Database versus Bottles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine Cellar DatabaseBottles
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating3.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.7% of reviews — better55.6% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#141 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB8 MB
Age rating+1717+
DeveloperYan Liong TanPaul Hangas

Customer experience

Wine Cellar Database

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews142 reviews
Positive57.7%
Neutral10.6%
Negative31.7%

Bottles

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%

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

Bottles

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

Bottles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wine Cellar Database free?
Wine Cellar Database is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bottles free?
Bottles costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wine Cellar Database or Bottles have ads?
Wine Cellar Database shows ads; Bottles does not.
Which is updated more often, Wine Cellar Database or Bottles?
Wine Cellar Database ships an update every 6 days, and Bottles every 5 weeks. Most recently, Wine Cellar Database was updated on October 23, 2026 and Bottles on October 24, 2026.

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