Comparison

Wine vs CellarReserve

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Wine

This app helps you find, compare, and buy wines, beers, and spirits globally. Scan labels or search by name to access pricing, critic scores, and purchase locations. Discover new drinks and expand your knowledge with its extensive encyclopedia.

Highlights
  • Scan wine labels
  • Compare prices
  • Find purchase locations
  • Access critic scores
  • View vintage information
  • Rate and review wines
  • Explore drink encyclopedia
Features
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Find, compare and buy wines using the world’s #1 wine resource. The Wine-Searcher app is a genius shortcut to your favorite wines, beers and spirits – wherever you are on earth. Just scan the label and find a wealth of info on 8 million wine offers from 55,000 merchants. With the Wine-Searcher app, you can look up a wine to find out prices, critic scores, grape and region information, available vintages, and most importantly, where to buy. You can even rate and review your own favorites, and share them with the community. Looking to compare prices for the 2005 Mouton Rothschild? Or wanting to get information on a rare Cognac, bourbon or single malt Scotch whisky? Maybe you’re just interested in the best vintages for your favorite vineyards and wineries. Search quickly and easily Use our Label Scanner tool to scan the wine, beer or whisky in front of you, or just type in the name of a product you want to learn more about. Find out about grape varieties, producers and regions, access pricing information across vintages, and even see how critics have scored it.
 Ratings: Remember the memorable With the Wine-Searcher app, you can always buy a five star wine from a palate you trust – your own. Rate and review wines you've been drinking, and see what others have been enjoying. You can even save wines you haven't tried yet for later.
 Locate stores near you
Find out what wine stores are closest to you, and see what wines are the best value at your local wine merchant. Buy wines online through the merchant’s site, or get in touch with a store directly through the app.
 Expand your wine knowledge Access Wine-Searcher’s exhaustive encyclopedia covering producers, wine regions, appellations and grape varieties – from the ubiquitous to the obscure.
 Broaden your horizons The Wine-Searcher app is so much more than that: find and compare prices of some of the world’s best Scotch whisky, bourbon, Cognac, gin, rum, tequila, and even beer. 
“Thanks to Wine-Searcher, the most successful, and seriously useful, price comparison website, everyone should now be paying the right price for the wines they buy.” – Jancis Robinson MW
 “There is no better tool than Wine-Searcher. This web site offers the world’s most comprehensive database of wines available for sale online.” – Alder Yarrow, Vinography 
“Whether you’re looking for something as ubiquitous as Mouton Cadet Bordeaux or something as rare as a Riesling TBA from Egon Müller in Germany, Wine-Searcher will point you to the right place and show you the prices.” – The New York Times Wine-Searcher is free to use. You can purchase a subscription to Wine-Searcher PRO through an In-App Purchase. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your Apple account. Your subscription will renew automatically, unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel the subscription at any time. You can manage your subscriptions in App Store Account Settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://www.wine-searcher.com/policies.lml Terms of use: https://www.wine-searcher.com/user-terms.lml

About

CellarReserve

Effortlessly manage your wine collection with this app. Scan labels to add bottles, track inventory, and know when your wines are ready to drink. Organize by producer, location, and view your collection's value and history.

Highlights
  • Scan wine labels to add bottles
  • Track purchase price and storage location
  • Monitor drinking windows for optimal enjoyment
  • Log opened bottles with ratings and notes
  • Search and browse collection by various criteria
  • Sync collection across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Features
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A beautiful home for every bottle in your collection. CellarReserve helps you track what's in your cellar, what you paid, where it's stored, and when it's ready to drink — with a clean, considered design that feels at home on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. SCAN A LABEL TO ADD A BOTTLE Point the camera at a label and CellarReserve reads the wine, producer, and vintage for you. Photograph several bottles at once and add them together. Prefer typing? Search a shared catalog of more than 5,000 wines and the details fill in for you. KNOW WHAT YOU OWN Track every bottle individually: size, purchase date, price, current value, storage location, and bin. See quantities and total cellar value at a glance, or hide the numbers when you'd rather not think about them. OPEN BOTTLES AT THEIR BEST Drinking windows show which wines are still resting and which are ready to enjoy now. The Ready to Drink widget keeps them on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, so nothing is forgotten until it's past its prime. REMEMBER WHAT YOU DRANK When you open a bottle, mark it as drunk with a rating, the occasion, and your notes. It leaves your cellar and joins your Journal, a record of every bottle you've enjoyed. FIND ANY BOTTLE FAST Search by wine or producer, then narrow by color, type, varietal, country, or region. Your cellar stays browsable no matter how large it grows. SEE EVERY LABEL Build a photo gallery for each wine. Pinch to zoom and swipe between shots — no more squinting at a dusty bottle in a dark corner of the rack. ORGANIZE BY PRODUCER AND SHOP Browse your collection by producer, with photos of well-known estates, and keep track of the shops, wineries, and merchants you buy from. YOUR CELLAR, EVERYWHERE Sign in with a free CellarReserve account and your collection syncs across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web. Or keep it on one device with no account at all. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your bottles, purchases, notes, and cellar locations are yours alone. The wine catalog is shared, and label photos from your scans are added to it unless you turn that off. COMING FROM CELLARTRACKER? Import your existing collection from a CellarTracker CSV export and pick up right where you left off. GO FURTHER WITH CELLARRESERVE PRO • More room: up to 1,000 bottles and 100 label scans a month. • Cellar statistics: what's ready, what's coming of age, your vintages, top producers, and where your cellar is from. • Journal statistics: bottles per month, your best-rated wines and producers, and the regions and grapes you rate highest. • A map of your cellar: every bottle plotted by where it was grown. • Region and producer guides: the grapes, the land, the house style, and what to look for. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Wine4 screens
CellarReserve3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Wine at 17K against CellarReserve's 1. Wine also leads on chart position (#22 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and CellarReserve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CellarReserve holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine has 17K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine ships an update every 9 days, CellarReserve every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Wine versus CellarReserve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWineCellarReserve
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (17K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings17K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank#22 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB30 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperWine-Searcher LtdPaween Itthipalkul

Customer experience

Wine

All ratings17,165 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews493 reviews
Positive76.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative19.1%

CellarReserve

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

Bugs and requests

Wine

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Saved wines not syncing properly
  • Landscape mode not working on iPad

Requested features

4 requests
  • Wish list feature for wines to buy
  • Improved label scanning and recognition
  • Ability to save and rate tasted wines
  • More integration with wine critic reviews

CellarReserve

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wine

Subscriptions2
  • Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$10.991 Month
  • Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$98.991 Year
2 purchases

CellarReserve

Subscriptions2
  • CellarReserve Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • CellarReserve Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Wine free?
Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CellarReserve free?
CellarReserve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Wine or CellarReserve?
CellarReserve is rated higher. Wine averages 4.8 out of 5 from 17K ratings, while CellarReserve averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Wine or CellarReserve have ads?
Neither Wine nor CellarReserve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine or CellarReserve?
Wine ships an update every 9 days, and CellarReserve every 8 days. Most recently, Wine was updated on November 6, 2026 and CellarReserve on October 31, 2026.

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