Wine vs Cellar Ledger
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Scan wine labels
- Compare prices
- Find purchase locations
- Access critic scores
- View vintage information
- Rate and review wines
- Explore drink encyclopedia
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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
Cellar Ledger
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Your whole cellar, in order, every bottle, what it's worth, and what's ready to drink tonight. Cellar Ledger is a serious wine cellar tracker for people with a real collection, built on one simple promise: cataloging your cellar is free forever, and the price never scales with how many bottles you own. Most cellar apps charge you more the bigger your collection gets, or lock the basics behind a subscription. Cellar Ledger does the opposite. Add, edit, search and organise unlimited bottles. 7 or 700, without ever paying for the privilege of having a real cellar. Built for how collectors actually work: Manual-first entry that's fast, not fiddly. Type a producer or wine and the built-in database (over 180,000 real wines) autocompletes the rest, no unreliable label-scanning that guesses wrong. You stay in control of your own records. Know what your cellar is worth. Cellar Ledger keeps a running, honest estimate of your collection's value and what you've invested, the number serious collectors actually care about, without a spreadsheet. See what's ready tonight. Drinking-window estimates surface the bottles at their peak, so you open the right thing instead of forgetting it at the back of the rack. Rich detail on demand. Tap any wine for region, grape and style, food pairings, and a drinking-window estimate, generated when you want it, on the wines you care about. Organise by colour, region, vintage and style, search your own tasting notes instantly, and keep a proper log of what you've opened and what you thought. What you get free, forever: Go further with Pro: Cellar Ledger Pro is one flat annual price, or a one-time lifetime purchase if you'd rather never think about it again. Whichever you choose, it unlocks the whole app, there is no bigger tier for bigger collections, because punishing you for having a real cellar is exactly the thing this app was built against. Your cellar, your records, your call. Estimated values and drinking windows are rough guidance for personal reference only, never a market quote, an appraisal, or investment advice. Cellar Ledger Pro is available as an annual subscription, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://digitaldoctorltd.com/privacy.html **The legal block above is MANDATORY, do not strip it in future ASO edits.** Added 2026-08-04 after this submission was auto-rejected on Guideline 3.1.2: "offers auto-renewable subscriptions but does not include a functional link to the Terms of Use (EULA) in the app's metadata." Apple's automated check scans the **App Description text**, the links being on the in-app paywall and in the Privacy Policy URL field is not enough. **The EULA link must match whichever EULA is applied in ASC.** This record is on Apple's **standard** EULA (the default), hence the `apple.com/legal/.../stdeula/` URL. Verify under App Information → License Agreement before resubmitting. Do NOT substitute `digitaldoctorltd.com/terms.html`, that exact mismatch is what cost Car Identifier a full review cycle on 2026-08-01 (standard EULA in force, custom URL in the description, scanner found no match). ---
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Wine at #22 against Cellar Ledger's unranked. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month and Cellar Ledger sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $29.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wine ships an update every 9 days, Cellar Ledger every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wine | Cellar Ledger |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (17K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 76.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #22 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Wine-Searcher Ltd | Digital Doctor LTD |
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
Cellar Ledger
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Wine
- Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$10.991 Month
- Wine-Searcher PRO7 Days trial$98.991 Year
Cellar Ledger
- Annual$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$49.99









