Smart Wine Cellar vs Viny
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Wine Cellar
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Smart Wine Cellar is the complete app for managing, valuing, and enjoying your wine collection. Whether you have a dozen bottles or a serious cellar, Smart Wine Cellar helps you track what you own, know what it's worth, drink it at its peak, and discover what to open next. MANAGE YOUR CELLAR Add bottles by hand or scan a label, organize by location, and see your whole collection at a glance. A smart dashboard shows what's ready to drink, what's still maturing, and what to enjoy next. KNOW YOUR CELLAR'S VALUE See exactly what your collection is worth with live market prices, and watch its value grow over time. FIND THE PERFECT BOTTLE Tell us what's for dinner and the Food Matcher picks the ideal wine from your own cellar. Or explore your collection by grape, country, region, price, and vintage rating. HOST UNFORGETTABLE TASTINGS Plan blind tastings, invite friends, vote on the night's best wine, and let the app suggest the perfect pouring order. DRINK SMARTER Discover the best vintages by country, region, and grape before you buy, and let the app analyze your cellar to reveal its strengths and gaps. SEE THE FULL PICTURE Beautiful statistics break down your collection by grape, country, type, vintage, and more. A virtual wine rack maps every bottle to its exact spot, so you always know where to find it. MORE WINE-LOVER FEATURES โข Rate and add tasting notes to every bottle โข Build a wishlist of wines to buy โข AI sommelier chat for pairing ideas โข Track consumption history over time โข Import your collection from CellarTracker โข Optional smart-rack LED and temperature monitoring Start your free 30-day trial today โ no credit card required. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Viny
Easily understand and manage your wine collection. Scan labels for detailed insights, get pairing suggestions, and track your cellar with personalized notes and statistics. Learn about wine through fun quizzes and share your experiences with friends.
- AI-powered wine label scanning
- Detailed tasting notes and pairing advice
- Harvest weather and winery information
- Interactive wine quizzes and games
- Comprehensive cellar management
- Personalized taster profile and statistics
- Friend sharing and collaboration features
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Understanding wine has never been this simple. You love wine but never quite know how to talk about it? Viny is your new companion at the table. 1. SCAN AND DISCOVER Take a picture of the label. Our AI explains the wine the way a friend would: - What does it taste like? Fruity, full-bodied or fresh, in plain words. - Practical advice: temperature, glass, decanting, how long to keep it. Viny even adds what the winery publishes. - The weather of your harvest: frost, heatwave, rain at picking time. What really happened in the vineyard that year. - Eat what you like: pairings that work, from a big dinner to a cheese board. - A question? Your AI sommelier looks through your cellar and even answers "tonight I'm having...". Everything in your units: ยฐF and dollars. 2. LEARN BY PLAYING Wine is better with a bit of fun. Every bottle comes with its own quick quiz: - Test your senses: can you guess the color or the aromas? - Challenge your friends: a game for several players on one phone, live scores and badges to unlock. - The Learn space: glossary, grape varieties, wine faults, stories to tell over the next glass. 3. YOUR POCKET CELLAR - Never lose a gem again: a dated history for each bottle (bought, restocked, tasted, given), with search, sorting and filters: region, color, harvest, price... - Real cellar management: quantity, bottle size from half to methuselah, price paid, where you bought it, total value and where it is stored. - Your journal: your notes, your impressions, a label photo and a memory for every tasting. - Your verticals: several harvests of the same wine? Viny compares them. Same bottle again? It shows how your ratings changed. - Reminders and wish list: Viny lets you know when the day comes, peak drinking included. And save that wine you tasted at a restaurant so you never forget it. - Your taster profile: statistics, favorite grapes, and a vineyard passport that fills in region by region. - Share beautiful cards of your wines or your cellar. Everything is saved to your account and follows you from one device to another. 4. WITH FRIENDS Add friends with a six-character code or by scanning their QR code. No phone number, no address book. - Give a bottle: the one they absolutely must taste lands in their app, ready for their wish list. - Your shared story: the bottles you drank together and the quizzes you played, on each friend's page. - A profile, not a wall: friends see how many bottles you have, what you tasted, your regions. Never your notes or your prices, and you can stop sharing at any time. 5. THE RIGHT MOVE AT THE RIGHT TIME Start the decanting timer from the wine sheet: the countdown shows on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a notification when it's ready. 6. ALWAYS AT HAND Widgets, Live Activities, Siri shortcuts, Spotlight and Control Center: scan or find your cellar in one move. And app icons to unlock. Simple, playful, and guaranteed snob-free. PREMIUM Viny is free to download, with your first two scans included. Premium unlocks unlimited scans, and with them your tasting profile (it takes shape after 4 rated wines), the AI sommelier, the decanting timer, cellar reminders, taste matching and the weather records for each harvest. The quiz, multiplayer mode, the cellar and the journal stay free. If you buy a Premium subscription, payment is charged to your App Store account. Your subscription renews automatically within 24 hours before the end of the current period unless you turn off auto-renew. You can turn it off at any time in your App Store account settings after purchase. Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health. Please drink responsibly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://vinyapp.com/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Viny at every 6 days against Smart Wine Cellar's every 3 weeks. Smart Wine Cellar's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Smart Wine Cellar sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month and Viny sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Smart Wine Cellar ships an update every 3 weeks, Viny every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Wine Cellar | Viny |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | โ | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 โ better | 26.2 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Illuminated Infinity AB | Valery Lacombe |
In-app purchases
Smart Wine Cellar
- Smartwinecellar PRO$5.991 Month
Viny
- Viny Premium$3.991 Month
- Viny Premium$24.991 Year
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