Cellar Star vs Cellar 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cellar Star
Easily track your wine collection, whether it's a few bottles or a full cellar. Make informed choices about which wines to open and when, ensuring your inventory is always up-to-date. Spend more time savoring your wine and less time managing it.
- Import existing cellar data
- Easy wine addition with predictive text
- Search, browse, and filter collection
- iCloud synchronization and backup
- Configure custom cellar layouts
- Rate wines and track optimal opening years
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Whether you have a cellar filled with wine or are just saving a few cases in a hall closet, it's easy to lose track of what you have. Cellar Star is designed with this in mind. Make informed selections from your cellar. Focus your attention on wines that are ready to open. Have confidence that your inventory is up to date. Spend less time managing your cellar and more time enjoying your wine. — Easily Add And Select Wines — Import your inventory from existing cellar tracking applications and spreadsheets. Adding wine is easy with predictive text that knows your collection and the wine regions of the world. Easily select wines from your cellar in the way that works best for you: - Search by keywords. - Browse your collection organized by name, star rating, place of origin, vintage year, and more. - Utilize filters to refine the list of displayed wine. — Manage Your Collection — Complete iCloud integration ensures that your inventory stays synchronized across all your devices and allows for easy backup and restoration to your iCloud Drive. Configure cellars and bins to match your storage layout. Rate each wine on a five star scale and choose the best years for opening. Reconcile what's actually in storage with your Cellar Star inventory.
Cellar 2
Manage your wine collection with a visually rich interface that mimics a real cellar. Customize bottle details, track wine information, and organize your collection across different locations like Garage, Wishlist, and Trash. Offers search, sorting, and backup features.
- Visual cellar interface
- Customizable bottle details (shape, color, label)
- Detailed wine information tracking
- Location management (Garage, Wishlist, Trash)
- Search and sort collection
- Backup, restore, and merge data
- Share individual bottle details
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Cellar 2 is the new and improved way to manage your wine collection. It's not just a bland list of names and vintages - it looks and feels like a proper cellar! Browsing your wine collection is like looking at the real thing. Try it out with our free trial, and then purchase the full version from within the application. After the free trial period finishes, if you choose not to purchase the full version, then Cellar 2 will switch to read-only mode. Customize each bottle based on: • shape of bottle - including the Bocksbeutel! • color of glass - enjoy new custom colors! • wine label - support for circular labels! • bottle top Add information about each one, such as: • Wine Producer • Vintage • Grape (including blends) • Name • Region • Type • Price • Personal notes • Pairings • Drink from and by… • Personal star rating • 100 pt wine scores Locations -------- Cellar 2 is more than just a Cellar. It's a Garage, Wishlist and Trash as well! Finished a bottle? Move it to the Garage for future reference if you enjoyed it. Didn't like it? Move it to the Trash, where you can locate it later if required. What about wine that you've been recommended or tasted in a restaurant? Enter it straight into your Wishlist and then move it to the Cellar when you eventually purchase it. List mode ---------- If you want to see your wines in a more conventional list, you can easily do so by tapping the list option in the menus. Search and Sort ------------- You can search for wine based on any of the data you've entered, as well as sort your entire collection based on: Type, Region, Vintage, Price or Rating. Search and Sort are available in both cellar and list modes too! Backup/Restore/Merge ---------------------- Worried about losing all that info you've entered? You can now share your backups using native iOS sharing facilities, and the same popular merge option is available to avoid duplicating bottles between devices. Sharing individual bottles ------------------------- Don't just email your bottles to your friends - share them! You share the bottle itself and not just some info about it. Your friends receive a link that they can either import into their own copy of Cellar 2 or review on a webpage. If they import it, the whole bottle is downloaded into their Cellar, shape, glass color, label image, notes and all! Other features -------------- • Statistics on your wine collection • Quick menus for fast data entry in tasting notes • Popups for grape varieties, producers, etc. Follow Cellar 2 on Twitter: @cellarapp ---------------------------------------------- The full version of Cellar 2 can be purchased with a one-time payment, or with a subscription. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. If you choose to purchase a subscription, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://airsource.co.uk/cellar2/privacy Terms of Use: https://airsource.co.uk/cellar2/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
Cellar Star and Cellar 2 both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 94% of Cellar Star's written reviews are positive against 56% of Cellar 2's. Cellar Star also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Cellar 2's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (128 vs 12). On price, rating, 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. Cellar Star sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Cellar 2 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Cellar Star against 4.6 for Cellar 2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cellar 2 has 128 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 94% of Cellar Star's written reviews are positive against 56% of Cellar 2's.
Cellar Star ships an update every 22 months, Cellar 2 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cellar Star | Cellar 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (12 ratings) | 4.6 (128 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better | 56.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 128 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ThinkMobile | Airsource |
Customer experience
Cellar Star
Cellar 2
In-app purchases
Cellar Star
- 50-100 Bottles$1.99
- Unlimited Bottles$4.99
Cellar 2
- Monthly Subscription$0.491 Month
- 14-Day TrialFree
- Full Version$4.99
- Full Version$9.99








