Cellar Star vs Vintg
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.
Vintg
This app helps wine enthusiasts track their tasting experiences and ratings in a personalized journal. It offers a structured method for evaluating wines, including aroma, acidity, and body, with a vast library of wine terms and flavors to choose from. Easily record and revisit your favorite wines and discover new insights.
- Sommelier tasting method
- Personalized wine journal
- Hundreds of wine terms and flavors
- Quicksave for wines
- Searchable and shareable journal
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Vintg is the world’s best wine tasting app, and ideal for wine enthusiasts who want to taste like a sommelier and track their ratings in a personalized wine journal. Vintg provides 100s of wine terms and colors, making it easy for wine lovers to see, sniff and sip wines like a sommelier. Wine tasting is personal, so Vintg provides a wine journal designed around your preferences and experiences. With Vintg, you can create a wine review using the sommelier tasting method evaluating aroma, acid, tannin, body, fruit, earth, complexity and other wine characteristics. You don’t need to hunt for a specific flavor that escapes your mind - it’s all laid out conveniently and selectable via a single click. Vintg is updated frequently and we are releasing new features every month. Join us and explore the delicious world of wine! Current features include: Tasting Experience: Taste like the pros with a comprehensive and easy to use experience that lets you focus on the wine in your glass, not remembering fruit flavors and typing them in manually. We provide you hundreds of flavors! Quicksave: Remember wines on the go and flag them for future tastings or purchases. No more asking "what was the name of that delicious wine we had at dinner last night?" Journal: All your tastings are tracked in a searchable, shareable, personal wine journal. You'll be amazed at how fast your journal will grow and the interesting insights it will uncover!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Vintg at 4.7 against Cellar Star's 4.2. Vintg also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (68 vs 13). Cellar Star's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vintg holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vintg has 68 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of Cellar Star's written reviews are positive against 88% of Vintg's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cellar Star ships an update every 22 months, Vintg monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cellar Star | Vintg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) | 4.7 (68 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 68 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ThinkMobile | Unassuming Wine, LLC |
Customer experience
Cellar Star
Vintg
Bugs and requests
Cellar Star
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Vintg
Reported bugs
4 issues- App overheats phone, causing shutdowns
- Saving tasting location results in incorrect entries (e.g., Sonoma, CA saved as Bardol, France)
- Account creation loop: app repeatedly asks for username after successful creation
- Only displays up to 20 latest tasting notes if they are not public
Requested features
4 requests- Allow custom tasting dates
- More comprehensive flavor/note list
- Implement type-in search for flavors/notes
- Add new flavors/notes to the list
In-app purchases
Cellar Star
No in-app purchases
Vintg
No in-app purchases









