Cellar Star vs Wine Collection
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.
Wine Collection
Easily record and manage your wine collection with automatic label recognition and detailed tasting notes. Track your wine history with graphs, share your discoveries, and export your collection as a PDF.
- Label photo recognition
- Search input function
- Graph display
- Wine list/label collection
- SNS sharing
- PDF creation
- Location tracking
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AppStore No. 1 (Food / Drink, 2018) 77,000 download ! ◆Now on special sale !◆ The WineCollection is an app that can record wine with the concept of "Easy Input". Also supports graph display, sharing with SNS, PDF creation, DropBox. 【Major features】 ■ Label photo recognition function Automatically retrieve the wine name from the image and automatically enter the country of production and production area. ■ Search input function We search from the database of about 10,000 wines and automatically input the country of production, production area, producer etc. You can search while looking at label photos, so it's very smooth! ■ Graph display function Graphs show the type of wine, graph by country of origin, number of wines per month and its breakdown. You can tell at a glance the trend of the wine you have drunk. ■ Wine List / Label Collection You can sort and display wine type and country of origin. We will display the collection so far easy to see. ■ SNS sharing function You can share wines with Twitter, Facebook, Mail, Messaging app etc. (PDF sharing is also possible) ■ PDF creation function You can create a PDF file of all wine lists, wine types, and list by country of origin. You can save PDF files with Dropbox or other applications. ■ Location function Automatically enter the address you drank wine, you can display the map. (You can turn off this feature if you do not need it.) ■ Web search function Web search can be done by pressing search button such as wine name, production area, producer etc. 【Recommended】 iOS 8.0 or later, iPhone 6 or later (Although you can use it on iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, there is a possibility that some screen composition may be misplaced. Please purchase a paid version after trial with Lite version.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wine Collection at none against Cellar Star's 2. Wine Collection also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (188 vs 12). Cellar Star's advantage is review sentiment (94% vs 71%). On price, rating, ads 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. Cellar Star sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Wine Collection asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Cellar Star against 4.6 for Wine Collection. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine Collection has 188 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 71% of Wine Collection's.
Cellar Star ships an update every 22 months, Wine Collection every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cellar Star | Wine Collection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (12 ratings) | 4.6 (188 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better | 70.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 188 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +17 |
| Developer | ThinkMobile | MONOPOLEAPPS K.K. |
Customer experience
Cellar Star
Wine Collection
In-app purchases
Cellar Star
- 50-100 Bottles$1.99
- Unlimited Bottles$4.99
Wine Collection
No in-app purchases
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