Comparison

Simple Wine Manager vs CellarIQ

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Wine Manager

Easily manage your wine collection with AI-assisted input, quick additions, and customizable views. Generate wine menus for guests and back up your data. Find specific bottles with powerful search and filtering tools.

Highlights
  • AI-assisted wine entry
  • Quick add and copy wines
  • Storage location management
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Customizable sorting
  • Generate wine menus
  • Import/export data
Features
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Wine Bottle Management must be simple! - Consume wines with a swipe - Add wines to your cellar quickly with as much information as you wish - also with the help of AI! - Copy wines to quickly add new vintages or other types of wines from the same producer. Add your storage locations. - Search & Filter: Quickly find specific wines, producers, vintages or wines from certain regions in your collection - Sort your views as you like and store different sort orders - Print: Generate beautiful wine menus from all or a selection of your wines to present to guests and friends - Data Management: Import/export your wine data for easy sharing or backup - Check the history and statistics of your wine collection - Works best on iPhone, but also does on iPad

About

CellarIQ

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Your wine collection, intelligently managed. CellarIQ is a beautifully designed wine cellar manager that brings intelligence to your collection. Scan labels with AI, track every bottle, visualize your cellar, and know exactly when each wine is ready to drink. 100% FREE. NO ADS. EVER. CellarIQ is completely free to download and use with no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, and no advertisements. We built this for wine lovers, not for profit. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Your collection data never leaves your device. No accounts to create, no data harvested, no analytics tracking. Your wine cellar is your business. Period. iCloud sync is handled entirely through your personal Apple ID — we never see your data. AI-POWERED LABEL SCANNING Point your camera at any wine label and let AI do the rest. CellarIQ uses Claude AI to instantly identify the producer, wine name, vintage, varietal, region, and even suggests a retail price range. Adding bottles to your cellar takes seconds, not minutes. Bring your own API key — each scan costs less than a penny. VISUAL CELLAR MANAGEMENT See your entire cellar at a glance with beautiful color-coded grid views. Every bottle has its place — organize by rack, shelf, row, and slot. Support for multiple cellars, from your basement to your kitchen wine fridge. Pinch to zoom on large collections. KNOW WHEN TO DRINK Smart drinking window notifications tell you when bottles are entering their prime, at peak, and approaching the end of their window. Never miss the perfect moment to open a special bottle. TASTING JOURNAL Rate wines, tag aromas and palate characteristics, record food pairings and occasions. Build a personal tasting history that helps you discover what you truly love. CELLAR ANALYTICS Beautiful charts reveal the story of your collection: value breakdown, regional diversity, vintage distribution, varietal balance, and drinking readiness. Data-driven insights for the modern collector. ALSO INCLUDES • CellarTracker import — bring your existing collection in seconds • Barcode scanning for quick bottle lookup • CSV export for backup and analysis • iCloud sync across all your devices • Share your cellar with a partner via iCloud • Dark mode optimized — your labels look stunning • Works offline — no internet required for core features Built by Longevity Health Analytics. Wine is a pillar of the good life — CellarIQ helps you enjoy it to the fullest. Note: The optional AI scanning feature sends label images directly from the user’s device to the Anthropic API using the user’s own API key. This is a direct device-to-API call — no data passes through our servers. The user initiates each call explicitly by pressing “Scan.” This qualifies as “Data Not Collected” per Apple’s guidelines since the developer does not collect or have access to the data.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Simple Wine Manager at 2 against CellarIQ's —. Simple Wine Manager also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.2). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Simple Wine Manager versus CellarIQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple Wine ManagerCellarIQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDieter LempenLegit Ledger, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Simple Wine Manager

No in-app purchases

None

CellarIQ

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Wine Manager free?
Simple Wine Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CellarIQ free?
CellarIQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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