Comparison

Digital Dram vs CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager

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

Head to head
About

Digital Dram

This app helps bourbon enthusiasts track their collection, discover new bottles, and understand their flavor preferences. It offers features for logging bottles, building a personal flavor profile, and participating in blind tastings with friends. Users can also find local bourbon drop alerts and connect with a community of drinkers.

Highlights
  • Track bourbon collection with photos and notes
  • Build personal flavor profile (Bourbon DNA)
  • Discover new bottles with personalized recommendations
  • Organize blind tasting sessions with friends
  • Receive community-reported bourbon drop alerts
  • Connect with a bourbon community and share reviews
Features
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Digital Dram is the premier iOS app for bourbon collectors, enthusiasts, and the bourbon-curious. Track your collection, discover new bottles, and unlock your personal Bourbon DNA — a flavor profile built from your ratings. YOUR CELLAR • Track every bottle in your collection with photos, tasting notes, and purchase details • Log open, finished, and archived bottles with full lifecycle management • Sync across all your devices with iCloud-backed cloud storage • See your total collection value, average rating, and bottle count at a glance BOURBON DNA • Take a visual swipe quiz to build your personal flavor profile • See your archetype: Explorer, Sweet Tooth, Oak Lover, and more • Get bottle recommendations tailored to your unique palate • Track how your tastes evolve over time DISCOVER & SEARCH • Browse a catalog of thousands of bourbons, ryes, and American whiskeys • Scan barcodes to instantly identify and add bottles • Find detailed tasting notes, proof, age, mash bill, and distillery info • Get personalized recommendations based on your cellar and ratings BLIND TASTINGS • Create or join blind tasting sessions with friends, in-person or remote • Rate samples without knowing what they are — then reveal and compare • Real-time scoring, host controls, and group results • Perfect for tasting clubs, meetups, and bourbon nights DROP ALERTS • Community-reported bourbon drops near you • Upvote, downvote, and verify sightings • Get notified when rare bottles appear in your area COMMUNITY • Share tasting notes and reviews with other bourbon drinkers • Create and join private or public bourbon groups • Follow friends and see what they're pouring • Build and share curated bottle lists DIGITAL DRAM PRO Upgrade to Pro to unlock: • Unlimited cloud sync across all devices • Advanced analytics and flavor insights • Unlimited blind tasting sessions • Unlimited bottles in your collection • Unlimited photos per bottle • CSV data export • Early access to new features Digital Dram Pro is available for $4.99/month or $49.99/year (save 17%). Subscriptions auto-renew and can be managed in iOS Settings. Whether you're just getting started or deep into your bourbon journey, Digital Dram helps you drink smarter, track your collection, and discover better bottles. — Questions? Feedback? Visit alternatethread.com/digitaldram or email support@digitaldram.com Privacy Policy: alternatethread.com/digitaldram/privacy Terms of Use: alternatethread.com/digitaldram/terms End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager

Manage your wine collection with this app. Catalog bottles, track drinking windows, and receive AI-powered recommendations. Features include label scanning, shared cellars, and AR bottle information.

Highlights
  • Catalog wine collection
  • Track drinking windows
  • AI sommelier recommendations
  • Label scanning and identification
  • Shared cellar management
  • Augmented reality bottle info
  • Customizable cellar map
Features
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CellarLog is your personal wine cellar management app. Catalog your collection, track drinking windows, and get AI-powered recommendations — all from your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Built for iPhone Duo: unfold it and each wine opens like a book, label left, details right. SHARED CELLAR • Invite the people you share wine with and everyone keeps the same collection on their own devices. Add bottles, open them, write tasting notes — every bottle remembers who added it. Or invite someone View Only to browse without changing a thing. GLASS DESIGN • A photo-tinted glass interface — now the default theme. Drop in your own cellar photo and the rest of the app picks up its colors. Classic Light and Dark are still on the shelf for the purists. SCAN & IDENTIFY • Scan wine barcodes or photograph any label. Our AI sommelier identifies the wine and suggests drinking windows, critic ratings, tasting notes, and food pairings. ASK THE AI SOMMELIER • Tap any bottle and ask: "Should I decant this?", "Is it past peak?" Conversational answers in plain language — never an upsell to a different wine. MANAGE YOUR COLLECTION • Rack every bottle with vintage, region, grape variety, purchase price, and personal ratings. Know exactly what's in your cellar and when to drink it. SMART DRINKING WINDOWS • See at a glance which wines are ready, approaching peak, or need more time. Get notified when bottles enter their ideal window. APPLE WATCH COMPANION • Your entire cellar on your wrist. Browse filtered by wine color, peek at your wishlist at the wine shop, and see what's hitting peak tonight. Works standalone — syncs via iCloud. Mark wishlist wines as purchased from your wrist. WATCH FACE COMPLICATIONS • How many bottles are ready to drink right now? Always-on wine radar. HOME & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS • Three widgets for your iPhone Home Screen: a Featured Wine that rotates every four hours, a "What to Drink Today" list of wines hitting peak, and a Cellar Colors donut chart. PLAN EVENTS • AI-powered wine pairings and serving-order suggestions based on your collection, guest count, and budget. Generate printable drink sheets with QR codes. LABEL PRINTING & NFC TAGS • Print custom labels with QR codes to your Niimbot Bluetooth printer. Write NFC tags for instant bottle identification — tap your phone to pull up any wine. CELLAR MAP • Photograph your rack and place bottles directly on it. See your entire collection mapped visually with color-coded drinking windows. AR BOTTLE INFO • Point your camera at bottles in your rack to see wine details, drinking status, and ratings overlaid in augmented reality. TASTING NOTES • Record notes with aroma, palate, and finish. Rate wines and track whether they were worth the price. CHARTS & ANALYTICS • Visualize your collection by color, region, value, and drinking windows. See peak windows, cellar status, highest rated, and most valuable bottles at a glance. IMPORT, EXPORT & BACKUP • Round-trip your cellar through a spreadsheet. Export as CSV, edit in Excel, Numbers, or Sheets, and re-import with a full preview. Every row is tagged new, update, or unchanged, with a field-by-field diff. Plus PDF drink sheets and full iCloud backups. PRIVACY FIRST • Your collection is stored locally and syncs via your personal iCloud — never on our servers. No account required. No tracking. CellarLog+ unlocks shared cellars, AI label scanning, event recommendations, label printing, NFC tagging, full analytics, CSV import/export, Home Screen widgets, the Apple Watch app, and watch complications. Scan packs available for one-time AI credit purchases. The Lifetime option unlocks everything — including widgets and the Apple Watch app — with no subscription. Buy scan packs anytime for AI. Pour at Peak. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cellarlog.app/cellarlog/privacy

Screenshots

Digital Dram4 screens
CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager at every 3 days against Digital Dram's every 3 months. CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Digital Dram sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Digital Dram against 5.0 for CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Digital Dram ships an update every 3 months, CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Digital Dram versus CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigital DramCellarLog Wine Cellar Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB33 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAlternate ThreadsMyro Control, LLC

Customer experience

Digital Dram

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Digital Dram

Subscriptions2
  • Digital Dram Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Digital Dram Premium Annual$44.991 Year
7 purchases

CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager

Subscriptions2
  • CellarLog+ Monthly$3.991 Month
  • CellarLog+ Annual$29.991 Year
One-time5
  • Single Scan$0.99
  • 10 Scan Pack$1.99
  • 30 Scan Pack$2.99
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  • 100 Scan Pack$8.99
  • CellarLog Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Digital Dram free?
Digital Dram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager free?
CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Digital Dram or CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager?
Digital Dram and CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Digital Dram or CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager have ads?
Neither Digital Dram nor CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Digital Dram or CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager?
Digital Dram ships an update every 3 months, and CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager every 3 days. Most recently, Digital Dram was updated on October 23, 2026 and CellarLog Wine Cellar Manager on October 31, 2026.

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