Comparison

Private Reserve vs CellarReserve

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

Head to head
About

Private Reserve

Features
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You remember the bottle. You never remember what you thought of it. Private Reserve is a tasting journal for people who take whisky seriously and themselves less so. Log what's on your shelf, record what you actually taste, and let the house learn your palate well enough to tell you what to open tonight. THE CELLAR Every bottle with its proof, age statement, batch, and what you paid. Point the camera at a label and the entry fills itself — name, style, proof, even the batch number — so you're not typing "Uigeadail" with a glass in your hand. Fill levels track down the bottle, and the oxidation guardian warns you before a great bottle turns into a regret. THE POUR Pick the bottle in your glass. Tap the flavors you're actually tasting. Then just talk — the mic listens while you ramble, and turns half-formed impressions into a note worth keeping. Thirty seconds, start to finish. THE PALATE Your notes become a profile. Not a badge — a read. Which flavor families run high in your pours, the proof band where you're happiest, the regions holding your loyalty, and where your taste is drifting. The house sommelier writes it up in plain language, and tells you what to hunt next. THE SPEAKEASY Private rooms for your drinking club. Talk at the bar, log the pours going around — including the glass someone poured you from a bottle you don't own — and pin the verdicts worth arguing about. YOUR SHELF IS YOURS The cellar lives on your device. No ads, no analytics, no data brokers. We don't know what's on your shelf, and we like it that way. RESERVE PRO Unlimited bottles, AI tasting notes, the house sommelier's read, speakeasy hosting, and CSV export. $4.99/month or $29.99/year. Private Reserve is for those of legal drinking age. It's a journal, not an encouragement — the oxidation guardian just wants you to finish what you already opened. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

CellarReserve

Effortlessly manage your wine collection with this app. Scan labels to add bottles, track inventory, and know when your wines are ready to drink. Organize by producer, location, and view your collection's value and history.

Highlights
  • Scan wine labels to add bottles
  • Track purchase price and storage location
  • Monitor drinking windows for optimal enjoyment
  • Log opened bottles with ratings and notes
  • Search and browse collection by various criteria
  • Sync collection across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Features
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A beautiful home for every bottle in your collection. CellarReserve helps you track what's in your cellar, what you paid, where it's stored, and when it's ready to drink — with a clean, considered design that feels at home on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. SCAN A LABEL TO ADD A BOTTLE Point the camera at a label and CellarReserve reads the wine, producer, and vintage for you. Photograph several bottles at once and add them together. Prefer typing? Search a shared catalog of more than 5,000 wines and the details fill in for you. KNOW WHAT YOU OWN Track every bottle individually: size, purchase date, price, current value, storage location, and bin. See quantities and total cellar value at a glance, or hide the numbers when you'd rather not think about them. OPEN BOTTLES AT THEIR BEST Drinking windows show which wines are still resting and which are ready to enjoy now. The Ready to Drink widget keeps them on your Home Screen and Lock Screen, so nothing is forgotten until it's past its prime. REMEMBER WHAT YOU DRANK When you open a bottle, mark it as drunk with a rating, the occasion, and your notes. It leaves your cellar and joins your Journal, a record of every bottle you've enjoyed. FIND ANY BOTTLE FAST Search by wine or producer, then narrow by color, type, varietal, country, or region. Your cellar stays browsable no matter how large it grows. SEE EVERY LABEL Build a photo gallery for each wine. Pinch to zoom and swipe between shots — no more squinting at a dusty bottle in a dark corner of the rack. ORGANIZE BY PRODUCER AND SHOP Browse your collection by producer, with photos of well-known estates, and keep track of the shops, wineries, and merchants you buy from. YOUR CELLAR, EVERYWHERE Sign in with a free CellarReserve account and your collection syncs across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web. Or keep it on one device with no account at all. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your bottles, purchases, notes, and cellar locations are yours alone. The wine catalog is shared, and label photos from your scans are added to it unless you turn that off. COMING FROM CELLARTRACKER? Import your existing collection from a CellarTracker CSV export and pick up right where you left off. GO FURTHER WITH CELLARRESERVE PRO • More room: up to 1,000 bottles and 100 label scans a month. • Cellar statistics: what's ready, what's coming of age, your vintages, top producers, and where your cellar is from. • Journal statistics: bottles per month, your best-rated wines and producers, and the regions and grapes you rate highest. • A map of your cellar: every bottle plotted by where it was grown. • Region and producer guides: the grapes, the land, the house style, and what to look for. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Private Reserve4 screens
CellarReserve3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Private Reserve at daily against CellarReserve's every 8 days. Private Reserve also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). CellarReserve's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Private Reserve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and CellarReserve sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Private Reserve ships an update daily, CellarReserve every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Private Reserve versus CellarReserve: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivate ReserveCellarReserve
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size176 MB30 MB
Age rating17+17+
Developertrey jacksonPaween Itthipalkul

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Private Reserve

Subscriptions2
  • Reserve Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Reserve Pro Yearly$29.991 Year
2 purchases

CellarReserve

Subscriptions2
  • CellarReserve Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • CellarReserve Pro (Yearly)$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Private Reserve free?
Private Reserve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CellarReserve free?
CellarReserve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Private Reserve or CellarReserve have ads?
Neither Private Reserve nor CellarReserve shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Private Reserve or CellarReserve?
Private Reserve ships an update daily, and CellarReserve every 8 days. Most recently, Private Reserve was updated on October 24, 2026 and CellarReserve on October 25, 2026.

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