Comparison

CT Legacy Version vs Cellar Somm

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

Head to head
About

CT Legacy Version

Access a vast database of wine reviews and tasting notes from a global community. Manage your personal wine collection, track consumption, and identify wines using label recognition or barcode scanning. This legacy version offers core functionality for wine enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Read and write wine reviews
  • Manage wine collection
  • Label recognition for wine identification
  • Barcode scanning for cellar management
  • Track consumption history
  • Access professional reviews
Features
Read full description

IMPORTANT: This is the classic, legacy version of CellarTracker. For the best experience, we recommend installing the new version of the app, “CellarTracker: #1 Wine Tracker”. The classic version of the app will not be receiving new feature updates. CellarTracker is the world's largest collection of wine reviews, tasting notes and personal stories from people who love wine — now available for iPhone and iPad! • Read & Write Wine Reviews • Find over 4.4 million wines, read more than 12 million tasting notes (community and professional) for great recommendations, and join a community of over 888,000 users to share your opinions. Fully integrated with professional reviews from Antonio Galloni, Stephen Tanzer, Allen Meadows, Jancis Robinson, Decanter and more (separate subscriptions may be required). • Manage Your Collection • Use our online cellar management tool to track your collection, see its value, and much more. Users are currently managing 168 million bottles and counting! • Label Recognition • Search for a wine by taking a photo of the label, or quickly capture photos and notes of multiple wines for later reference. Access your entire history of captured labels to remember what you've been drinking. • Scan Barcodes • Easily scan UPC/EAN barcodes on wines, as well as custom CellarTracker barcodes, to make cellar management a breeze. • Track Consumption History • CellarTracker allows you to track what you've been drinking — from your cellar, a restaurant, winery or anywhere — and add your own tasting notes, ratings and label images. This app requires internet connectivity to operate. Certain functionality, such as managing your cellar or tracking consumption history, require a free CellarTracker account. Optional paid CellarTracker accounts provide access to additional functionality, including automatic valuation. Some professional reviews require separate subscriptions to those publications to enable integration.

About

Cellar Somm

Manage your wine collection with detailed tracking, AI sommelier insights, and community features. Log every bottle, get personalized recommendations, and analyze your cellar's value and profile. Connect with other wine enthusiasts and import your existing data.

Highlights
  • Detailed bottle tracking
  • AI sommelier for insights and pairings
  • Community sharing and reviews
  • Import from other platforms
  • Cellar value estimation
  • Customizable lists and search
Features
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Created by a NASA Engineer who loves wine! Cellar Somm is the wine cellar manager built for serious collectors and casual enthusiasts alike. Track every bottle from purchase to pour, tap into AI-powered sommelier intelligence, and connect with a community of fellow wine lovers. Subscribe to unlock all the great features; if you don't love it, cancel in your App Store subscriptions before the 30 day trial ends and you won’t be charged. Cellar Somm is smartly engineered for collectors who would rather spend money on wine than software. By using the power and storage already built into your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and iCloud account, Cellar Somm keeps pricing simple: one low annual subscription, no bottle-count tiers, and the same price whether your cellar has 50 bottles or 5,000. Compare with other paid cellar management apps annual subscription: 50 bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $40-$149.99/year. 500 bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $160+/year or require higher-tier/custom plans 2,500 bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $320+/year or require higher-tier/custom plans. 2,500+ bottles: Cellar Somm $14.99/year. Other paid cellar apps can cost $500+/year or require higher-tier/custom plans. MANAGE YOUR CELLAR • Add wines with detailed profiles — winery, vintage, varietal, region, appellation, and more • Track multiple bottle lots per wine with individual storage locations and bin assignments • Log purchase details including store, date, price, and pending shipments • Monitor your cellar's estimated value at a glance • Organize wines into custom lists — favorites, wishlists, ready to drink • Snap or search and store wine label photos for quick identification TRACK EVERY BOTTLE • Record drinking events, gifts, sales, and missing bottles • Log tasting notes with scores on a 100-point scale • Browse your complete bottle history with powerful search and filtering • View purchase history with spend tracking across your collection • Bulk manage bottles — move between locations, receive pending shipments AI SOMMELIER • Chat with an AI sommelier that knows your entire cellar • Generate detailed wine summaries with critic scores and drinking windows • Get personalized meal pairing recommendations from your own collection • Analyze your cellar's strengths, gaps, and investment profile • Import wines from invoices — paste an order confirmation and let AI extract the details • Import professional reviews from Wine Advocate, Vinous, James Suckling, Jeb Dunnuck, and more • Powered by Google Gemini — use the provided free AI engine with user limits or provide your own free API key with no recurring AI costs and near unlimited use. COMMUNITY • Share tasting notes with the Cellar Somm community • Read reviews from other collectors on wines in your cellar • Reply to and discuss community notes • Control your privacy — block users, disable replies, or keep notes private IMPORT & MIGRATE • Import your cellar from CellarTracker with a single CSV import • Bring in your full drinking and tasting note history • One step import from Invintory CSV • Generic import template available for other inventory formats, including spreadsheets BUILT FOR COLLECTORS • iCloud sync keeps your cellar in sync across all your Apple devices • Automatic daily backups with 30-day history • Beautiful dark mode with a wine-inspired burgundy theme • Adjustable text size for comfortable browsing • Designed for iPad with full keyboard and trackpad support • Works on newer Macs with Apple's iOS on MacOS implementation Cellar Somm — your cellar, your sommelier.

Screenshots

CT Legacy Version4 screens
Cellar Somm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cellar Somm at 5.0 against CT Legacy Version's 3.9. Cellar Somm also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). CT Legacy Version's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (184 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cellar Somm sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. CT Legacy Version asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cellar Somm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CT Legacy Version has 184 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of CT Legacy Version's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cellar Somm's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CT Legacy Version ships an update every 3 months, Cellar Somm every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
CT Legacy Version versus Cellar Somm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCT Legacy VersionCellar Somm
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (184 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings184 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB63 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperCellarTrackerInfiniti Engineering, Inc

Customer experience

CT Legacy Version

All ratings184 ratings
Positive70.1%
Neutral6.5%
Negative23.4%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive63.1%
Neutral7.8%
Negative29.1%

Cellar Somm

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

Bugs and requests

CT Legacy Version

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Horizontal banner/glitch appears halfway down review screens
  • App fails to load or shows blank white pages
  • Keyboard covers text input fields
  • Sticky banner appears in random screen positions when scrolling
  • iOS 16.4+ compatibility issues with banner positioning
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  • Search function unable to handle minor typos
  • Barcode misidentification (e.g., Shiraz identified as Chianti)
  • Label identification fails for common wines
  • App won't open with error codes
  • Slow loading times on iPhone 11 and newer devices
  • Non-native app behavior and web view problems
  • Constant loading spinners during operations
  • Online search functionality broken without support response

Requested features

20 requests
  • Offline access to cellar inventory
  • Multi-currency and international date format support
  • Bulk scanner for multiple bottles at once
  • Copy/duplicate entry function for similar wines
  • Sort by delivery/purchase date
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  • Coravined wine tracking and flagging
  • Save search history for quick access
  • Better storage/location visualization (like VinoCell)
  • Social features to connect with local collectors
  • PDF file attachment capability for wine information
  • Ability to mark multiple bottles consumed at once
  • Wine pairing recommendations
  • Search history/saved searches
  • Default sorting preferences
  • iOS 13 shortcuts for bottle removal
  • Better keyboard handling to avoid covering input fields
  • Swipe navigation between pages
  • Remember scroll position when returning to cellar list
  • Less sensitive tap/select function
  • Professional sommelier input on drink-by dates

Cellar Somm

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CT Legacy Version

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Cellar Somm

Subscriptions1
  • Cellar Somm1 Month trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is CT Legacy Version free?
CT Legacy Version is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cellar Somm free?
Cellar Somm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CT Legacy Version or Cellar Somm?
Cellar Somm is rated higher. CT Legacy Version averages 3.9 out of 5 from 184 ratings, while Cellar Somm averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do CT Legacy Version or Cellar Somm have ads?
Neither CT Legacy Version nor Cellar Somm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CT Legacy Version or Cellar Somm?
CT Legacy Version ships an update every 3 months, and Cellar Somm every 4 days. Most recently, CT Legacy Version was updated on October 8, 2026 and Cellar Somm on October 5, 2026.

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