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The best wine cellar app in 2026, honestly compared

There's no single winner. Here's which app fits which collector.

"Best wine cellar app" has no universal answer: it depends on whether you care most about a huge database, market value, discovery, depth, privacy or price. Below is an honest look at the main apps, what each is genuinely good at, and where Caviste fits.

The main wine cellar apps at a glance

Based on publicly available information (App Store listings and official sites) in September 2026. Prices and features may change.

Three more services appeared in 2026 without making this table: Somm&Cellar (US App Store only, no ratings, no update since April 2026), Winery Insider and Portfolio AI, which are web services attached to comparison blogs rather than mobile apps.

Which one is right for you?

• Oeni: the most downloaded French cellar app, with the largest catalogue, plus a 3D cellar view. Best if you want the richest database.
• Viniou: the highest rated, with market-value tracking and QR codes. Best if estimated value and a rich toolset matter to you.
• Vivino: not really a cellar manager, but the go-to network for discovering and rating wines. Best for deciding what to buy.
• CellarTracker: the veteran, with unmatched depth and millions of tasting notes. Best for large collections that want maximum detail.
• Ploc: French, data kept on your phone, with a visual cellar layout. Best for the privacy-minded (label scan is still in development).
• InVintory: the big international one, with a patented 3D cellar and a 2-million-wine database. Best if you want the most polished 3D and don't mind $99.99 a year.
• CellarLog: Apple-only, and the closest thing to Caviste on features: it photographs your rack and places bottles on it, and its AI answers "should I decant this?". Note that CSV and the scan sit behind the paid tier, and there is no Android app. Best on an all-Apple setup, and its $49.99 lifetime is unusual.
• Cellared: launched May 2026, Apple-only, built entirely around the question of when to open a bottle, with windows drawn from critic scores and varietal curves rather than an appellation table. No label scan. Best if you already keep your cellar on CellarTracker and want a better read on timing.
• MaCave: French, iPhone only, a single €9.99 payment and no subscription at all, with graphical shelves and a peak field. No scan, and the export is JSON rather than CSV. Best if you refuse subscriptions on principle.
• Sommo: 10 languages, rated 4.9 across 53 US reviews (3.5 on 4 reviews in France), with unlimited scanning that also reads restaurant menus and shop shelves, free export, and WSET level 1 to 4 training with mock exams. Best if you are studying for a wine qualification. It is also the closest app to Caviste on price and on data portability.
• Tire-Bouchon: French, launched late August 2026, with a 500,000-wine catalogue, AI scanning, drinking windows and a cellar overview. Worth knowing: there is no free tier, only a one-week trial with a card.
• Winary: Swiss, French and English, with restaurant wine-list scanning and cellar market value, on a 9-million-wine database. The most expensive in this comparison.
• Cavea: French, iPhone only, built around an AI sommelier called Pierre. Best for advice and learning more than for inventory depth.
• Enolisa: iPhone only, with its own million-wine database, and it writes your tasting notes for you in a sommelier's voice. Best if you want the notes drafted rather than the cellar drawn.
• CellarEye: iPhone only, and the most physical approach of the lot: it maps your cellar from real photos of your racks, and NFC stickers on a shelf open the right location when you tap your phone against it. Best for a large cellar you walk around in, if $149 a year is acceptable.
• Caviste: scans any label without a database, computes a drinking window from a five-level ageing table of its own (named estate, appellation, region, grape variety, corrected by the vintage), and offers free CSV import and export. The appellation names come from the INAO open-licence list; the ageing values are our own oenological compilation, and always editable. Best for the amateur who wants effortless entry, "when to drink" guidance, a low price and no lock-in.

How to choose

• The scan. Database-backed scans are fast on famous wines but can miss small growers, natural and foreign bottles. A database-free scan (Caviste) reads the label itself.
• Drinking windows. The reason a cellar app beats a spreadsheet. Twelve of the thirteen apps here claim them, and almost none say how they are produced. Look for windows you can edit per bottle, and for a published method rather than a black box: ours is written out in full, factors and known holes included, in how a drinking window is calculated.
• Price and free tier. Yearly plans run from 24.99 € to $500, and two apps ask for nothing at all or a single payment. Almost every app now says it has a free tier: the question is whether it publishes what that tier holds, or lets you discover it by hitting the wall.
• Import/export. Free CSV in and out means you're never locked in.
• Offline and privacy. Whether your cellar stays readable without signal, and where your data lives.

Where Caviste fits

Caviste is built for the amateur with 30 to 500 bottles who wants the cellar handled without effort: photograph a label, the sheet fills itself in (even for wines no database knows), and the app tells you when to open each bottle. It's the cheapest option with a genuine free tier, and your data is always yours to export. It also draws your rack slot by slot, writes a serving note on each sheet (temperature, decanting, what to eat with it), and has a sommelier that picks from your own bottles rather than from a catalogue. None of that is unique any more: Oeni, InVintory, Ploc, CellarLog, MaCave and CellarEye all draw a cellar, and Viniou, CellarTracker, InVintory, Cellared, Cavea and Enolisa all advise on pairings or draft the notes. What is still rare is the combination of both iOS and Android, a label scan that needs no database, and a CSV export that costs nothing. Six of the seven recent entrants are Apple-only: CellarLog, Cellared, MaCave, Cavea, Enolisa and CellarEye. Discover Caviste →

Go deeper: Caviste vs Oeni · vs Viniou · vs Vivino. Switching over? Import from CellarTracker, Vivino or a spreadsheet, free.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best wine cellar app?

There's no single best one; it depends on your priorities (see the table above). Oeni has the largest database, InVintory the best 3D cellar, Vivino is best for discovery, CellarTracker is deepest, Cellared is built around when to open a bottle, and Ploc and MaCave keep data on your phone. Caviste has the cheapest yearly plan with a free tier, and reads any label without a database.

What is the cheapest wine cellar app?

It depends on how you want to pay. On a yearly plan, Caviste is the cheapest at 24.99 €, ahead of CellarLog and Sommo ($29.99), Oeni (29.99 to 79.99 €), Viniou, Enolisa and Tire-Bouchon (44.99 €), Winary (69 to 79 €), Cellared ($79), InVintory ($99.99), CellarEye ($149) and CellarTracker (from $40, priced by cellar size). Without a subscription at all, Ploc is free and MaCave asks €9.99 once; CellarLog also sells a $49.99 lifetime unlock.

Is there a free wine cellar app?

Yes, and Ploc is free outright while MaCave asks a single payment. Vivino, CellarTracker, Viniou, Oeni, InVintory, CellarLog, Cellared, Cavea, Enolisa and CellarEye are all freemium. What sets them apart is whether the free limits are published: Caviste keeps 30 bottles + 50 AI scans free after the trial, and says so.

Caviste is on your phone

Scan a label and your cellar fills itself, then it tells you when to open each bottle.