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The best wine cellar app in 2026, honestly compared

Sixteen apps compared in a single table. Among those with a free version, Caviste costs the least per year.

The best wine cellar app depends on what you need it to do. If you want to know when to open your bottles and where they are stored, here are the sixteen apps on the market compared on the same criteria: price, label scan, drinking window, cellar map and CSV import.

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. Oeni's and Viniou's ageing phases being subscription-only: checked on 18 October 2026 (Oeni app subscription screen, viniou.fr/prix).

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?

• Caviste: scans any label without a database, works out when to open each bottle from the estate, appellation, region, grape variety and 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 to fill a cellar without effort, know when to drink, pay little and stay free to leave with their data.
• Oeni: the most downloaded French cellar app, with the largest catalogue, plus a 3D cellar view.
• Viniou: the highest rated, with market-value tracking and QR codes.
• Vivino: not really a cellar manager, but the go-to network for discovering and rating wines.
• CellarTracker: the veteran, with unmatched depth and millions of tasting notes.
• Ploc: French, data kept on your phone, with a visual cellar layout.
• InVintory: the big international name, with a patented 3D cellar and a 2-million-wine database.
• 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 are for paying subscribers only, and there is no Android app.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 version, 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.
• Enolisa: iPhone only, with its own million-wine database, and it writes your tasting notes for you in a sommelier's voice.
• 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.

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. This is what a cellar app does better than a spreadsheet. Fifteen of the sixteen 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 version. Yearly subscriptions 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 version: the question is whether it publishes what that version includes, or lets you discover it by hitting the wall.
• Import/export. Free CSV import and export: you can leave whenever you like, and take your data with you.
• 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. Among the apps with a free version, it costs the least per year, and your data is always yours to export. It also draws your rack slot by slot, adds “a word from your caviste” to each sheet (temperature, decanting, what to eat with it), and has a sommelier that picks from your own bottles rather than from a catalogue. It runs on iPhone, on Android and in your browser, whereas six recent apps are iPhone-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. Among the apps with a free version, Caviste costs the least per year, and it reads any label without a database.

What is the cheapest wine cellar app?

It depends on how you want to pay. On a yearly subscription, 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: Ploc is entirely free, and MaCave only asks for a single payment. Vivino, CellarTracker, Viniou, Oeni, InVintory, CellarLog, Cellared, Cavea, Enolisa and CellarEye are all freemium. What sets them apart is whether they publish the limits of their free version: Caviste leaves you 30 wines and 50 AI scans free after the trial, and says so in writing.

Caviste is on your phone

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