Caviste vs Vivino
They solve different problems. Here's which one you actually need.
Vivino is excellent at what it's for: discovering wines, reading community ratings and buying bottles. But it isn't a cellar manager, and it doesn't cleanly export your collection. Caviste is the opposite: it's built to run the cellar you already own and tell you when to open each bottle.
Vivino is for discovering wines; Caviste is for managing the cellar you own: drinking windows, a "drink now" screen, free export. Many people use both.
| Caviste | Vivino | |
|---|---|---|
| Main purpose | Manage the cellar you own | Discover, rate and buy wines |
| Drinking windows | For every bottle, editable, with peak reminders | Limited |
| “Drink first” screen | Yes, sorted by urgency | No |
| Community ratings | No (a private cellar tool) | Yes, its core strength |
| Label scan | AI reads any label, fills the sheet | Yes, matched to its catalogue |
| Export your cellar | Free CSV, any time | No clean built-in export |
Comparison based on publicly available information in August 2026. Features may change.
With the same account as the app.
Discover or manage
Use Vivino to decide what to buy. Use Caviste to manage what you've bought. Many people use both: they discover on Vivino, then store and keep an eye on their bottles in Caviste.
When to drink, not just what to rate
Caviste computes a drinking window for each wine from our ageing table, from the estate down to the grape variety, adjusted for the vintage, sorts your cellar into "drink now / on the way out / at its peak," and reminds you when a bottle is ready. That's the question a rating app can't answer: is tonight the night for this one?
Moving from Vivino
Because Vivino has no clean cellar export, the simplest way to switch is to scan the labels of the bottles you own: fast, and each wine arrives with a drinking window already calculated. Full guide: switch from Vivino to Caviste.
Try Caviste free. Now on the App Store and Google Play. Discover the app →
Frequently asked questions
Can I export my cellar from Vivino?
Vivino has no clean built-in export. The simplest way to move to Caviste is to scan the bottles you own; each wine arrives with a drinking window already calculated.
Does Vivino handle drinking windows?
Only in a limited way. Caviste computes an editable drinking window for every bottle and reminds you when it is ready.
See also: Caviste vs Oeni · Caviste vs Viniou · All wine cellar apps compared
Caviste is on your phone
Scan a label and your cellar fills itself, then it tells you when to open each bottle.
With the same account as the app.