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. Millions of people use it that way, and it's very good. 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 now" priority 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 July 2026. Features may change.
Use Vivino to decide what to buy. Use Caviste to manage what you've bought. Many people use both: they discover on Vivino, then track and time their bottles in Caviste.
Caviste computes a drinking window for each wine from an ageing table by appellation, 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?
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 attached. Full guide: switch from Vivino to Caviste.
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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 attached.
Only in a limited way. Caviste computes an editable drinking window for every bottle and reminds you when it is ready.
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