CellarTracker

First, The Bad: The app is fragile, often crashes and too much human error. We (customers) can add wines, which is cool, but it has lead to multiple versions of the same wines. That leads to less accurate data on ratings, price and “drink by” dates. I also don’t love that consumers can edit the drink by dates. I like wine, no a little bit, but would love for a sommelier, or someone more knowledgeable to tell me when the wine should be drank. The Good: The fact that you can take a photo of the label and it finds the wine (usually) is amazing. Also, when a wine isn’t there you simply send an email and they add it super fast. I do like that they take average prices in to account, can add to where you’re storing (wine fridge vs. wine rack, and where you drank it. I also enjoy the friend feature. I like to peruse what my pals have stored so I can tell them we should drink their (insert nice bottle) when we have dinner together. Overall, it’s free and easy to use. I think they’ll continue to update and it will get better. Tip: I donated some money to get the Premium version, and it didn’t seem to have a ton of perks. So if you expect more, you don’t get too much more.

This app was recommended to me by a winery associate after I was lamenting about needing to inventory my wine. I was tired of going over each bottle every time we wanted to open one, trying to remember what we had and what should or shouldn't be opened yet. CellerTracker has been exactly what we needed. It took a couple hours to enter in all 90 of our bottles, but so worth it. There were a couple that weren't in the system, but the app gives you the option to send an email requesting the addition, and out of the five, there was only 1 that they just couldn't find. It was a pretty obscure bottle though, I'm not even sure how we ended up with it. I think my favorite part of the app is that it provides recommended drink by dates. So if we're not looking to open anything in particular, we just search our cellar by latest drink by date. As I've entered new bottles, I try to enter in price so I can also use that as a factor in choosing a bottle. In addition, you can search your cellar by wine type, down to the grape if you want, winery, or region. So now instead of crouching in front of our wine fridges, I can just scroll through my iPad or phone with an app that helps me make a better choice. I love how much time and headache this has saved me!

This is probably one of the best and most useful free apps I’ve used. As far as wine apps go it’s unsurpassed. It does a fantastic job of finding the wines by either barcode or using a picture. You can easily ask them to add a new wine if it isn’t found and they respond within a couple days. The biggest challenge is remembering to mark a bottle as consumed when you take it out of the cellar. We have a wine rack in our kitchen and keep a case or two in the basement so it’s very handy for keeping track of what we have. You can also create a wine list report which is great when we go visit wineries so we know what we already have. The only negative I have is that it can be awkward to navigate sometimes.

Life was fine when we were just drinking the bottles from our three wine clubs, plus the miscellaneous Costco and online purchases. THEN I purchased the entire inventory of a restaurant that closed (22 cases) and needed a system. This app has been FANTASTIC! Bar codes are scanned quickly, and the label photo software works brilliantly. Then, when I stumped the library, I was SO impressed that someone responded to my email so quickly with an accurate add to the database. The latest surprise is the ‘restaurant style’ print out, which may become my ‘go-to’ way to view my newly expanded cellar. I am VERY seriously pleased with this app. It’s just what I needed!

This app so far works flawlessly. In about an hour I was able to log my collection (~50 bottle) and their locations - provides great info on each wine in their DB, only a couple of rare bottles I had weren't in their system. for some wines that don't have barcodes i used search and that worked pretty well. Overall I am stoked about this app - finally confident we won't let great wine go bad and can with confidence open a bottle when its time. Will definitely be making a donation!