The household cellar and bar · Made in Melbourne
Know what's in the house, and what's ready to drink tonight.
Twenty bottles in your house and no idea what to drink tonight? Barello knows. It keeps your wine, spirits and cocktails in one place the whole house shares, tells you what to open tonight, and shows every cocktail you can make from what's already on the shelf.
Free to use, and Foundation Members keep it free for life. Spots are limited.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Free for life as a Foundation Member
Join while Foundation membership is open and everything Barello does on the day paid features arrive stays free for your household, for good.
On your phone in thirty seconds
Open it in your browser, add it to your home screen, and it's an app. Works on a laptop too.
One cellar, both of you
Your partner sees the same bottles, so nobody opens the birthday wine on a Tuesday. You'll each see the other's ratings, so you know when you both loved one. Rather keep yours private? Switch it off in Settings.
What you get
Every question you've ever asked the wine rack, answered.
Open the right bottle tonight
Stop guessing. Barello reads what's peaking across the whole house and puts one bottle forward, with its price and where that came from when it has one. Two more wait underneath if that one's not the mood.
Eating something? Say what's on the table, from a cheese board to a curry, and it answers with the wine and the cocktail that go with it.
Your whole cellar, sorted by what to drink first
Wine, spirits and beer in one list, with the bottle that most needs opening at the top. Filter for a Tuesday or a birthday. Search finds anything on the label.
Adding a bottle takes seconds: point the camera at the label and Barello reads the producer, the wine and the year. You check it, tap save, done.
Drinking windows based on where you keep your wine
Every published drinking window assumes a proper cellar at about 13°. Almost nobody has one. Here's the bit most people never hear: every 10° warmer roughly doubles the speed a wine ages. A bottle on a shelf in a living room, around 21°, gets through its window nearly twice as fast as the label suggests. A hot kitchen or a garage, two and a half times. And past about 25° the wine isn't ageing faster, it's being damaged.
Tell Barello where each bottle lives and it redraws the dates to match, so you stop finding out a wine was past it by opening it. One glance at the shape tells you whether it's on the way up, at its best, or on the way down.
The cocktails you can make tonight, from what you already own
Feel like something bitter? Short and strong? Long and cold? Barello checks every recipe against your shelf and shows what's pourable right now, what you're one bottle short of, and which bottle to buy next to unlock the most new drinks.
Other apps charge a subscription for this bit. Here it's the whole point.
Stocking it takes one photo. Point your phone at the whole bar and Barello reads every label it can see, then gives you a list to tick.
Buy better next time
Everything you've drunk and rated, summed up by grape, style and country, so the next bottle you pick up is a better bet than the last. It's a taste profile, not stock, and it's kept apart from the cellar for exactly that reason.
Got a Vivino history? You can bring it across.
How it works
Set up in the time it takes to pull a cork.
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Join with your email
We send you a code. Type it in and you're at your cellar. No password, no download, nothing to remember.
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Tell it where your wine lives, then add a bottle
A cupboard, a fridge, the garage. Then point the camera at a label. First bottle in a minute, the rest in seconds.
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Open the right thing tonight
Tonight picks a bottle. The Bar shows what you can mix. Log a pour when you open something and the cellar keeps itself honest.
Why I built it
I had forty-odd bottles at home and still couldn't work out which one to open on a Tuesday. No free app put the cellar, the bar and the pairings in one place a household could share, so I built the one I wanted.
Nothing in it is guesswork. The drinking windows come from how each grape and style really ages, a price is only shown if we can say where it came from, and a cocktail only shows up if you can make it from what's on your shelf. The only clever bit is reading the label when you take a photo, and you check that before anything is saved.
It's built for our house first and for friends next. It's young, which means it works, it gets used every week, and it gets better faster with more people in it.
Pat, Melbourne
Foundation membership
Join while it's open and it stays free for your house, for life.
What you get
- Everything on this page, free, for a household of two.
- Free for life. Everything Barello does on the day paid features arrive stays free for your household. Anything new after that may be paid, and you're never charged unless you choose to.
- Your data, yours to take. Download everything as spreadsheets, free, any time.
- A person on the other end. Reply to any email from us and a human reads it, usually the same day.
What we ask
- Use it. Put real bottles in and open some of them.
- Tell us what's wrong. A window that looks off, a cocktail it missed, a screen that made no sense. That's how it gets better.
- Bring the household. Membership belongs to the household, so the person you invite into your cellar is covered too.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing to use. Join while Foundation membership is open and everything Barello does on the day paid features arrive stays free for your household, for life. Paid features will come later as Barello Club. Anything new after that day may be paid, and nobody is ever charged without choosing to.
I already use Vivino. Why would I use this?
They do different jobs. Vivino is a scanner and a review community with a shop attached; Barello is the cellar underneath, and it holds your spirits and cocktails in the same place. The practical difference is the drinking window, which Vivino puts behind Premium and Barello gives away, adjusted for where you keep the bottle. The full comparison, including what Vivino charges, is on its own page.
Which phones does it work on?
On Android, get Barello from Google Play. The iPhone app is coming to the App Store; until then, open barello.app/app in Safari, add it to your home screen, and it opens like any other app. It works on a laptop too, in any modern browser.
Do I have to photograph every bottle?
No. Photograph a whole shelf and Barello reads every label it can see, then lists them for you to tick. Or photograph one label, or type a bottle in, whichever is quicker. Nothing is saved until you confirm it, and you can fix any detail later.
Can my partner use it too?
Yes, that's the point. One cellar for your household, two people in it. Once you're in, go to Settings and send them an invite link. It works once and lasts seven days.
Does it track how much I drink?
It tracks what's in your house, not what goes down the sink. Logging a pour is optional; it's there so the cellar stays right, and it never adds up to a lecture.
Is my cellar private?
Your bottles are locked to your household by the database itself, not by application code. No ads, no selling data, no cookies that follow you around. The privacy page says exactly what's stored and where.
Can I get my data out?
Yes, all of it. In Settings, Download everything gives you your cellar, tasting history and ratings as spreadsheets you can open anywhere or take to another app. Free, no limit, whenever you like.
What is Foundation membership?
It's how we thank the first households to join. For a Foundation household, everything Barello does on the day paid features launch stays free, for life, including reading a whole shelf from one photo and the overnight price lookups. It belongs to the household, so the person you invite is covered too, and everyone who has joined so far already has it. Spots are limited, and it closes when Barello Club launches. The terms have the detail.
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What cocktail can I make?
Tick the bottles on your shelf and see every cocktail you can make right now, the ones you're a single bottle away from, and which one bottle would open the most new drinks. No account, nothing to install.
The cocktail library
All 88 recipes, grouped by what they're built on. Ingredients, method and the glass it belongs in, with no pop-ups and no life story before the recipe.
Wine, spirits and cocktails, in one place
Most drink apps make you pick a lane. Barello keeps both shelves in one household inventory, so the bottle that's ready tonight and the cocktail you can make are the same question, asked of the same house.
When to drink a bottle
Every drinking window you have read assumes a cellar at about 13 degrees. Most houses are not one. What heat actually does to a bottle, what it costs in years, and why the honest answer is a band rather than a date.
A wine app built in Australia
Built in Melbourne, priced in Australian dollars, with drinking windows tuned for how wine actually keeps in an Australian house, a Brisbane summer and a Melbourne one alike.
A home bar inventory app
What to record for each bottle, which ones fade once they're open, and what a nip of the good stuff costs. The spirits half of the household cellar, for the house rather than the trade.
What every home bar needs
The six bottles that cover the most drinks, solved against all 88 recipes rather than guessed, and the twelve drinks you can make with no bottle at all. Then the honest table of what two bottles really make together, which is less than every other list will tell you.
The best wine cellar apps
Five cellar apps, Barello included, with what each is best at and what it costs, read off the App Store. Or Barello against one of them:
The best cocktail apps
Eight cocktail apps, read the same way. Or Barello against one of them: