The best wine cellar apps, and what each one is for

When each bottle is ready, and whether that date knows where the bottle lives. Every published drinking window assumes a cellar at about 13 degrees, and a cupboard through a Melbourne summer runs a wine's clock faster than that.

Whether the whole house sees the same cellar. A list one person keeps on their phone is out of date the first time someone else opens a bottle.

What's free and what costs extra. The drinking window is where the free plans differ. Vivino puts it behind Premium, by its own upgrade screen. CellarTracker's subscription adds "enhanced coverage", and InVintory's free plan has windows "on select wines", each in its own words.

Barello is built around all three: the window moves for where you keep the bottle, the house shares one cellar, and both are free.

The wine, the spirits and the cocktails sit in one household inventory, so tonight's answer can be a bottle that's ready or a cocktail you can make. Why both belong in one place.

Every wine carries a drinking window drawn from the grape and the style, then moved for where you keep it: Barello reads ten years of daily temperatures for your town and asks which room the wine's in. The window is free, and so is sharing the cellar with the house.

It started because I'd spent a decade scanning wine into Vivino and what came back was offers to buy more, not advice on what to open. It's built in Melbourne and priced in Australian dollars. It's free to use. Here's what joining early gets you.

Point it at any label and it tells you what the crowd thinks and roughly what you should pay. Its own upgrade screen puts the drinking windows, collection value and desktop access behind Premium. Barello and Vivino, compared.

Vintec's own app. You build a copy of the cabinet, from its model number or shelf by shelf, so the app knows where each bottle sits, and its tips cover serving temperature, decanting and glassware. Scanning a label brings in Vivino's rating and price, with wine to buy through Vivino. It stopped opening for a lot of owners from mid-May 2026 and was working again by October, though its last App Store update is December 2024. Barello for OENO owners.

More than twenty years of members' tasting notes, and a drink-now list built from what members open: a wine goes on it once they've drunk more than 85 per cent of the bottles they hold. A free account tracks the cellar, and the subscription adds "enhanced coverage" of drinking windows, in its own words. Barello and CellarTracker, compared.

A cellar manager that's been on the App Store since 2012, with up to 50 fields per wine, racks you lay out yourself, and tasting notes on 5-star, 20-point or 100-point scales. It imports and exports CSV and Excel files, which matters if you ever want to leave.

Built for serious collectors, in its own words: a label database it puts at more than two million wines, an AI wine assistant, and the collection's market value. Its free plan has drink windows "on select wines" and sharing the cellar, and Premium adds the valuation and the assistant. Barello and InVintory, compared.

No tasting notes from other drinkers, no shop, and no total of what the cellar is worth. It isn't on the App Store yet: it's on Google Play for Android, and on an iPhone you open it in the browser. If community notes or valuing a collection is the point, one of the five above will suit you better.