Comparison · September 2026
InVintory is built for collectors. Barello is built for the house.
Barello is a home cellar and bar app that tells you what to open tonight, what to keep, and what you can mix from what you have. InVintory is a wine cellar app built, in its own words, for serious collectors: a big label database, an AI wine assistant, and tools to value the collection. The cellar is where the two overlap.
InVintory has a free plan, with drink windows "on select wines" in its own words, and Premium is A$184.99 a year on the Australian App Store (US$149.99 in the US). Premium adds the collection's value, the AI assistant and 3D cellars. Barello is free to use, every wine it can place gets a window moved for where you keep the bottle, and the spirits and cocktails sit beside the wine.
The short answer
| InVintory | Barello | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Serious collectors, in its own words | The household |
| Drinking windows | Free plan: "on select wines", in its own words | Free for every wine it can place, moved for where you keep the bottle |
| Share the cellar with the household | Free plan | Free |
| Collection value | Premium | Not offered |
| AI wine assistant | Premium | No |
| Add a bottle | Scan the label, or search | One photo of the label |
| Spirits | Built for wine, and takes spirits too, by its own FAQ | Yes, on the same shelf |
| Cocktails | Not in its listing | Yes, matched to what's on the shelf |
| Price | Free plan. Premium A$184.99 a year on the Australian App Store (US$149.99 in the US), after a 14-day trial. Elite by phone | Free |
What InVintory's free plan and Premium include comes from its pricing page and its FAQ, read 27 September 2026. The Australian price and the trial were read off its upgrade screen on an Australian account on 23 September 2026, and its other features come from its App Store listing. Its ratings, 218 in Australia, 4,736 in the US and 147 in Britain, come from the App Store the same day.
A window for the house the bottle's in
Every published drinking window quietly assumes a cellar at about 13 degrees, and most houses don't keep wine anywhere near it. Barello asks where you live, reads ten years of daily temperatures for your town, then asks where in the house the wine sits.
A wine fridge keeps wine at cellar temperature, so a bottle in one gets the drinking dates set for a cellar, as they are. A cupboard or a shelf is warmer, and warmth ages wine faster, so its dates come forward: ten good years in a cellar is about seven in a Melbourne cupboard. How that's worked out.
When it can't place a wine, it says so and shows no window rather than making a date up.
The cellar belongs to the household, so everyone in the house sees the same bottles, and the gin sits on the same shelf as the Shiraz. More on keeping both in one place. It's free to use. Here's what joining early gets you.
See it against your own shelf. Takes about thirty seconds to join.
Join freeWhat InVintory does well
Depth, for a serious cellar. A label database it puts at more than two million wines, racks and bins it can draw in 3D, an AI wine assistant, and imports from CellarTracker, Vivino or a spreadsheet. If you're managing a big collection and want to know what it's worth, that's a fair reason to pay for it.
What Barello doesn't do
Barello doesn't total up what the cellar is worth. That's a choice about what the price is for: Tuesday wine or birthday wine. Bottles fall into bands you set yourself, and nothing adds them together.
There's no 3D map of the racks either. If valuing a collection or mapping a big cellar bin by bin is the point, InVintory does that and this doesn't.
Questions people ask
How much does InVintory cost?
It has a free plan, which its pricing page says includes drink windows "on select wines" and adding family members to the cellar. Premium is A$184.99 a year on the Australian App Store after a 14-day free trial, read off its upgrade screen on an Australian account on 23 September 2026, and US$149.99 a year in the US. Premium adds the collection's value, an AI wine assistant and 3D cellars. There's also an Elite tier, arranged by phone.
Is there a free alternative to InVintory?
InVintory has a free plan of its own. Barello is free to use too, and it's built for a household rather than a collection: every wine it can place gets a window moved for where you keep the bottle, and the spirits and cocktails sit on the same shelf. It doesn't value a collection, which is the trade.
Does Barello give every wine a drinking window?
Every wine it can place. The window comes from the grape and the style, then moves for the house it's in. When it can't place a wine, it says so and shows no window rather than making a date up.
Does storage change when a wine is ready?
Yes. Heat runs a wine's clock faster, and every published window assumes a cellar at about 13 degrees. Barello reads ten years of daily temperatures for your town and moves the window for the room the wine's in: a wine fridge keeps the published dates, and a cupboard brings them forward.
See your own shelf do this. About thirty seconds to join, one photo per bottle, and it's free to use.
Join freeNot ready for that? The cocktail finder is free and needs no sign-up. Still weighing it up? There's a roundup of the best wine cellar apps, and Barello against Vivino, CellarTracker and OENO. What's free in Barello.