Is there an Untappd for wine?
There is no official wine version of Untappd. Vivino is the closest for scanning, ratings, friends and a public feed. Sommo is closer if the habit you want is checking in, earning progress and learning from every bottle. Delectable favours professional palates, while CellarTracker is built around a collection rather than a social feed.
Untappd works because a tiny action becomes a habit. You check in a beer, give it a score, collect a badge and see what friends opened. Wine has no official Untappd edition, but four apps reproduce different parts of that loop.
The important question is not which app looks most like Untappd. It is which part of Untappd you want to keep.
The closest matches at a glance
| App | Closest Untappd behaviour | What it does better | What is missing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vivino | Scan, rate, follow and comment | Huge label coverage and crowd consensus | Little structured learning |
| Sommo | Log, earn progress and build a history | Tasting feedback, lessons, WSET prep and a personal palate | No public rating feed |
| Delectable | Post bottles and follow a feed | More trade and sommelier voices | Smaller community and fewer practical tools |
| CellarTracker | Record bottles and tasting notes | Deep inventory, valuations and drinking windows | Feels like a database, not a game |
If you just want a ranked shortlist, the best wine apps guide compares these jobs alongside Wine-Searcher. This page is narrower: the social check-in habit.
Vivino: the closest literal answer
Vivino is the nearest wine equivalent to Untappd. Scan a label, see community ratings, add your own score and note, follow friends, then like or comment on what they drink. Its official app page describes a community of more than 70 million people, so common bottles have enough ratings to make the crowd signal useful.
That scale is also the weakness. A star average tells you what many strangers liked, not why the wine tastes the way it does or whether it suits you. Choose Vivino when the social feed and a fast shop-floor verdict are the point. The Sommo vs Vivino comparison is the honest one-to-one breakdown.
Sommo: the check-in habit with a learning loop
Sommo keeps the satisfying part of a check-in and changes what happens next. Scan a bottle, save a quick personal rating or work through a structured tasting note, earn XP and badges, then watch your palate profile develop across the wines you log.
The record is personal first. There are opt-in ways to share a tasting or compare palates, but no endless public feed and no crowd number replacing your own judgement. That makes Sommo the better answer when “Untappd for wine” means help me remember what I drank and get better at tasting, not show me what everyone else scored.
Start with the wine journal, see how label scanning turns a bottle into context, or take the free palate quiz before logging anything.
Delectable: the more curated social feed
Delectable is the feed-first option. Its appeal is not that it has the biggest crowd, but that wine professionals and serious drinkers are visible within it. Photograph a label, add a note and follow people whose palates you trust.
Choose it when the people matter more than the database. The trade-off is practical depth: it is less useful than CellarTracker for inventory and less structured than Sommo for learning.
CellarTracker: check-ins for collectors
CellarTracker turns the same basic act into a proper ledger. You can record a tasting note and score, but the system really comes alive when bottles have purchase history, cellar locations, consumption records, valuations and drinking windows. Its official support documentation also separates public tasting notes from private bottle and consumption notes, which gives collectors precise control.
For a dozen bottles it is more system than most people need. For 100 bottles it is the sensible answer. Read the Sommo vs CellarTracker comparison or the best cellar apps guide before importing a collection.
Why wine check-ins are harder than beer check-ins
A beer check-in usually identifies one packaged product. A wine label can represent a producer, cuvée, appellation and vintage, and each matters. The same named wine in 2018 and 2022 may taste different and need a different drinking window. Restaurant lighting, curved glass and decorative labels add more scanning errors.
Whichever app you choose, verify producer, cuvée and vintage before saving. A smaller accurate history teaches you more than a long list of near-matches.
The honest recommendation
Use Vivino if you want the closest copy of Untappd’s social mechanics. Use Sommo if you want the habit to improve your palate. Use Delectable if the feed is the draw, and CellarTracker if every bottle needs a bin location.
Two apps can be the right answer. A collector might use Wine-Searcher or Vivino in the shop, then Sommo for tasting and CellarTracker for inventory. The best setup is the one you will still update after the novelty of the first badge has worn off.
Try the personal version
Sommo turns a label into a lesson and keeps the record centred on your palate. Download Sommo free, scan the next bottle you open and decide whether learning beats the crowd.
Which part of Untappd do you actually want?
