Best Wine Cellar App in 2026: CellarTracker vs InVintory vs Vivino vs Sommo

The best wine cellar app depends on the job. CellarTracker is the best free record for a serious collection, backed by millions of community tasting notes. InVintory is best for seeing exactly where each bottle sits, with 3D mapping on its paid Premium plan. Vivino is best for discovering and buying wine rather than running a cellar, and Oeni suits collectors who track value alongside maturity. Sommo is best for collectors who buy wine to drink it: its Premium cellar shows every rack as a 3D wine wall, marks each bottle young, ready or declining, sends a push alert in the apps when one enters its peak, and picks a bottle from your own racks for tonight’s dinner, on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, for $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the US; prices vary by country and store.

This guide is published by Sommo, which I (Gökhan) build. Rival details come from each company’s official pages, checked 19 October 2026. Because Sommo publishes it, I say where a rival is the better choice.

Quick picks

• Best free record for a serious collection: CellarTracker
• Best for a 3D map of your racks and collection value: InVintory
• Best for scanning and rating before you buy: Vivino
• Best for ageing alerts and valuation: Oeni
• Best for choosing tonight’s bottle from your own racks: Sommo
• Under about 50 bottles: a spreadsheet may be enough. Start with our inventory template.

CellarTracker vs InVintory vs Vivino vs Oeni vs Sommo at a glance

“Not documented” means the official pages I checked do not describe that feature, not that it is definitely absent. Vivino’s own help page on export wasn’t reachable when I checked in October 2026; its web route (Settings, Account Management, Export your data) comes from Vivino’s 2018 post and current third-party guides, listed in the Vivino export steps.

CellarTracker: best free record for a serious collection

CellarTracker gives everyone free inventory, community tasting notes and ratings, on desktop web, mobile web and its iPhone and Android apps. Its location and bin fields let you record where each bottle sits across a home rack, offsite storage or several rooms.

The subscription guide prices the paid tier by cellar size: $40 a year up to 100 bottles, $60 up to 250, $80 up to 500, $160 up to 1,000, $320 up to 2,500 and $500 beyond that, and you may choose a different amount. Subscribers get market and auction prices, automatic valuation, enhanced drinking-window coverage, Drinkability Alerts, barcode labels and the CellarChat AI. The 14-day trial is only available through the iOS in-app subscription.

For a backup, use the full desktop export; notes and history may need separate views. The CellarTracker alternative page covers switching in more depth.

InVintory: best for a 3D map of your racks

InVintory focuses on where bottles physically live. Its Free plan includes unlimited bottles, up to 10 cellars and fridges, 10 tags, CSV export, community reviews, market value on single wines, drinking windows on select wines and one conversation with Vincent, its AI assistant.

Premium costs $149.99 a year (billed in CAD in Canada, USD elsewhere). It adds VinLocate 3D cellars and fridges with bottle locating, total collection value and analytics, the full Vincent assistant, critic reviews, delivery tracking and up to 20 cellars. Elite, priced on request, puts the whole cellar in one bespoke 3D view and adds sensors, according to the plan guide.

It imports from a spreadsheet, CellarTracker or Vivino and exports CSV or PDF. Apps cover iPhone, iPad and the web, and the help centre still labels Android as beta. The CellarTracker vs InVintory comparison goes deeper on that pair.

Vivino: best for scanning and rating before you buy

Vivino’s strength is discovery. Label and wine-list scanning, a database of more than 16 million wines, community ratings and a marketplace make it useful in a shop or restaurant, as its complete guide describes.

The cellar is secondary. Free users can add a limited number of wines; Premium gives the full cellar on mobile and desktop, estimated collection value and drinking-window indicators. The Premium pricing guide lists $4.99 a month or $47.90 a year in the US (£4.99 or £47.90 in the UK), and prices vary by country.

Choose Vivino when discovery and buying matter most. If precise bottle positions or pairing from your own stock are essential, test those workflows before moving a collection. The Vivino vs CellarTracker comparison separates the two jobs.

Oeni: best for ageing alerts and valuation

Oeni is freemium. Oeni Plus costs €4.99 a month or €44.99 a year on Oeni’s own site, with a 30-day free trial; app-store prices differ by store, and the US App Store lists several annual tiers. Plus covers ageing phases and peak alerts, monthly market valuation with capital gains, and personalised pairings from more than 5,000 dishes matched to your cellar. A 3D virtual cellar helps you locate bottles, on iOS, Android and the web.

You can import from Oeni’s Excel template; its import help explains how entries are matched. Export is “Export for Insurance”, a PDF only, which is a readable record rather than an importable file. The catalogue holds more than 500,000 wines, and Oeni’s own comparison with Vivino says it may have gaps for niche, micro-producer or non-European wines.

Sommo: best for choosing tonight’s bottle from your own racks

In Sommo’s wine cellar, each rack is a 3D wine wall you can orbit, pinch into and drag bottles around by hand. Named racks such as Kitchen or Cellar have their own rows, columns and depth, with each slot up to twelve bottles deep. A foil collar shows young, ready or declining, and on iOS, Android and HarmonyOS a push alert arrives as a bottle moves through its window, including when it enters its peak. Open Tonight picks the bottle most worth opening now, plus one or two runners-up.

Describe dinner and AI pairing recommends a bottle from your cellar and tells you which rack to grab it from. If nothing truly fits, it says so, shows the nearest options and suggests a grape, style or region to buy. In the iOS, Android and HarmonyOS apps, Open Bottle on a pairing pick takes it off your stock and moves it to Recently Opened to rate, and Add to Journal opens a journal entry for that wine.

You can import a CellarTracker export or a spreadsheet on the web, CSV and Excel export are free on every plan, and one subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.

The catch: the cellar is Premium only ($4.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the US; prices vary by country and store). There’s a 3-day free trial on monthly, and on yearly on iPhone and the web (on the web, for eligible first-time accounts); you add a payment method and it renews automatically unless you cancel. Sommo also has no collection valuation or community note archive; it records what you paid. If you need those, keep CellarTracker or Oeni alongside it.

Read cost, estimates and readiness separately

When evaluating a cellar app, keep three questions separate: what you recorded paying, what an estimated retail range covers, and when a wine may be enjoyable to drink. A retail estimate is guidance, not a live merchant quote, an appraisal or the proceeds you could expect from selling a bottle. A drinking window does not establish financial value.

Here is a synthetic illustration using invented figures, not a price quote:

The recorded costs are GBP £20 and EUR €18. The illustrative estimate is GBP £22 to £30 and covers one of two bottles. Bottle B’s missing estimate is unknown, not zero. Do not subtract these mixed-currency amounts or turn the difference for A into an investment return. If an app offers an approximate converted total, check its currency breakdown and conversion basis before using it.

Try the same small test collection everywhere

Use a synthetic collection before trusting any app with your full history:

For 20 bottles, this sample may reveal that a spreadsheet is enough. At 100 or 500, evaluate update frequency, locations and record complexity; those counts are examples, not hard thresholds. Start with the inventory template and keep a backup whichever app you choose.

If you test Sommo, its web importer accepts CellarTracker exports and spreadsheets as CSV or XLSX files (not .xls or password-protected files), up to 10 MiB, 5,000 rows, 60 columns and 20 sheets per file, with a wine name on every row. You review every row before confirming, and it never asks for your CellarTracker password. Journal imports are free; cellar imports need Premium. There is no pending-delivery destination, so add bottles that have not arrived yet once they do.

Where to go next

• See how racks, drinking windows and pairing work on the wine cellar feature page.
• Try the cellar playground in your browser before you sign up.
• Compare plans on the pricing page.
• Moving from another app? Follow the guide to switching wine cellar apps.

Download Sommo and keep your current inventory until a small test gives you a practical reason to change.

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