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Sommo is a pocket sommelier on iPhone and iPad, built on a wine-tuned AI the maker owns and tunes himself. Trained on wine instead of the open internet. Independent, made in London, free with optional Premium.

Sommo is a personal wine app for iPhone and iPad that turns wine curiosity into expertise. Unlike apps that bolt on a generic chatbot, Sommo runs on a wine-tuned AI the maker built and owns himself, not a frontier model rented per query. The model is trained on wine, not the open web, and gets refined every week.

Point your camera at any bottle for AI tasting notes, pairings, and region context. Organise your cellar across multiple racks and describe a meal to get the right bottle picked from your collection. Sommo also includes full WSET Level 1 to 4 prep with spaced-repetition flashcards, practice quizzes, mock exams, AI-graded typed answers, and AI study plans. Independent, created by Gökhan Arkan in London, free to download.

Sommo is an iOS app for serious wine drinkers, students, and the curious in between. It combines four products wine enthusiasts usually piece together themselves: an AI label scanner, a smart wine cellar, a personal tasting journal, and a full WSET exam-prep suite. Everything runs on the same engine, which is the point.

That engine is a wine-tuned AI that Gökhan Arkan builds and owns himself, not a frontier chatbot rented per query. He started by fine-tuning a model on a curated wine corpus (professional reviews, structured ratings, regional and food-pairing data) and has been refining it weekly since. Underneath sits a hand-maintained library of canonical wines, wineries, regions, and grape varieties that every recommendation is checked against, so the wineries Sommo names are wineries that actually exist. Because the model is owned rather than rented, there is no per-query tax to pass on, which is how Premium can sit at $2.50/month yearly or $5/month rolling.

For students, Sommo ships full WSET Level 1 to 4 prep with flashcards, choice and typed practice modes, mock exams, and AI-generated study plans. For drinkers, the gamified journey awards XP across ten levels from "Curious Sipper" to "Master Sommelier", with an interactive map covering 1,000+ wine regions across 40+ countries. Independent, created by Gökhan Arkan in London, free with optional Premium.