After my post comparing 7 wine cellar apps across 200 bottles over 3 years, a bunch of you suggested more apps in the comments and DMs. Tested two of them. Here's where they landed.
- Vox Vin - Voice-native cellar management
The premise is that you don't type, you talk. "Add two bottles of the 2017 Brunello I just picked up." "What shelf is my 2015 Barolo on? Is it ready to drink?" "I just opened two bottles of the 2012 Opus One. Remove them from my collection" That's the entire interaction model.
What worked: The friction problem (typing everything in, clicking through several screens to add and remove wines from your cellar) gets simplified when you can just narrate what you bought. Querying conversationally is also weirdly natural once you stop fighting the muscle memory of tapping. The UI/UX is clean, and you can rate bottles as you drink them to drive personalized recommendations. You can also scan bottles and wine lists for further analysis.
What didn't: Found only the iOS version. It tracks wine location (Rack, Bin, Shelf) but it does not provide a 3D view of your cellar that Apps like InVintory excel at.
- Bottld
Not a cellar management app so not directly targeted at this subreddit but close enough. More a wine discovery app. You point your phone at a shelf or restaurant menu, it identifies every bottle in the photo and ranks them against a taste profile you build by rating wines you've already tried.
What worked: The shelf-scan use case is genuinely useful. Standing in an LCBO or a grocery store wine aisle staring at 200 labels is the moment a recommendation tool earns its keep. The plain-English tasting descriptions are also a nice touch - refreshingly free of the usual "hints of graphite and forest floor" routine.
What didn't: Cold start problem. Recommendations only get useful after you've rated a bunch of wines. Also, it's solving the purchase moment, not the cellar moment - once a bottle is in your rack it stops being relevant. So it's complementary to a cellar app, not a replacement.
Feel free to reach out with more apps you'd like me to review!