Wine apps · 2026
The best wine apps of 2026
Eight apps, ranked by the job each one is genuinely best at rather than by which has the most features.
Published 24 August 2026
The short answer
The best wine app in 2026 depends on the job. For identifying and buying a bottle, Vivino. For managing a real collection, CellarTracker. For learning wine and tasting on your own palate, SomeWine. For price checking, Wine-Searcher. For rack-level cellar organisation, InVintory.
That sounds like a dodge, so here is the sharper version: these apps only look alike because they all scan labels. Underneath, three of them are inventory databases, two are marketplaces, one is a price engine, and two are built around learning. Picking the "best" one without deciding which of those you want is how people end up with four wine apps and no notes.
Every ranking below is written against a job. Ratings counts are read live from the App Store, and they matter here — a wine app with 48 ratings and a wine app with 135,000 are not the same kind of bet, and the newest apps on this list are the ones with the least proof behind them.
How this was judged
Ranked on what the app is for, how recently it shipped a build, and whether it earns its place for a specific reader rather than in general. App Store rating counts and release dates are read from the iTunes Lookup API. Feature claims come from each app’s own listing. SomeWine is our app and is placed where its job wins, not at the top.
The ranking
Vivino
135,222 ratings · 4.8★ · last shipped August 2026Best overall for identifying and buying wine
The largest label database in existence, and the only app here that reliably identifies a supermarket bottle nobody has ever reviewed. If you scan to decide whether to buy, nothing else is close. The trade is that the marketplace now sits at the centre of the app.
CellarTracker
12,603 ratings · 4.9★ · last shipped August 2026Best for a serious collection
Two decades of community tasting notes, drinking windows, valuation, and the export format everyone else imports from. Dated interface, actively maintained, and unbeatable once you own more bottles than you can remember.
SomeWine
No ratings yet · last shipped August 2026Best for learning wine
A 32-lesson course with quizzes, a guided tasting on every scanned bottle, ratings built on your own palate rather than a crowd average, and a scanner that reads a whole restaurant wine list and ranks it for your taste and your dish. No ratings history yet — it shipped in July 2026.
InVintory
4,505 ratings · 4.8★ · last shipped August 2026Best for rack-and-bin organisation
Maps a physical cellar to real locations and imports from CellarTracker, Vivino or a spreadsheet, which is the hardest part of switching. Built to be paid for.
Wine-Searcher
17,077 ratings · 4.8★ · last shipped August 2026Best for checking a price
A price-comparison engine with a scanner attached. In front of a shelf wondering whether €38 is fair, it beats everything else on this page combined.
Sommo
48 ratings · 4.9★ · last shipped August 2026Best-looking cellar
A 3D wine wall you can orbit and drag bottles around in, plus a scanner, a tasting journal and a wine school. Launched January 2026, so the track record is thin, but it ships constantly.
Oeni
774 ratings · 4.7★ · last shipped July 2026Best minimal cellar manager
Inventory and scanning, cleanly, with no course, feed or shop attached. If every other app on this list feels overloaded, this is the answer.
Delectable
25,910 ratings · 4.7★ · last shipped September 2021Best for reading the trade — with a caveat
Built around following named sommeliers and winemakers, an idea still without a real replacement. Its last release was September 2021, so treat it as an archive rather than somewhere to keep five years of notes.
| Feature | SomeWineNo ratings yet | Vivino135,222 ratings · 4.8★ | CellarTracker12,603 ratings · 4.9★ | InVintory4,505 ratings · 4.8★ | Sommo48 ratings · 4.9★ | Oeni774 ratings · 4.7★ | Delectable25,910 ratings · 4.7★ | Wine-Searcher17,077 ratings · 4.8★ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scan a restaurant wine list | Yes — every bottle ranked for your taste and your dish | Yes — ranked by community average, not your palate | No | No | Scans a tasting flight card, not a restaurant list | No | No | No |
| Ranked to your own palate | Yes — Taste DNA built from what you rate | Recommendations from a crowd score | Community ratings and critic scores | An AI sommelier over what you own | AI picks from what you already own | No | Notes from sommeliers you follow | Critic scores and market prices |
| Structured course and quizzes | Yes — 32 lessons with quizzes, free | No | No | No | Yes — a wine school section | No | No | No |
| Cellar with drink windows | Yes — Hold, Drink Soon, Ready, Past Peak | Cellar tracking, no drink-window states | Yes — drinking windows and valuation | Yes — rack, bin and location mapping | Yes — a 3D wine wall with drinking windows | Yes — the whole point of the app | A journal, not a cellar | No |
| Label scanning | Yes — 5 free a month, unlimited on Pro | Yes — the largest label database there is | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes — unlimited and free | Yes — to find a price, not a tasting note |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes, with Vivino Premium | Yes, with paid tiers | Free tier, built to be paid for | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, with Pro |
| Sells wine to you | No — nothing here is influenced by a merchant | Yes — a wine marketplace | No | No | No | No | Yes | Sends you to merchants |
| Last shipped an update | Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | Jul 2026 | Sept 2021 | Aug 2026 |
Questions people ask
What is the best wine app in 2026?
For identifying and buying wine, Vivino. For managing a collection, CellarTracker. For learning wine and rating on your own palate, SomeWine. For price checking, Wine-Searcher. There is no single winner because these apps do four different jobs behind a shared label scanner.
What is the best free wine app?
Vivino, CellarTracker, Oeni, Sommo, Delectable and SomeWine all have free tiers. On the free tier specifically, Vivino gives you the most because unlimited scanning against the biggest database costs nothing; SomeWine gives you 5 scans a month plus the entire 32-lesson course.
Which wine app has the best label scanner?
Vivino, on database size — it identifies obscure bottles the others miss. SomeWine is the only one that scans a whole restaurant wine list and ranks every bottle for your taste and your dish, which is a different job from identifying one label.
Do I need to pay for a wine app?
Not to scan and rate wine. You pay when you want inventory management at scale (CellarTracker, InVintory), unlimited scanning, or the features built on top — in SomeWine, Pro covers the cellar, the menu scanner, receipt scanning and guided per-bottle tastings.
Which wine apps are still actively maintained?
Vivino, CellarTracker, Wine-Searcher, InVintory, Oeni, Sommo and SomeWine have all shipped builds in the last two months. Delectable last shipped in September 2021.
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SomeWine publishes this guide and SomeWine appears in it — said plainly rather than buried. Every other app named is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SomeWine. Ratings and release dates are read from the iTunes Lookup API; feature descriptions come from each app’s own App Store listing as of 24 August 2026.