Vivino alternative
Stop collecting
other people's ratings.
SomeWine scans labels too. The difference is what happens next: a guided tasting, your own score, and a cellar that tells you when to open the bottle.
Download on the App StoreWhy people switch
Four reasons people go looking for a different wine app.
You want your palate, not the crowd average
A community score of 3.8 tells you what a few thousand strangers thought. SomeWine builds a Taste DNA profile from the wines you rate highly and matches new bottles to that.
You want to actually learn something
A free structured course covers grapes, regions, winemaking, and food pairing, with a quiz at the end of every lesson. Scanning a bottle teaches you why it tastes the way it does.
You own bottles you keep forgetting about
The cellar tracks quantity, vintage, price paid, and a drink window status: Hold, Drink Soon, Ready, or Past Peak. A daily notification tells you when a bottle enters its window.
The app you liked turned into a shop
Vivino has grown into a wine marketplace, and the shop now sits at the centre of the experience: prices, merchant listings, and buy buttons around every wine you look up. If you opened it to look something up rather than to check out, that gets tiring.
You are not shopping, you are drinking
SomeWine sells no wine. There is no marketplace, no merchant listings, and no affiliate links, so nothing in the app is steering you toward a purchase.
What SomeWine does
Everything in one app, and nothing for sale.
Compare this against whatever you use today. The list below is what SomeWine actually ships, free tier and Pro combined.
Label scanning
Identify any bottle from the label. 5 scans a month free, unlimited on Pro.
Guided tasting lesson
Scan a label and work through 5 finds for that exact bottle: colour, primary fruit, oak, tannin, and finish. Scored out of 5.
Personal ratings and notes
Your own score, free-form note, label photo, location, and price, saved to a searchable journal.
Cellar and drink windows
Full inventory with vintage, quantity, purchase price, and whether each wine is ready to open.
Menu scanner
Point your camera at a restaurant wine list and see instantly what you have tasted or own.
Receipt scanning
Photograph a wine shop receipt and every bottle lands in your cellar in one tap.
Weather-based pick
Each morning SomeWine matches the day's weather to a ready-to-drink bottle in your cellar.
Food pairings
Match a dish to wines you have already tried, or browse pairings by food.
Social feed
Follow other wine lovers, share tastings and cellar additions.
Winery wishlist
Save wineries you want to visit, organised by country, ready for your next trip.
Questions
Switching wine apps
What is the best Vivino alternative on iPhone?
It depends what you want from a wine app. If you mainly want to buy wine, a marketplace app fits. If you want to understand wine, track what you own, and build your own palate, SomeWine is designed for that.
Does SomeWine scan wine labels like Vivino?
Yes. Point your camera at a bottle and SomeWine identifies the wine. You can also scan a restaurant wine list or a purchase receipt to add bottles in bulk.
Can I import my Vivino ratings into SomeWine?
There is no automatic import today. You can rebuild quickly by scanning bottles as you drink them, and receipt scanning adds a whole purchase at once.
Is SomeWine free?
Yes, free to start: 5 label scans a month, the full wine course, ratings, tasting notes, food pairings, and the social feed. Pro adds cellar tracking, unlimited scans, guided per-bottle tasting lessons, the menu scanner, receipt scanning, and the weather-based pick.
Does SomeWine sell wine?
No. SomeWine is not a shop or a marketplace, so nothing you see is influenced by what a merchant wants to move.
Try it on the next bottle you open.
Free to start. No account needed to browse the course.
Vivino is a trademark of Vivino ApS. SomeWine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vivino. This page describes SomeWine's own features; check their site for theirs.