The Vivino alternative for collectors who want a real cellar — not a marketplace.
CellarLog is the modern Vivino alternative for serious wine collectors. AI label scanning that's actually for cataloging your collection, drinking-window tracking that nudges you to pour at peak, and an Apple Watch companion — all without ads, social-network upsells, or pushing you toward Vivino's wine shop. Your cellar, your data.
Download on the App StoreWhy CellarLog instead of Vivino?
Vivino is brilliant at one thing: scanning a label at a restaurant or wine shop to see what other people thought of the bottle in front of you. Where it falls short is the moment you've started buying wines to age. The Vivino app is built around discovery and shopping, not around managing a cellar that grows over years. The cellar features sit behind Premium, the drinking-window tracking is rudimentary, and the experience is constantly trying to convert you into a Vivino customer.
CellarLog flips the priority. It's a cellar management app first, with AI label scanning and community-grade tasting notes built in. There's no marketplace. There are no ads. There's no need to share your collection publicly to use any feature. The drinking-window logic is precise per vintage and color, and the Apple Watch app means your cellar is on your wrist when you walk into the wine shop without your phone.
No ads, no marketplace
CellarLog makes money from a clear premium tier. No upsells, no recommended bottles trying to convert you, no sponsored content.
Cellar-first, not discovery-first
Built around the bottles you own, not the bottles you might buy. Every feature serves your existing collection.
Per-vintage drinking windows
Vivino's window data is shallow; CellarLog gets per-vintage start, peak, and extended-end years from AI plus critic consensus.
Apple Watch companion
Your cellar, wishlist, and tonight's peak picks on your wrist. Vivino doesn't ship a watch app.
Local-first with iCloud sync
Your data lives on your devices and syncs through your personal iCloud, not a vendor's server.
Lifetime purchase available
$49.99 once unlocks everything forever. Vivino Premium is subscription-only.
What you keep when you switch
Your wishlist, your tasting notes, and your photos all come with you. CellarLog has CSV import for spreadsheet-driven migrations and supports manual entry too, so even if Vivino's data export is limited (it's locked behind Premium and the format is constrained), you can rebuild your library quickly: scan the bottles you own with your iPhone camera and CellarLog's AI fills in the metadata for each one. Most users report being fully migrated within a single weekend.
How CellarLog compares to Vivino
| Feature | CellarLog | Vivino |
|---|---|---|
| AI wine label scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cellar management as the core experience | ✓ | secondary to discovery |
| Drinking-window tracking with peak alerts | ✓per-vintage | basic |
| Cellar map & rack layout | ✓ | — |
| Apple Watch companion | ✓ | — |
| Home Screen & Lock Screen widgets | ✓ | — |
| NFC tag integration | ✓ | — |
| Bluetooth label printing | ✓native | — |
| No ads, no marketplace, no upsells | ✓ | — |
| Local-first with iCloud sync | ✓ | — |
| CSV import & export | ✓with preview & diff | limited (Premium) |
| Lifetime purchase option | ✓ | — |
If Vivino is the IMDb of wine — great for discovery and ratings — CellarLog is your private library. Both have a place. But for tracking your own cellar over years, CellarLog is what Vivino's cellar mode wishes it could be.
Pricing
Vivino Premium is subscription-only and built around their wine marketplace. CellarLog is a clean transaction with no recurring lock-in if you choose lifetime — top up AI scans à la carte from $0.99 only when you need them.
Comparison based on publicly available information as of 2026 — features, pricing, and offerings may change. Vivino is a trademark of Vivino A/S.