CellarTracker: Languages, Pricing, Free Tier

What CellarTracker is: tasting history and cellar inventory

CellarTracker is a tool for tracking the wines a person has tasted as well as the wines they are storing. The official support page gives that definition. It adds that CellarTracker offers numerous fields, so a user can record as little or as much about a wine collection and its tasting history as they want.

It tracks wines you have tasted and wines you store

Tasting history is the record of wines already drunk, and a cellar inventory is the list of bottles still on hand. The support page describes both in one sentence, so the definition covers the two records together rather than one of them.

A user can fill in as few or as many fields as they like. Someone who wants only a count of bottles can stop there, and someone who wants detailed notes on every wine can add more.

The shared database holds more than 3 million wines

At the core of CellarTracker is a database of more than 3 million wines, and the support page says most wine enthusiasts will find about 99% coverage in it. Both figures are the support page's own wording.

The same page says all wine-related actions begin with searching this database. A bottle is added by finding its wine in the database first, and the official search tip below covers that step.

CellarTracker app languages: English only on the App Store

The App Store listing for the CellarTracker app names one language, English. The Google Play description on the Japanese storefront is written in Japanese. The listings do not describe the in-app menus beyond the Languages field.

The App Store listing shows English as the only language

The information table on the App Store listing has a Languages field with a single entry: English. By comparison, the Shelvin listing in the Summary below lists two languages in the same field.

Google Play shows a Japanese description in Japan

On the Japanese storefront of Google Play, the About this app text of the CellarTracker app is written in Japanese. The quote below is that Japanese text, left in the original.

Its opening sentence gives three figures. CellarTracker calls itself a top-rated wine app with a 4.9 rating out of 5 stars, more than 13.6 million wine ratings and reviews, and more than 8.8 million users worldwide. These are figures CellarTracker states about itself, not the rating the store displays.

The Japanese description shows the language of the listing text, not of the app's screens. The App Store Languages field, which reads English, is the one that records the app's languages.

Official search tip: type only the first few characters

The support page advises typing as little as possible when searching. The most efficient search uses just the first few characters of the critical words: the name of a winery, the variety, the appellation, or the vineyard. That makes a search most likely to find and match an existing wine.

How to add bottles to CellarTracker: four ways to start

The official How to add bottles page lists four ways to find a wine and begin adding it in the mobile app. Each one starts from the same step the page names first: find the wine.

Four ways to add a wine to your cellar

The four ways are text search, label or barcode search, the Add Bottles workflow, and forwarding a receipt. They appear here in the order the help page gives them.

• Text search finds a wine from a short typed query.
• Label or barcode search starts from the wine's label or its barcode instead of typed words.
• The Add Bottles workflow is the third item on the help page's list, named as a workflow rather than a search.
• Forwarding a receipt starts an addition from a purchase record.

Label search sometimes misses the exact wine

Label search tries to identify the wine automatically, and CellarTracker says it does not always get the match exactly right. The app attempts to identify the wine from the label, then searches the database for the correct match. When the match is not exact, the page says CellarTracker has tried to make it easy to reach the right wine quickly.

The legacy app no longer accepts new downloads

CellarTracker has a new app and a legacy app, and the legacy app no longer accepts new downloads. The support page says the company is no longer investing in the legacy app. The company plans to keep the legacy app running in parallel with the new app until the time is right to deprecate it, meaning retire it.

CellarTracker cost: free tier and prices by cellar size

CellarTracker is free to use, with a paid subscription for additional features, and that subscription can be bought through the CellarTracker website or through Apple. The support page has a separate section for each route. The price depends on cellar size, meaning the number of bottles stored.

Is CellarTracker free? A free site and app with paid extras

Yes, the CellarTracker site and app are free, and a paid subscription gives access to additional features. The support page says a buyer can always select a different payment amount, and that there is no penalty for exceeding the cellar size of the tier purchased.

The page names the paid part only as "additional features". It does not list them.

Subscription prices run from $40 to $500 by cellar size

The support page lists six tiers, from $40 for up to 100 bottles to $500 for more than 2,500 bottles. The page gives no billing period for these prices.

CellarTracker subscription price by cellar size

Cellar size	Price
Up to 100 bottles	$40
Up to 250 bottles	$60
Up to 500 bottles	$80
Up to 1,000 bottles	$160
Up to 2,500 bottles	$320
2,500+ bottles	$500

A cellar of 1,000 bottles falls in the $160 tier. A cellar of 300 bottles falls in the $80 tier, since the $60 tier stops at 250.

The site bills in US dollars, and iOS offers monthly plans

All CellarTracker payments are in US dollars. CellarTracker supports all major credit cards, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.

On iPhone and iPad, the new app also supports monthly in-app subscriptions. Apple manages those subscriptions directly, so you cancel one from your Apple account settings.

Canceling a CellarTracker subscription and your data

Where a CellarTracker subscription is canceled depends on where it was bought, and the data a user entered stays accessible either way. A subscription bought through Apple is canceled through Apple. A subscription bought on the website has its own section on the support page.

Apple-managed subscriptions are canceled through Apple

A subscription bought through Apple is canceled in Apple's subscription management, not in the CellarTracker app. On an Apple device, the path is Settings, then iCloud Profile, then Subscriptions, where CellarTracker should appear.

CellarTracker says it has no control over that subscription. For the website route, the support page links a page called Manage Subscription.

Data you entered stays accessible after a lapse

Any data entered in CellarTracker remains accessible regardless of subscription status. The support page opens its answer with a plain yes. A lapsed or canceled subscription therefore does not remove the bottles and notes a user typed in.

What to know before you log wines in CellarTracker

CellarTracker records the wines a person has tasted and the wines they store, on a shared database of more than 3 million wines. Its App Store listing shows English as the only language. Bottles can be added four ways, and the site and the app are free, with a paid subscription priced from $40 to $500 by cellar size.

For an app whose App Store Languages field lists English and Japanese, Shelvin (App Store) is one example. Wine Inventory Apps: 5 Cellar Trackers Compared covers other wine inventory apps, and Wine Inventory Excel: Columns and Where It Breaks covers keeping an inventory in a spreadsheet. Sharing a cellar between people is covered in Wine Inventory App Sharing: Four Apps Compared.