You shouldn’t have to create an account just to track your wine.

Every other wine app asks for an account.

Before you catalogue a single bottle, most wine tracking apps ask for an email address and a password, and three of the five best-known ones are labelled by Apple as tracking you across other companies’ apps and websites. Use this page to see how The Butler’s Book compares.

How six wine cellar apps compare

  
    
  
      App
      Account
      Where your cellar lives
      Linked to you, per Apple
      Price
    

  
      The Butler’s Book
      None
      Your own iCloud
      Nothing linked to you
      Free, unlimited wines · Full Service $2.99/mo or $19.99/yr
    

      Caviste
      Required
      Their servers, in the EU
      Email, photos, user content, user ID, purchases
      Free to 30 wines · $2.99/mo or $22.99/yr
    

      CellarTracker
      Required
      Their servers
      Email, device ID, usage
      $4.99–$44.99/yr by bottle count
    

      Vivino
      Required
      Their servers
      Identifiers and usage — and it tracks you
      Free · Premium $4.99–$57
    

      InVintory
      Required
      Their servers
      Location, contacts, content, searches — and it tracks you
      Up to $9.99/mo or $149.99/yr
    

      Oeni
      Required
      Their servers
      Identifiers and usage — and it tracks you
      $34.99–$89.99/yr
    

      VinoCell
      For sync
      Their servers
      Email, user ID
      $9.99 once
    



  
  

How this was checked

The details above are each app's own App Store listing and its privacy label, as Apple publishes them, read on 11 October 2026. Prices are from the US App Store. Reminder that apps change. If something here is out of date, write and tell us and it will be fixed!

Who The Butler’s Book is for

The Butler's Book is a fun to use tool for collectors who know what they like and enjoy collecting. Use this app for knowing what you own, where it is, and when to open it, without an account and without your collection living on anybody's server. If you are looking to read what hundreds of other people thought of the bottle in front of you, apps like CellarTracker or Vivino are a better solution for you.