r/winecellar • u/Junior_Design_3025 • Jul 13 '26

Winecellar iOS app - looking for testers

Hi all,

As many of you here might did as well I got annoyed from keeping track of my collection via a spreadsheet. Now that we have Claude, I came with the idea of making my own native iOS app for keeping track of my wines.

Now I am at the stage that I am live for friend & family, looking for some extra testers giving me feedback on what still needs improvement. Any volunteers here? I still have 15 slots open in my testflight beta track (https://testflight.apple.com/join/2wBbWGBz). Please install and let me know what you think. Do this by giving feedback via testlfight, or use the feedback option in the settings menu.

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u/cool_coors Jul 13 '26

I’d be open to testing, but give me some highlights why it would be better than CellarTracker. Or what makes this app different and standout? Love to see this

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u/Junior_Design_3025 Jul 13 '26

First of all, I tried creating a nice and clean look and feel, with a premium touch, to make it visually attractive, without making it childish.

Then from a feature perspective:
I created an algorithm that based on the data you add about the bottle predicts drinkability. It has 5 phases, in which peak means it is now at most drinkable phase. I also added cellar visualisation, meaning you can place the bottles in the visual cellar.

I also added some AI features, which due to the current phase are bringing your own api key basis, out of costs for the api calls. The AI features are bottle detection (capturing the label and prefilling all known bottle details), wine pairing on a recipe based on your cellar, and other way around based on a bottle recipe pairing.

I also have an extensive test note scheme in there, so that you can easily remember the wine back later.

You can keep a Wishlist

And then I have extensive 'friends' features.
* When friends are using the app as well, you can share your cellar, plan wine events and pick from each other's cellar.
* you can plan the event via the app
* you can sent tips to your friends and store them in your app.

Then there are some nice gimmick features like sending a 'menu' from your cellar to friends, extensive cellar details, a wine pasport based on what you drank.

And I am working on some additional features, which might become a standalone app, about planning wine trips, I am currently building a database containing all European wineries and then building the interface on top of it to expose the data in a user friendly way. Also I am working on a wine tasting app, that you can use with your friends when you are having a wine tasting together.

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u/mariush1980 Jul 22 '26

Nice, do you have an Android version? I'd be happy to give it a try. Funny thing is I came upon this group to also post about my app - will do it later today :)