CellarTracker

I’ve loved this app. I’ve voluntarily paid since the beginning of use in 2019. I’ll admit I paid what I considered a reasonable value for the service, $40 a year or equivalent of a decent bottle of wine for me. I don’t need reviews. I don’t need a “community”. I don’t need “drink now” assistance or photos. I just need the database function and that is solid in this app. I dread the day the old app is cut off and the upgrade to the new version is mandatory. I will not pay the excessive rates they expect. My cost would be 10x higher per year which far exceeds the value for a database function. I’ll drop it when that occurs. It’ll be a pity, but I can’t imagine the server space for my data costs that much to maintain.

This app is great. I’ve got 650 bottles. This is by far the best I’ve used. Please keep supporting this version.

I really want to like this app. Even with the latest release, this app is very limited and does not provide many features. The UI still seems quite dated and is not very intuitive. I find Vivino to be much better as a free product. If you could provide price, transparency, user reviews and expert tasting notes, I would see, and even pay for, value.

The interface is dated and clunky and is in dire need of a UX developer. The only feature that really seemed useful was the Ready to Drink list and now that’s a subscription feature, so the app is literally just a simple list of the wine I have. I could just as easily use a spreadsheet.

I used CT for 8 years. Prolly the best app out there when I started my cellar. Since then I’ve had to pay a yearly ‘voluntary’ assessment and if I missed the payment by one day then I lost data (voluntary - hmmm). Through the 8 years there’s been few changes/upgrades/improvements and now they want to charge me $160/year to use it. I’ve started looking at other apps with better evaluations (CT’s were always off), more comprehensive wine info, free critics ratings, easier functionality, much better graphics and 3D models of my wine room; all for 60% of the cost. If the designer is interested I suggest you hold off on the mandatory costs, upgrade your app and then ask for money. It’s hard to make a tough management decision that risks today dollars.

I’m not a fan of developers that get you to invest hours of time loading data into their app and then start charging $40 a year for a service they used to provide for free. I used to be able to view ending drink date to avoid bottles aging out in my cellar. Not anymore 😞

Just be aware.

I have been using it for some time. It’s excellent for tracking inventory. As far as valuing your cellar or drinking windows it’s not very accurate. I’ve emailed (as another review online suggested) to have values adjusted for market and only received lip service and a refusal to adjust the prices. Almost across the board the values assigned by cellar tracker are lower than wine searcher or any prices I’ve seen on the shelves. It is good for charts and keeping your own notes on wines and it used to track the price I paid for the bottles (as a cellar total $) but I can’t find that now so you only get their cellar value and have to look at each individual bottle to see what you paid and total it yourself. Correct me if I’m wrong. I will probably pay the $60.00 annually because there is just enough benefit to it.

Hey, I love CellarTracker, although the Corkz app had a much better visual graphics orientation. But recently, it seems like the Corkz app no longer connect to the database for CellarTracker. Did you guys have anything to do with this? Is there any chance that we your customers could convince you to reverse whatever happened?

I was a big fan of this app but now every useful feature costs money and in my opinion too much money for the features offered.