A Vivino alternative for people who just want their own notes
No account, no community scores, nothing to buy. Just your wine notes and the fields you choose, with an honest table of what Vivino still does better.
No account, no community scores, nothing to buy. Just your wine notes and the fields you choose, with an honest table of what Vivino still does better.
The honest version. Vivino is better at several of these, and if those are the rows that matter to you, stay where you are. That's a good outcome too.
| Vivino | Drinklytics | |
|---|---|---|
| Label scanning | Photograph a bottle, get the wine | None, you type the name |
| Wine database | Millions of labels and vintages | None |
| Community ratings | Average score and reviews | Only your own score |
| Price comparison | What it costs where | Only the price you paid, if you note it |
| Buying wine in-app | A marketplace | Nothing to buy |
| Account required | Yes | No, no sign-up at all |
| Works offline | Needs a connection | Everything is on the device |
| Your own fields | Fixed structure | Vintage, grape, cellar, anything |
| Other drinks | Wine | Beer, spirits, coffee, tea, anything |
| Ads and subscription | Ads, plus a paid tier | Neither |
Notes that are yours. No average score sitting next to your opinion, no reviews from strangers framing the bottle before you've tasted it, nothing suggesting what to buy next.
And the fields you want: vintage, grape, producer, the shop, the occasion, whoever you drank it with.
Label scanning, and it's the big one. Pointing a camera at a bottle and having everything filled in is genuinely useful, and Drinklytics doesn't do it: there's no wine database behind it.
You also lose community ratings and prices. If you use Vivino mainly to decide what to buy in a shop, keep using it: this app is for after the cork is out, not before.
Not today. There's no camera recognition and no wine database behind it, so you type the name yourself. It's the clearest difference between the two apps.
Not yet. Vivino can export your history, so this is a question of reading that file rather than an impossible one. For now you would be starting a fresh archive. If an import is what decides it for you, tell me: it helps me judge whether to build it.
No. The only score on a wine is the one you gave it.
It records what you drank rather than what you own, so there are no bottle counts and no drink-by dates today. If you need to manage a cellar right now, a dedicated tool will do it better.
Yes. It won't be recognised, but it will be there when you're trying to remember which bottle it was.
No. No sign-up, no email, no profile, and nothing leaves the device.
Yes: no ads, no subscription, nothing to buy inside it.
Not yet, it's on the way. Leave your email on the home page to hear about it once.
Free, no account, no subscription. On iPhone? Leave your email on the home page and I'll tell you when it lands.