A wine tasting app that keeps your notes to yourself
Record what you drank, what it tasted like, and what you thought of it. No feed, no likes, no account. Your wine notes stay on your phone.
Record what you drank, what it tasted like, and what you thought of it. No feed, no likes, no account. Your wine notes stay on your phone.
A wine tasting journal works only if you actually fill it in. Drinklytics keeps the entry short: the wine, a score out of ten, and as much or as little as you want to write about it. Add a photo of the label if you like, so you recognise the bottle on the shelf a year later.
There is no right way to write a tasting note here. Two words are a valid entry.
Most wine apps decide for you which details matter. Drinklytics lets you add your own: vintage, grape, producer, region, alcohol, the price you paid, the shop you bought it from. Anything you find yourself writing twice can become a field.
Set them once in a template and every new bottle starts with them already there. The app can also build a template from the wines already in your archive.
The problem with a wine diary is not writing it, it is reading it back. Search across everything you have saved, including the tags you invented yourself: a grape, a food pairing, a producer, the evening you opened it.
"That Nebbiolo that went well with mushrooms" is a searchable thing, as long as you wrote it down once.
There is no feed here, no followers, no likes to collect. I left them out on purpose: a hobby can live in a private space, and a tasting note you write for yourself is more honest than one you write for an audience.
It also means no account. The wines you save stay on your device, and the app never asks who you are.
Yes. They are not built-in fields, they are fields you add yourself, which means you can also add the ones I never thought of. Save them in a template and they appear on every new wine.
Drinklytics doesn't do that. There's no wine database behind it, so you type what matters to you. If scanning a label and reading other people's ratings is what you want, Vivino does it well and I would use it for that.
Drinklytics records what you drank rather than what you own, so there is no bottle count and no drink-by date today. If you need to manage a cellar right now, a dedicated inventory tool will serve you better.
You score out of ten, and you can add your own numeric field if you prefer another scale. There is no imposed scoring system, because the point is that the note means something to you.
Yes, and most people do. The same app takes beer, whisky, coffee, tea, or anything else you drink, each with its own fields.
No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no profile. The app doesn't ask for personal data, and the wines you save stay on your device.
Yes, free and with no subscriptions. I don't make money from it. I built it because I kept buying wines I had already tried and forgotten.
Not yet. The iOS version is on the way, and you can leave your email on the home page to hear about it once.
Drinklytics also works for beer, spirits, coffee and every other drink. On iPhone? Leave your email and I'll tell you when it lands.