The Cellar Schematic

No account, no subscription for the app. The optional AI features use your own OpenAI key — your data stays yours, and setup is guided step-by-step inside the app.

The Cellar Schematic is a modern cellar book for people who care about what's in the glass.

Add bottles two ways: scan a label, or type a wine in when the bottle isn't in front of you. Every field is editable either way. Connect AI in Settings and it fills in producer, vintage, region, grape, drinking window and critics' notes. The AI reads each wine rather than matching a catalogue, so anything from a grand cru to a local bottle finds its place.

ADD WITHOUT THE BOTTLE

Some wine you never hold before it's yours — delivered straight to storage, bought en primeur, or kept by a friend. Tap + and type it in: with AI, three fields (producer, wine, vintage) are enough and it completes the rest. No photo? The wine shows a clean cellar card until you add one — from your camera or photo library, or let the app find the real label online for you to approve.

DRINKING WINDOWS

Each bottle is classified Hold, Drink Now, Drink Soon, or Past Peak — and you can override the window any time.

THE VIRTUAL SOMMELIER (optional AI feature)

Ask what to open tonight, what pairs with the salmon, or which bottles are ready now. Recommendations come from your own cellar, not a generic database.

THE VIRTUAL CONCIERGE (optional AI feature)

Tap and ask. The Concierge answers questions about the app itself, in plain language — time pouring, not reading manuals.

WHERE TO BUY (optional AI feature)

Find current retailers for any wine near you, with prices in your local currency and a clear best-price call-out. Discover similar bottles when yours isn't available, or source a whole buying list from one or two retailers in a single sweep.

THE CELLAR SCHEMATIC

A signature radial diagram — five rings for category, drinkability, vintage, grape and country — that turns your collection into a single, considered image. Shareable, anonymised, and unmistakably yours.

See where every bottle lives. The Cellar tab's second view — the Plans — shows not what you hold but where it lies: each storage area drawn to plan, a circle for every bottle exactly where it sits. Racks and fridges are grids, bins numbered compartments, far storage a tidy manifest. Build it up front or let it appear as you add wines — and find any bottle at a glance.

A SHARED CELLAR

Invite a partner, a household, or a tasting circle to one cellar via iCloud. Everyone adds and updates together, seeing the same shelves in real time.

BUILT FOR SERIOUS CELLARS

Designed for cellars up to 5,000 bottles. Bring a lifetime's collecting across from CellarTracker or Vivino in moments, and everything keeps pace — search, the Schematic, and the Plans drawing every bottle in its place.

ALSO INSIDE

Tasting notes, personal ratings, food pairings, and critics' summaries The Vault — reserve bottles kept out of everyday recommendations The Buying List — flag bottles to acquire and source them together Store a wine in several locations, with a per-location breakdown Search and filter by colour, region, grape, location, or drinkability Import existing cellars from Vivino or CellarTracker exports Dark and light appearance

OPTIONAL AI

Scanning, typed-in completion, label finding, the Sommelier, the Concierge and the buying tools run on your own OpenAI account, connected once in Settings. No subscription, no markup: you pay OpenAI directly for what you use, typically a fraction of a cent per scan or question and well under a dollar a month for most people. Your key stays in your device's Keychain and your requests go straight to OpenAI — never through us.

Setup is one-time and guided from Settings. It's entirely optional: without AI, scanning still saves the bottle and photo for you to fill in by hand, and everything else — drinking windows, the Plans, the Schematic, sharing, search, imports — works with no AI at all.

YOUR CELLAR, YOUR ICLOUD

Future updates are included. Your cellar lives in your own iCloud account, not on our servers — your collection stays yours, on devices you own.