Is There an Untappd for Wine?
Beer drinkers have had their check-in app for years. Wine deserves one too, for the glass you forget and the evening you never do.
Yes. Drinqly is the Untappd for wine. You check in a wine, rate it, add a photo and the producer, and it lands in a searchable journal, whether you had it at a restaurant or at home. Wine-specialist apps like Vivino go deeper on scanning labels and buying bottles; Drinqly is the check-in-and-remember loop for wine and every other drink you enjoy.
Drinqly is a free download for iPhone.
Get Drinqly on the App StoreHere's the thing, I'm personally not a wine drinker. I almost never order it, and I was so sure I had never even photographed a glass despite the fact that I knew I'd taken hundreds of drink photos. Somewhere past those hundreds, I found exactly ONE. A single glass of red. I can't tell you what it was, whether it was any good, or one honest detail about how it tasted. What I can tell you is that the second the photo loaded I knew the location, and I was transported back to Palm Springs five years ago: the farmers market on Saturday, a long lunch at Tommy Bahama's, the hotel, one of the best trips I've ever taken. I lost the wine completely. The wine handed me back the whole week.
Now does Untappd support wine? Yeah, kind of. But wine drinkers aren't just trying to build a database, unless it's their personal cellar collection. When you're out drinking a glass of chardonnay, you want to remember the EXPERIENCE. The ambience of the winery, the way it paired with the charcuterie board. Untappd is built to remember the drink, not everything else that comes along with it.
I could not tell you a thing about the wine. The photo of it gave me back an entire vacation.
Two kinds of wine app
"Wine app" covers two jobs that barely touch, and knowing which one you want saves a lot of downloading and deleting.
Apps for identifying and buying wine
Vivino is the giant here. Point your phone at a label, read a community score, buy the bottle from its marketplace in a couple of taps. Delectable reads labels too, and CellarTracker is built for people cataloging a real cellar. They're genuinely good at it. My one gripe: Vivino's marketplace turns plain curiosity about a glass into a checkout line. If you're stocking up, that's the feature. At dinner, in the way.
Apps for remembering the wine you drank
This is the Untappd side, and it's what most people typing "Untappd for wine" are really after. You had a glass. It stopped you mid-sentence. You want to find it again someday, and you need it somewhere that outlasts the last course. That's what Drinqly is built around: check the wine in, rate it, keep it where you can search.
| If you want to… | Vivino & wine-only apps | Drinqly |
|---|---|---|
| Scan a label / buy the bottle | Their strength | No (no marketplace) |
| Remember wines you drank | Part of it | The whole point |
| Log ones you had at a restaurant | Sometimes | Yes, with the venue |
| Rate & photograph a glass | Yes | Every check-in, half-stars |
| See friends' pours | Wine community | Friends + worldwide feed |
| Keep cocktails, spirits & coffee too | No | Same journal |
None of this makes Vivino worse at its own job. Scanning labels and moving bottles are real strengths, and a fair comparison says so. The table just sorts which app answers which question. For the full head to head, see Drinqly vs Vivino.
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The wine you had out
This is where a check-in app earns its keep. You're at dinner, the list runs four pages, and the glass you finally land on is quietly perfect. In a scan-and-buy app that moment slips past unless the label happens to be in frame, and at a restaurant it never is. In Drinqly you check the wine in against the venue, note the producer, give it a rating. Ten seconds. Months later you can pull up what it was and where. The social part that made Untappd fun, seeing friends' pours and sharing your own, rides along, plus a worldwide feed of what people are drinking everywhere.
And it's not only wine
Here's the other half. I don't only drink wine, and neither do you. There's the Sunday bottle, the Friday Negroni, the neat whiskey after a long day, the Monday flat white. Different drinks, different weeks. A wine-only app sends all of that somewhere else, into three more apps you forget to open. Drinqly keeps them on one timeline, so the Barolo sits a scroll from the espresso. If that's the part you care about, the fuller version lives on the Untappd for everything you drink.
Common questions
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Can I log wine and other drinks in one app?
Is there a wine app with a social feed and check-ins?
Log the next wine you love.
Check it in, rate it, remember it. Free on iPhone.
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