Is There an Untappd for Wine?
Beer drinkers have had their check-in app for years. Wine deserves the same, for the bottle at dinner and the glass you never want to forget.
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.
Search for an Untappd for wine and you will find a few wine-specific apps, most of them built around scanning a label to see a rating, or buying the bottle. Those are genuinely useful. But it is a slightly different need from the one Untappd actually solved, which was never really about beer. It was about remembering the glass you just had and seeing what everyone else was drinking. For wine, that app is Drinqly.
The short version
- Most wine apps are built to scan a label or sell you a bottle.
- Drinqly is the check-in loop, rate, photo, producer, note, for wine.
- It works for wine at a restaurant, a winery, or your own table.
- Friends feed, worldwide feed, and venue discovery come with it.
- The same journal also holds your cocktails, spirits, beer, and coffee.
Two kinds of wine app
It helps to name the split, because "wine app" covers two very different jobs.
Apps for identifying and buying wine
Vivino is the best-known here: point your phone at a label, see a community rating, and often buy the bottle through its marketplace. Delectable does label recognition too, and CellarTracker is built for managing a cellar. If your main need is scanning a shelf or stocking a collection, those are the tools.
Apps for remembering the wine you drank
This is the Untappd side, and it is what a lot of people are really after. You are not trying to buy a case or catalog a cellar; you want to note that the little natural red the sommelier poured was the best glass you had all year, rate it, and be able to find it again. That is what Drinqly does.
Scanning apps answer "what is this bottle, and can I buy it?" Drinqly answers "what did I love, and where do I get it again?" Those are different apps, and the second one is the Untappd-shaped hole.
| If you want to… | Vivino & wine-only apps | Drinqly |
|---|---|---|
| Scan a label / buy the bottle | Their strength | No (it's a journal, not a shop) |
| 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 what it does; scanning labels and selling bottles are genuinely its strengths, and a fair comparison says so. If your question is instead "what did I drink and love," this is the side you want. For a full head-to-head, see Drinqly vs Vivino.
The wine you had out
This is where a check-in app earns its keep. You are at dinner, the list is a novel, and the glass you land on is unexpectedly perfect. In a scan-and-buy app that moment often slips past unless the label happens to be in frame. In Drinqly you check it in against the restaurant, note the producer, give it a rating, and months later you can pull up exactly what it was and where you had it. The same social layer that made Untappd fun, seeing friends' pours, sharing your own, works here too, plus a worldwide feed of what people are drinking everywhere.
And it is not only wine
The reason to keep your wine log in Drinqly rather than a wine-only app is that you do not only drink wine. The Sunday bottle, the Friday Negroni, the neat whiskey after dinner, the Monday flat white; they all belong on one timeline, not scattered across four apps you forget to open. Drinqly is the check-in journal for every drink, so your wine lives next to everything else you love. That is the fuller story on the Untappd for everything you drink.