A cellar, properly kept.
Cellar Schematic is the iOS app for collectors who take their wine - and their privacy - seriously.
The essentials
Scan the label. We do the rest.
Every bottle in your cellar arrived through your judgement. Logging it shouldn’t take more than a moment. Cellar Schematic reads the label, identifies the wine, and files it where it belongs.
Scan
Open the camera. Frame the label. The wine is identified - producer, vintage, region, varietal - and offered up for your review.
Refine & save
Nothing is saved until you say so. Adjust what the AI proposes; add the notes that matter to you; commit when it’s right.
Share
Invite a partner, a collaborator, a sommelier. Sharing is built in, with the controls you would expect.
No subscription - Your data stays in your iCloud - You pay only for your own OpenAI key, and only when you use it.
Your Virtual Sommelier
A second opinion, always at hand.
Match wines to a dish, a course, or an evening
Explore your cellar the way you explore a wine list
surface bottles you’d forgotten you owned
Reach for the right bottle, not the nearest one
“It’s one thing to own the wine. It is another to remember it at the right moment.”
The Virtual Sommelier knows what you have. Tell it what you’re cooking, the occasion, the company - it walks your own cellar and proposes the bottles that will pair best. Not a suggestion from a database. A suggestion from your own collection.
The view
Inventory, and a portrait of the whole
A serious cellar deserves more than a list. The Cellar Schematic gives you both - a precise working inventory, and a single, considered drawing of the entire collection.
Your cellar, drawn
The signature view. A Renaissance technical drawing of your entire collection - construction circle, cardinal axis, compass-tick ring, distinct wines and total bottles named at the centre.
Beautiful enough to share. Honest enough to plan from.
The list refined.
Filter by region, vintage, producer, drink window, location. See what’s ready, what’s holding, what’s slipping past peak. Sort with one tap; act on what you see.
In motion
A minute with the app
A short walk through scanning a label, asking the Virtual Sommelier for a pairing, and arriving at the Cellar Schematic. No narration to wade through.
Your cellar, your cloud, your call
Plain about price. Plainer about your data.
The app is a one-time purchase on the App Store - US$14.99 , shown in your local currency. No monthly fee. No premium tier. No upsell.
Your wines, notes, photographs, and shared cellars live in your own iCloud account. They sync across your Apple devices the way Apple intended. We do not run a server that holds your collection - and so we cannot sell, mine or analyse what we cannot see.
Recognising labels uses an AI model from OpenAI. Rather than mark up that cost and bill you monthly, we ask you to bring your own OpenAI API key. You pay OpenAI directly, only when you scan, and only for what you use. In practice, a scan costs a fraction of a cent.
No subscription . iCloud-native. Bring your own key
Open your cellar
Available on iPhone and iPad
A one-time purchase of US$14.99 (in your local currency), plus pay-as-you-go OpenAI usage
The Cellar Schematic™
Last updated: 25 May 2026
The Cellar Schematic is a personal wine cellar app, designed and operated as an independent product. This policy explains what data the app handles, where it lives, and what we do — and do not — see.
The short version: we don't collect, store, or analyse your personal information. Your cellar lives in your own iCloud account. The optional AI features call OpenAI directly using a key you supply. We have no servers handling your wines, your photos, your notes, your usage, or anything else about you.
Information we don't collect
We do not collect, store, or transmit:
Your name, email address, billing details, or any account information
Your location, device identifiers, advertising identifiers, or any analytics
Your wines, photos, tasting notes, ratings, prices, or sharing activity
Any usage data, crash reports, telemetry, or behavioural information
The app contains no third-party analytics, tracking, or advertising SDKs. Your purchase of the app is handled entirely by Apple under Apple's own terms.
Where your cellar data lives
All of your cellar data — wines, tasting notes, photos, drinking windows, storage locations, vault entries, and any shared-cellar participants — is stored in your own iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit framework. It syncs between your Apple devices through Apple's iCloud infrastructure.
We have no servers that hold your cellar. We cannot see your wines, your notes, your photos, or who you share with. If you delete the app and remove its iCloud data, your cellar is gone.
iCloud sync is governed by Apple's iCloud terms and privacy practices.
The AI features and OpenAI
Three features in the app use AI from OpenAI: label scanning, the Virtual Sommelier, and the Virtual Concierge.
These features require you to supply your own OpenAI API key, which is stored on your device and is never transmitted to us. When you use one of these features, your request — the label image, your Sommelier question, or your Concierge question — is sent directly from your device to OpenAI for processing. The response comes back to your device.
We are not in that loop. We do not see your requests or responses. Your data is handled by OpenAI under OpenAI's API privacy terms, and you are OpenAI's customer for billing purposes. Typical costs are a few cents per scan or conversation.
If you do not add an OpenAI key, none of these features run and nothing leaves your device.
Cellar sharing
When you share a cellar with another person via iCloud, that sharing happens through Apple's CloudKit Sharing. Apple manages the share invitation and the participant access. We do not see the share, the participants, or the cellar contents. Each shared participant uses their own OpenAI API key for AI features — keys are not shared.
Vivino and CellarTracker imports
If you import wines from Vivino or CellarTracker, the import reads a CSV file that you export and place on your own device. The app processes that file locally; nothing is sent to Vivino, CellarTracker, or any other service. We are not affiliated with either company.
Children's privacy
The Cellar Schematic is intended for adults. The app does not knowingly handle data from anyone under the age legally permitted to consume alcohol in their jurisdiction.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes to this policy, the updated version will appear here with a new date. Continued use of the app after changes are posted constitutes acceptance.
Contact
For privacy questions or anything else, write to contact@thecellarschematic.com. For help with the app, support@thecellarschematic.com. Both inboxes are read by a real person.