Winelib

Point your phone at a bottle. Know the wine.

Winelib keeps every bottle you have tried, own or want in one cellar. AI label scanning and taste-based suggestions are coming with Pro.

Open the appAbout the AI plans
  • Free to use
  • Open source
  • Your data exports any time

Côtes du Rhône 2021

Domaine des Trois Collines

Region
Rhône Valley, FranceOn the label
Grapes
Grenache, SyrahAI estimate
Style
Medium-bodied redAI estimate
Strength
14% ABVOn the label
Drink between
2024 and 2028AI estimate
Tastes like
Dark cherry, black pepper, dried herbsAI estimate
Check the details first. You always confirm.

Preview of label scanning, which is in development. The bottles are fictional and the output is illustrative.

What works today, and what we are building

Winelib has been online since 2025. Here is exactly where each part stands.

Available now

  • Personal cellarLive

    Sign in and keep your own collection of wines, separate from everyone else's.

  • Tasted and wishlistLive

    Mark each wine as tasted, owned or wanted, and move it between lists.

  • Ratings and tasting notesLive

    Score a wine and write down what you thought while you still remember.

  • Wine searchLive

    Search wines from around the world and pull in the details instead of typing them.

  • ExportLive

    Download your cellar whenever you like. It is your data.

Coming with Pro

  • Recommendations from your preferencesIn development

    Ask for wines based on what you say you like. Moving to recommendations based on your whole history.

  • Label scanningIn development

    Photograph a label and get the wine identified, with each detail marked as read from the label or estimated.

  • Taste profileIn development

    A plain-language summary of your palate that updates as you rate.

  • Cellar-aware suggestionsIn development

    "What should I open with this dinner?" answered from bottles you already own.

Coming with Pro

Each one replaces a chore that makes people give up on keeping a wine log.

Scan a label instead of typing it

Wine labels are hard to read: curved glass, fancy lettering, bad light, labels in French, German or Spanish. The AI reads the photo and fills in the wine for you.

Every detail is marked as printed on the label or as an estimate, so you can see what to double-check.

Côtes du Rhône 2021 Domaine des Trois Collines

Region
Rhône Valley, FranceOn the label
Grapes
Grenache, SyrahAI estimate
Drink between
2024 and 2028AI estimate
BodyFull
AcidityMedium
TanninHigh
SweetnessDry
OakSome
AI read

You rate savoury, peppery reds highest and mark down sweet or heavily oaked wines. Your top-rated bottles are mostly Syrah and Grenache blends at 12 to 14% ABV.

Sample palates built from made-up ratings.

A taste profile you can read

Ratings alone are just numbers. Winelib turns them into a short description of your palate, in words, and shows which patterns it found.

The profile updates as you rate, so it stays honest when your taste changes.

Recommendations that explain themselves

Get suggestions from bottles you own or from the wider catalogue. Each one says why it fits you, and some deliberately stretch your taste.

Crozes-Hermitage, Syrah

Peppery and savoury like the Côtes du Rhône you rated 5 stars, with a little more structure.

Close to your taste

Rioja Crianza, Tempranillo

Same medium body and dried-herb notes, but softer tannin and lightly oaked.

Close to your taste

Blaufränkisch, Burgenland

Peppery like your favourites, but fresher and less alcoholic. A good first step outside the Rhône.

Worth a try

Illustrative output for a sample palate.

For anyone who drinks wine

You do not need a cellar or a certificate. You need a place to remember what you liked.

In the shop aisle

Photograph a bottle and see whether it looks like the ones you have rated highly, before you pay.

At the dinner table

Someone brought a bottle you loved. Scan it now and it is in your cellar before the plates are cleared.

With a growing collection

Hundreds of bottles, lists for tasted and wanted, notes, and an export if you ever want to leave.

Open, private and plain about what it is

Open source

The whole app is on GitHub under the MIT licence. You can read exactly how it works.

Your cellar is yours

Every collection is private to its owner. We do not sell personal data, and you can export your wines at any time.

No alcohol sales

Winelib is a record-keeping and discovery tool. It does not sell, ship or advertise alcohol, and it is meant for adults of legal drinking age.

Honest about AI

Estimates will be labelled as estimates, and you will confirm every scanned wine before it is saved. Read how we plan to use AI.

Free to start. Pro when you scan a lot.

The free plan stays free. Winelib Pro, coming soon, adds higher limits and more AI features for people who use them every week. See the full comparison.

Free

€0 always

Everything you need to keep a cellar.

  • Personal cellar, tasted and wishlist
  • Ratings and tasting notes
  • Wine search and export
  • Search wines and add them with image and price
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Pro Coming soon

€4.99 per month, planned

For people who scan and ask more. Higher limits and more AI features.

  • Much higher label-scan limits
  • Scan a whole shelf in one photo
  • Full-history taste profile, updated as you rate
  • Cellar-aware suggestions for tonight's dinner
  • Drink-window reminders for bottles you own
Join the Pro waitlist

Prices and limits are planned and may change before launch.

Built by Thijs van den Heuvel

Thijs is a wine enthusiast and software developer. Winelib started as a personal tool for remembering which bottles were worth buying again, and grew into an open source project.

Winelib is an independent project. You can read all the code on GitHub or write to info@winelib.nl.

Start your cellar with the next bottle you open.

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