A cellar, properly kept.
Cellar Schematic is the iOS app for collectors who take their wine — and their privacy — seriously.
The essentials
Built around how you actually keep your cellar
Every bottle in your cellar arrived through your judgement. Logging it shouldn’t take more than a moment. Cellar Schematic can read the label, identify the wine, and file it where it belongs.
Scan
Scan
Frame the label and tap. If you've connected AI in Settings, the app fills in producer, vintage, region, and varietal automatically — review, edit, save.
Or add by hand
Every field is editable. Some collectors prefer the rhythm of typing it out — and the app works equally well either way.
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 · AI features are optional and use your own OpenAI account.
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
Share the recommendations
“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.
One purchase, no surprises.
The Cellar Schematic is a single, one-time purchase on the App Store. No subscription. No premium tier. No upsell. No tracking. No analytics. No data resold.
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.
You have the option to use AI for label recognition, the Virtual Sommelier, and the Virtual Concierge. Rather than build that into the app, we ask you to connect your own OpenAI account in Settings — your usage stays between you and OpenAI, and we never see it.
No subscription · iCloud-native · Bring your own key
Open your cellar
Available on iPhone and iPad
A one-time purchase. No app subscription. Optional AI features connect to your own OpenAI account.
The Cellar Schematic™
Last updated: 21 June 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. The key is stored in the iOS Keychain on the device where you entered it — it is never transmitted to us and it is not synced to your other devices through iCloud. 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 and API terms, and you are OpenAI's customer for billing purposes.
If you do not add an OpenAI key, none of these features run and nothing leaves your device.
Permissions the app requests
Camera — when you tap Scan to photograph a wine label.
Photo library — only if you choose to import an existing photo from your library instead of using the camera.
Location(when in use) — only when you log a tasting note or a pour entry on a wine. If you've granted location permission, the app uses Apple's geocoder to convert your current position into a readable place name. The name can be as specific as a street address (for example, " street address, suburb, state") so you can later remember where you opened a bottle. The name is stored as text on that entry only; you can edit or delete it at any time. Raw coordinates are not stored or transmitted, and the app does not track your location in the background.
You can grant or revoke any of these in iOS Settings → The Cellar Schematic.
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. The app's iOS age rating is 18+ in most territories, in line with this.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes to this policy, the updated version will appear here with a new date. If you continue using the app after the new version is posted, you are agreeing to the updated terms. If you don't agree, you can stop using the app — your cellar data lives in your iCloud account and is yours to keep regardless.
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.