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Oeni and Invitory are two serious apps for managing your wine cellar, but they’re built for very different users. This comparison covers features, pricing, available platforms, supported languages, and the ideal profile for each app, so you can make the right choice before you subscribe.
Oeni vs. Invitory at a glance
Introducing the two apps
Oeni: the multilingual AI sommelier born in France
Oeni is a French app, created by wine lovers for wine lovers around the world. Available on iOS, Android, and Web, it’s a full-featured cellar management tool in 15 languages: French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Its strengths:
- 400,000+ wines in the database for precise inventory management
- Label scanning to add a bottle in seconds
- Sommelier AI with personalized recommendations (your co-pilot for managing your cellar)
- Food and wine pairings (more than 5,400 combinations)
- Financial value tracking for your cellar
- Maturity alerts so you can open each bottle at exactly the right time
- Personal tasting notes and a community "Reviews" tab for sharing your impressions with other wine lovers
- 3D cellar to visualize and organize your bottle stock
- Freemium model with a 30-day free premium trial
- Rating: 4.7/5 on the App Store (more than 7,000 reviews)
Rooted in French wine culture, Oeni natively integrates French appellations, terroirs, and food pairings, while still being designed for international use from day one.
Invitory: the premium app for English-speaking collectors
Invitory (officially "InVintory") is a Canadian app, available on iOS and Web only (no Android). It’s aimed at serious collectors, mainly English-speaking ones.
Its strengths:
- 2M+ wines in the database
- VinLocate™: advanced 3D visualization of your cellar with precise bottle location
- "Vincent" sommelier AI for personalized recommendations
- Label scanning, maturity alerts, value tracking
- Connected hardware (optional): CellarStickers™ (NFC labels you can stick on shelves or bottles to identify them in a tap) and Govee integration for real-time cellar temperature and humidity tracking
- Import from CellarTracker
- Critical scores shown directly on wine pages and a community space where you can write tasting notes, select aroma tags, and share your impressions with the InVintory community
- Aspire tier (free, unlimited) and Opus tier (quote-based, custom 3D cellar)
- Rating: 4.5/5 on the App Store (28 reviews)
Important limitation: the interface is only in English, and the app isn’t available on Android.
Feature-by-feature comparison
Price comparison
Worth noting: Invitory is about 40% more expensive than Oeni, billed in Canadian/U.S. dollars, and doesn’t offer an Android app. On top of being cheaper than Invitory, Oeni also offers a 30-day free trial of its premium features.
Who should choose Oeni?
Oeni is the best choice if:
- You speak French (or one of the 15 supported languages)
- You use an Android phone
- You want detailed food and wine pairings and financial analysis of your cellar
- You’re looking for an app with a large, active community (7,000+ App Store reviews)
- You want the best value for money (less than €5/month)
- You like an app rooted in French wine culture
- You want to try before you commit (30-day free trial)
Who should choose Invitory?
Invitory is a better fit if:
- You’re English-speaking and comfortable using English only
- You use iOS or a web browser exclusively
- You have a very large cellar and want advanced VinLocate™ 3D with custom modeling (Opus tier)
- You’re looking for a massive database (2M+ wines) for rare or niche references
- You want to connect your physical cellar to the app (NFC on shelves, temperature/humidity tracking via Govee sensors)
- You already import your cellar from CellarTracker
FAQ
Are Oeni and Invitory free?
Yes, both apps offer free access. Oeni is freemium, with basic features available without a subscription and a 30-day premium trial. Invitory offers the free, unlimited Aspire tier, with advanced features reserved for paying subscribers. Both work as SaaS platforms, with no heavy installation, making them accessible to small businesses as well as large collectors.
Is Invitory available in French?
No. Invitory is available only in English. If you prefer to use an app in French (or another language), Oeni is the only one of the two to offer a multilingual interface, including French. That’s a real plus for users who want to manage their inventory, track bottle stock, and check their dashboards in their native language.
Can you automate cellar management with these apps?
Yes, to a certain extent. Oeni lets you automate several repetitive tasks: maturity alerts, restocking suggestions based on your habits, and personalized recommendations through its sommelier AI. These automation features help you manage your inventory more efficiently, without having to check everything manually. Invitory offers similar automations through its Vincent assistant, with a particular focus on the physical location of bottles within cellar slots.
Which app offers the best bottle stock tracking?
Both apps offer solid stock tracking, but with different approaches. Oeni focuses on accessible key indicators such as stock value, maturity alerts, and dashboards for precise inventory management and restocking your cellar at the right time. Through its VinLocate™ system, Invitory offers more advanced warehouse-style management with the physical location of each bottle in its slots, close to a warehouse management system (WMS). For most wine lovers, Oeni is more than enough; for very large cellars that need bottle-by-bottle stock control, Invitory is the better fit.
Can you import your cellar from Invitory to Oeni?
There’s no direct import between the two apps. However, Oeni lets you import your cellar via an Excel file: you can export your data from Invitory, adapt it to Oeni’s format, then import it. This migration lets you keep all your inventory data (locations, stock levels, entry and exit history) without starting from scratch. Oeni support can help you with the process.
Which app is better rated?
Oeni is better rated and far more reviewed: 4.7/5 on the App Store with more than 7,000 reviews. Invitory shows 4.5/5 but with only 28 reviews, which makes the rating less representative.
Is Oeni available on Android?
Yes. Oeni is available on iOS, Android, and Web (web.oeni.app). So this app doesn’t depend on a single ecosystem. Invitory, on the other hand, is only available on iOS and through a web browser, with no Android app.
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