Feature Requests, Bugs, and More

I’m lost on this new version. Instead of gradual changes you seemed to have gone for the “let’s confuse the crap” out of people approach.

I find the new app difficult to use. It’s not as clear. Been reverting back to the old app just because I prefer it and use my laptop now more when recording new or drinking wines. I do a lot of movement; moving wines out to different locations. For some reason the new app just does not seem to work as well. Maybe it’s just me. But my 2 cents

Currently when I consume a bottle I can add a note if I would purchases it again or not. But there is not easy way to pull this back up. There is no tag that I can add/select that says purchase again. If this feature was available a user could pull up wines they enjoyed to repurchase. Now I have to keep track of this separately outside the app.

previous version is simple on format and use. All I want to do is see my wine in a concise list and easily read reviews. I am still using the previous version and shall continue to do so. The new version adds nothing.

The old version of CellarTracker was built on a better foundation, created by a passionate wine enthusiast and a skilled IT professional. What frustrates me the most is that printing labels from an Apple device doesn’t work—a feature that functions seamlessly in other similar applications. It’s a shame to see a once-great program deteriorate over time.

The old version was fare from perfect… but it worked. The current version is complete chaos. I use Cellar Tracker to organize myself. With over 10’000 bottles to manage, ORDER is of the upmost importance. The new version is pure chaos. For example I was looking for an old Mouton, of which I have several bottles. The app first brings only empty bottles. Whereby I am more interested in drinking full bottles. The bottles found were all mixed up between location, size. Most normally people would look in one cellar for different sizes. In the mean time I have re-installed the old app and work with a half bad old app that at least allows me to manage my wines. PLEASE FIX THIS.

I can’t find where you put my comment from this morning, but you asked why I don’t like the new app. It’s because you seem to be trying to turn the app into a pictorial and social networking site, not something to help me manage my cellar quickly and efficiently. What I’m looking for in the Cellar Tracker app is what the old app had, which is access to exactly the same information, reviews, searches, reports etc that the website gives me. Unfortunately, I don’t see anything you can do to the new app that would make it interesting to me except throw it away. If you persist in developing the new app, I hope keep the old app available for those of us who don’t want it. If the old app, I will certainly switch away from Cellar Tracker to one of the alternatives. I wish I didn’t be critical, but the new app is terrible.

From User We're trying to get wines from 0-$40, sorted by rating descending. Ideally, this would help us discover highly rated wines in this price bracket. However, in reality, there's no way to actually accomplish that, as the ratings are of course full of noise and need to be tuned down for relevance. The top wine under $40 in the world is, apparently, a Sangria from the Finger Lakes. In order to tune out the noise, we need to add the number of reviews/notes as a filter to this search. But that is not possible.

CellarTracker has an absolute wealth of data on Wine, and it has the potential to be one of the best platforms for discovering truly valuable insights about wine in the entire world. However, the search and query capability is holding us back from using it for those kinds of unique insights entirely, and this is truly unfortunate. Example, with the following search: https://www.cellartracker.com/list.asp?ShowFilter=1&Table=List&ValueTop=40&ValueBottom=0%2E01&iUserOverride=0&O=CScoreSort+DESC&VB=2018&VT=2024 We're trying to get wines from 0-$40, sorted by rating descending. Ideally, this would help us discover highly rated wines in this price bracket. However, in reality, there's no way to actually accomplish that, as the ratings are of course full of noise and need to be tuned down for relevance. The top wine under $40 in the world is, apparently, a Sangria from the Finger Lakes. In order to tune out the noise, we need to add the number of reviews/notes as a filter to this search. But that is not possible. If we try to get at that in another way, and instead use Advanced Search to get Notes summaries, then we can't filter by price, and end up with just the 1er cru Bordeaux and Burgundies. Not surprising, and also not useful. If we try yet another approach, I looked everywhere for a way to export, so I could do my own data discovery; this is also not possible. My next step will be to scrape the API. I imagine I will succeed, but this is not a step that should be necessary. My recommendation: list the truly useful queries based on the outcome, the kinds of discoveries and insights that should be possible with this data set. Then work out the filters or groupings or sorts necessary to achieve them, and ensure those are supported.

This is not a functionality idea, but something that is very important to me as a user.

From Chris: Enhanced Drinking Window Info: Would be amazing to show graphically for each wine the bell curve of the optimal drinking winding assuming proper storage. It could update dynamically based on both critic and user ratings.

I have 90 bottle wine cellar which has 9 shelves. It would nice if I could tell app how many bottles a shelf can store and then easily find shelf(s) that have free spot when adding new bottle

I searched already posted suggestions and didn’t see this one. I primarily use the web version of CT due to its many options on the first screen on my phone and high functionality. My suggestion is to replicate the multi-level sorting functionality as I use it ad hoc but also to generate the 30 Saved Views I use. As an example, some of my Saved Views are RtDrink, then Color, then Location or MyBottles, Vintage (descending), then Producer (Qty Desc’g) or Purchases by Year Purchased (Desc), Quarter (desc), then Month (desc).

Initial fears are this is turning into a mini Vivino. Cellartracker is for the real wine drinking, inventory management utmost, viewing friends cellars and other reviews 2nd. The new app feels too much, too busy, too many pictures, too many suggestions, colour and bling over core inventory management functionality. Please don't lose sight over what made this so good. Vivino should not be viewed as direct competition.