Hi!
I’ve been building a wine app over the past year (yeah I know…) and the first public beta is now live. It’s called vynr.
Vynr avoids external (!) ratings, feeds, or shopping baskets, I like to think it's a little different — built around place and memory.
Scan a label and the wine drops into an atlas of wine regions. From there you can explore appellations, track your cellar, and log private tasting notes in a simple journal-style format. No feeds, no noise, no ads.
Right now the beta includes:
• label scanning + OCR
• optional AI augmentation (disabled by default)
• interactive wine region atlas
• personal cellar tracking
• wine pages with regional context
• tasting notes (from quick notes to longer entries)
• short explainers on regions and grapes
• a few hidden gestures — if in doubt, long-press 🙂
It’s early, so expect some bugs.
What would help most right now is real label scans from people opening bottles — different countries, producers, vintages, older labels, anything interesting.
If something misreads, you can long-press the scan photo to send diagnostics. That data helps improve the parser quite a lot.
If you enjoy wine, collecting bottles, learning about wine, or just want a quiet place to keep wine notes and photos, I’d really appreciate feedback or ideas.
TestFlight beta link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/uvW1mr3fj
The essentials are free and will stay that way – no ads, no feeds, just a private place for your wine notes.
Cheers
richard
by smallgravitas
4 Comments
Does the data stay on my phone?
iOS only accounts for ≈30% market share. Android version when?
Is this region locked for testing. When I click the test flight link it tells me there is no beta to test.
I think this post will be removed due to self promotion. Good luck on that. I also made a wine app with huge regional data and grape information, sent it here, it is free, no ads, offline usage but still removed for promotion.