Vinius vs Oeni

Vinius vs Oeni: a personal cellar app vs a wine operating system

Oeni is a polished cellar-management app for wine lovers. It lets you build a digital cellar by scanning labels, keep tasting notes, follow drinking windows, and see an estimated value for what you own, in a clean, mobile-first experience aimed at enthusiasts and collectors. For managing a personal collection from your phone, it does that job well, and the people who use it tend to like it.

Vinius is built for a different job. It is a B2B-led wine operating system for restaurants, hospitality groups, sommeliers, and clubs, and for investment-aware collectors who run a cellar with discipline. The honest framing is a consumer cellar app for individuals versus an operating system for running a wine program, and for running a serious cellar with operational rigour. Here is how to choose.

Side-by-side comparison

Dimension	Oeni	Vinius
Greatest strength	Simple, visual personal cellar on mobile	Operational system for running a wine program
Primary audience	Individual wine lovers and collectors	Wine programs (B2B) plus serious collectors
Inventory model	Bottle-level personal cellar	Lot-based inventory with movements and audit trail
Tasting & reference	Personal notes, scanning, drinking windows	Structured wine data with governed AI enrichment
Valuation	Estimated value of a personal collection	Valuation visibility across lots, purchase cost, and selling price
Pricing	Not an operational focus	Rules-based pricing engine, bottle and by-the-glass
By-the-glass	Not a focus	Pour-aware, tied to bottle economics
Wine cards / lists	Personal collection views	Guest-facing wine cards and lists from live inventory
Multi-venue / sites	Personal cellar	Active-site context across venues and storage
Reordering	Not a focus	Supplier reorder thresholds and purchase orders
Data ownership	Individual account	Organisation-owned program data with access control
Best for	Cataloguing and tracking a personal cellar	Professionals and investment-aware collectors running operations

Where Oeni is strong

Oeni does the personal-cellar job nicely. Scanning a label to add a bottle is quick, the cellar view is pleasant to browse, drinking-window prompts help you drink things at the right time, and a value estimate gives a sense of what the collection is worth, all on a phone, without ceremony. For an individual who wants a tidy, visual record of what they own and when to open it, that is a genuinely good experience.

If your priority is a simple, attractive way to track a personal collection and manage drinking windows, that strength is exactly what you want, and we would not steer a casual collector away from it.

Where Vinius is different

Vinius is built around operating a wine program, and around treating a serious cellar like a managed asset rather than a catalogue.

• Lots, movements, and audit trail. Vinius models inventory as lots and movements, keeping cost basis and provenance attached and recording every purchase, transfer, pour, and adjustment, not just a current count.
• A rules-based pricing engine. Markup ranges, rounding, and VAT logic apply consistently across bottle and by-the-glass, making pricing explainable and repeatable.
• By-the-glass control. Pour-aware tracking links glass pricing to real bottle economics, essential for hospitality margins.
• Guest-facing surfaces. Wine cards and lists are generated from live inventory as branded PDFs and digital displays that stay in sync with stock.
• Multi-venue and multi-site. Active-site context drives stock, pricing, and cards across venues, with org-wide defaults; the same foundation maps to a collector's multiple storage locations.
• Governed AI and owned data. Wine content and translations are enriched with human oversight, and pricing rules, supplier history, and notes stay with the organisation.

For an investment-aware collector, these foundations turn a cellar into something closer to a portfolio: structured movements, explainable pricing, and valuation visibility, alongside the tasting and drinking-window context you would still want.

Which should you choose?

Choose Oeni if you are an individual collector who wants a simple, visual personal cellar on your phone, with scanning, tasting notes, drinking windows, and a value estimate. If you are not running by-the-glass programs, publishing guest-facing lists, reordering from suppliers, or managing multiple venues, a focused consumer cellar app is likely the better fit.

Choose Vinius if you are running a wine program, a restaurant, bar, hospitality group, sommelier practice, or club, and need lot-level inventory, an operational pricing engine, by-the-glass control, live wine cards, supplier reordering, and multi-venue context. Choose it too if you are a serious collector who wants to treat the cellar like a managed portfolio: structured movements, explainable pricing, and valuation visibility with data that stays organised over time.

The two suit different needs. Oeni is a pleasant home for a personal collection; Vinius is the system of record for a wine program and a disciplined cellar.

Vinius is pre-launch. If you have outgrown a personal cellar app and need an operating system for a wine program, request access.