The Best Vivino Alternative in 2026

Updated July 2, 2026 · by the Crumble team

If you're hunting for a Vivino alternative, you're usually after one of two things: a wine log that's a private journal rather than a shop, or a single place to keep wine alongside everything else you taste. Crumble is built for exactly that — and it imports your Vivino list, so switching doesn't mean re-typing your cellar.

Crumble vs Vivino at a glance

Different jobs, honestly stated: Vivino is a discover-and-buy engine with a world-class label scanner; Crumble is the quiet journal you keep afterwards. The rest of this guide unpacks that split — and how to bring your Vivino history with you if the journal half is what you're missing.

What people want from an alternative

• A private journal, not a marketplace. Remember what you drank and what you thought — without ads or a shop pushing bottles.
• Their data, owned and exportable. A log they control, visible only to friends.
• One app for more than wine. Wine, beer, coffee and the restaurants you visit in one place.
• A clean way to bring their history over.

Why Crumble fits

Crumble is a private tasting journal: log each wine with winery, vintage and region, rate it on a 0–5 scale with tenth-of-a-star precision, add notes and an optional six-axis flavour score, and keep it friends-only. No marketplace, no paid ads, no data sale — hosted in the EU and GDPR-compliant. Filter your cellar by style, region or rating, and search it instantly. The whole wine journal is free.

Bring your Vivino list with you

Export your wines from Vivino as a CSV, then in Crumble open Profile → Import and upload it. The importer brings in each wine with its winery, name, vintage, region/country and your rating, plus your review where present. It dedupes so you never get doubles, shows a progress bar as it works, and re-importing later backfills anything new. The same importer also reads Untappd exports for beer and Google Maps / Swarm exports for the places you've been.

Switching from Vivino: what to know

Switching wine apps usually fails for one reason: nobody wants to re-type years of tasting history. The importer exists for exactly that, so the move is shorter than you'd expect:

1. Export your wine list from Vivino as a CSV. That file is your cellar's history — wines, vintages, regions and the ratings you gave them.
2. Upload it in Crumble under Profile → Import. A progress bar shows the import as it works through the list.
3. Check what arrived. Each wine comes in with its winery, name, vintage, region/country and your rating, plus your review text where present — so your first day in the new journal starts with your whole history, not an empty cellar.
4. Re-import whenever you like. The importer dedupes, so uploading a fresh export later backfills anything new without creating doubles.

And it doesn't have to be a clean break. Since many people keep Vivino for the scanner and the shop, a sensible pattern is to run both for a while: scan and buy in Vivino, log what you actually opened in Crumble. If the private journal sticks, re-export from Vivino now and then and let the importer backfill; if it doesn't, you've lost nothing.

The honest difference: journal vs marketplace

Vivino's strength is discovery and buying — a world-class label scanner, community scores from millions of drinkers, and a shop to order the bottle you just scanned. If that discover-and-buy loop is what you use Vivino for, keep it; nothing here replaces the marketplace. Crumble plays the opposite role: a quiet, private record of what you actually drank and thought, with no one selling you the next bottle. Many people use both — Vivino to find and buy, Crumble to remember.

A worked example: one wine, logged properly

What does a journal entry actually look like? Say you open a Rioja on a Friday night. In Crumble you log the winery, the wine's name, the vintage and the region, then give it a tenth-of-a-star rating — "4.0" rather than a vague thumbs-up. The tasting note is yours, in your words: what it smelled like, what you ate with it, whether you'd buy it again. If you want more structure, the optional six-axis flavour radar turns the impression into a score you can compare across bottles.

The payoff comes months later. Standing in a shop trying to remember which Rioja you liked, you filter your cellar by region or rating and the answer is there in seconds — searchable, instant, and visible only to the friends you've accepted. That's the difference between a community score ("millions of people rate this 3.9") and a journal ("I rated this 4.0, in March, with that lamb"). Both are useful; only one remembers your own palate.

It tracks more than wine

Wine sits beside free journals for beer, coffee, tea, matcha and whisky, and the restaurants you visit live on the same map. A Vivino alternative becomes one private app for everything you eat and drink. See how to track the wine you drink for the wine side in full.

What it costs

The wine journal, the flavour radar, the filters and the Vivino import are all free. Crumble Plus (€1.99/week, €4.99/month, €29.99/year) only adds AI label scanning and an unlimited wishlist. It runs as a Progressive Web App at crumble.me — iPhone, Android, or desktop, no app store needed.

Import your Vivino list free

Still comparing?

See the Untappd alternative for beer, Beli alternatives if restaurants are the bigger half of your food life, the best food diary apps for the whole picture, or the full guides hub.

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