“Drync Wine” Free App for the Iphone

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I’ve been looking for the perfect wine cellar app.  I want it to be able to find most of my wines in its easily accessible data base, store my notes on each wine, take pictures of the label right from the app, make suggestions based on my notes, and have a nice looking interface.  I also want it to have social abilities, so that I can share my ratings and notes with other people.  Oh and I want it to be free (or very cheap).

My research is ongoing, but I thought I’d share as I go along.  I downloaded “Drync Wine” free version and put the info for a couple of bottles of wine into it to give it a test drive.  First of all the interface is beautiful.  It looks like polished hardwood.  Really pretty.  The icons are well designed; simple and pleasant.  I had a couple of issues with crashing while I tried to take a picture of my label from inside the app, but other than that it was pretty stable.  I was able to work around by taking pictures of my labels using the camera function and then importing them into Drync. The Itunes page on the pro version says that the picture crash issue has been fixed in that version. I found the search database to be fairly thorough, although a lot of the wines I was trying to add didn’t have the particular vintage that I was looking for.  It’s not hard to change the year, but I was surprised that I had that issue so often.  When you select the wine from the database you can choose whether, “I Drank”, “I Own” or “I Want”.

I wanted to check the connectivity and social aspect of the app, so I asked my father to download a copy too.  We had quite a bit of fun, comparing wines long distance and all in all this app is really well done.  My wishlist, to make this perfect would be the ability to share within the app, rather than just through Twitter or Email.  I’d also like to be able to log in online so that I could enter wines there – especially when I’m importing more than a couple of them.

The free version has ads and a ten bottle cellar limit.  Their blog alludes to a website to manage your cellar in the future.  That might be enough to make me purchase the full version.

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