Corkz: Wine Reviews and Cellar Reviews

The older version was working well - it was pretty quick and the barcode scanner worked incredibly fast. This new version changed all that. It now takes much longer to load, sometimes making you think it hung. And the barcode scanning is a joke. It can’t even detect that there’s a barcode in the frame, let alone read it. Wish I could go back to the older version. It might be time to switch to Cellar Tracker app (which is the database this app uses).

If you’re tired of your blazing fast iPhone you spent bank on to get 5g and a chip that could launch a rocket. If you long for the good old days of inserting a cd you got in the mail from compuserve promising 55 hours of free internet. If life just moved too dang fast, Corkz is for you! It don’t care that it’s 2021. It don’t care that you’ve curated years of wine bottles into it. Or you e gifted it to you family. The developer is over you, and well, they’re also on dialup so they can’t hear you complain because they are online and can’t pick up the phone. Please send a self addressed stamped envelope to “Bad Wine App, PO Box 999, Pueblo, Colorado”.

This is/ was one of my favorite apps but last year took a strange turn downward when it got a makeover. Text in the review field is invisible when typing, on both my iPhone and iPad. And the average price paid no longer shows up. That was a great help when shopping. Would give 3 stars but added a star for how great this used to be, and hoping Corkz gets back to greatness.

This is my go to app when purchasing wines. The reviews of other users are usually helpful. However, the very cumbersome cellar tracking feature is not very useful. If you are primarily looking for a way to track your wines across multiple locations then you should keep searching.

Sadly, Corkz is no longer supported and there are some issues with it. I have reached out at least twice over the past 12-18 months with specific concerns, questions, & issues. Not a single response. Not sure what happened because it used to be great! Don’t waste your time here. Just go straight to. CellarTracker (the database back-end to Corkz.) There were features here that I liked better than CellarTracker, but I’ll just learn how to use CT from here on out.

I like the way I can keep track of bottles I own, as well as what I have liked in the past. They information is useful when I'm in the store deciding what wine to buy. Well, that did not work at all! Inside the wine store my phone has no network connection, and this app says it can't work without network. So all I get is a black screen. Why is my wine cellar not stored on my device? I need it to work regardless of network. There are still many places on this Earth without network availability, and my apps need to work there.

Light grey boxes that are used to highlite a selected wine masks the text underneath with data such as ratings, drinking window, etc...

In general the new layout provides less contrasts between fields and text making it overall harder to read on my iPad. Not sure what you were thinking with this new layout but would prefer that you go back to the older layout or allow the user to choose.

Corkz has the potential for greatness, yet they fail at the most basic rudimentary functions. Get it together!

Great idea but my inventory is all screwed up. This has been a problem for a while.

In addition is doesn't retain order notes when you add a bottle. You have to copy the order notes, save the bottle and then edit and paste your order notes back in and save it again. It's a work around but really?

Anybody have a suggestion for a better app? This one stinks.

I have used Corkz successfully for several years. But in no longer works.

You can still scan the barcode. It brings up a list including the bottle of wine you are researching. But when you select the bottle from the list, Corkz crashes. This is now happening with every bottle of wine I scan. Please fix. Corkz is useless at this time.

I had Corkz running on my iPhone 5 and now 7+ for 3 years and was reasonably happy with it. Unfortunately, it stopped working a month ago. Nothing has worked to resurrect it. I contacted the company, but no response.

I give it only 1 star because i cant get the developer's attention. When it works, i would give it 4 to 5 stars.

While I like the scan function of adding to my cellar there needs to be the ability to add a wine name, year, etc. I am in several wine clubs and receive wines that are not released for retail. There is no way for me to add them to my cellar.

Used it for many years. Nothing special, but functional. But completely broken since iOS 12 update.
Update - now it works. Maybe a web or database glitch.

Not a bad program, but there is still a lot to be desired. No attempt was made to create a real database of popular wines. It is clear the designers are awaiting us to do their work. Not cool, but again, not a bad program.

See now loading then just get black screen since last update. Same issue on phone and ipad

Used this for a few years but I get only black screen when I try to open it now. Even the website won’t accept emails. Must be defunct. Will use a different app, I guess. Bummer

Nothing special but not much competition out there either.

Once a year I re-download Corkz and see if it has gotten any better. Nope. There are too many shortcomings to list.

Loved for years, but wouldn’t download it now. With the new design, all the input fields are illegible if your phone is in dark mode

Corkz is not working