Things people ask.

Download Zapfä from the App Store, create an account with your email (or sign in with Apple), and you’re in. The first time you launch the app you’ll be guided through naming your cellar location (e.g. “Zurich apartment” or “the cottage”) and adding a spot or two inside it (a fridge, a rack, a closet shelf — whatever you actually use).

Then add your first bottle. Snap the front label, fill in producer and wine name (autocomplete kicks in fast once a few are entered), set vintage and color, choose where it’s stored, and you’re done. The whole flow is five quick steps; most bottles take under a minute to log.

You don’t need to add your entire cellar at once. Most people start with the bottles they’re about to drink or the ones they’re proudest of, and let the rest accumulate naturally over the next few weeks.

Two levels: Locations (a house, an apartment, the cottage) and Spots inside each location (a fridge, a temperature-controlled cabinet, a rack, a single shelf). Each bottle lives in exactly one spot. If you want extra precision — “row 3, position B” — there’s a freeform position field on the bottle itself.

The cellar view shows your bottles as cards with the label photo as the primary identifier. You can filter by color, region, country, grape, vintage, location, or spot, and you can sort by drink-window, vintage, or recently added. Search works across producer, wine name, region, and grape.

Label photos are first-class — they’re how the app helps you recognize a bottle when you’re standing in front of the fridge. The photo crops automatically, and you can re-shoot any bottle’s label later if the original came out blurry.

The short answer: it’s yours, it stays in the EU, and we never sell it.

We collect your email address (so you can sign in) and the cellar data you choose to add (bottles, ratings, photos, tasting notes). That’s the entire list. We don’t track location, contacts, browsing, or anything else the app doesn’t actually need.

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You can export everything (CSV or JSON) any time from in-app Settings, and you can delete your account in three taps. The full breakdown lives in the Privacy Policy.