No Lock-In: Export Your Entire Wine Cellar from Cellarion in One Click

The short version: Cellarion can now export your entire wine cellar — every bottle, rack placement, 3D room layout, review and drink-window — in a single click, either as an open JSON file or as a ZIP that also bundles the photos you uploaded. The export is import-ready into any Cellarion instance, easy to take to another wine app, and because Cellarion is open-source you can even stand up your own copy and load everything back. Your data is yours. We would rather earn your stay than trap it.

Why an export that gives everything away is the point

Most apps treat your data as the thing that keeps you locked in: the longer you stay, the more painful leaving becomes, so you stay. We think that is backwards. A wine collection is the work of years — the bottles you have hunted down, the notes you have written, the racks you have laid out. That history belongs to you, not to us.

So we built the opposite: a one-click way to walk out with all of it, any time, no support ticket required. We want you on Cellarion because you like using it — the 3D cellar view, the drink-window alerts, the clean inventory — not because the exit is bricked up. Lock-in is a tax on trust, and we would rather not charge it.

"Take your cellars with you", step by step

You will find it in two places: each cellar's ⋮ menu → Export (pre-scoped to that cellar), and in Settings under Take your cellars with you. Pick a single cellar or all of them, and before you download anything a live summary shows exactly what is inside — cellars, bottles, racks, 3D room layouts, reviews, drink-window data and how many of your images it will include.

Then you choose how much to take:

• Data (JSON) — a single structured file with your bottles, racks, 3D layout, reviews and maturity data. Lightweight, and there is no limit on how often you download it.

• Data + images (ZIP) — the same data file plus the image files you uploaded and a short README explaining the format. Because the image archive can be large, this one is limited to once per week.

One deliberate rule: the ZIP only ever contains photos you uploaded. Images other people contributed to a shared wine — a label someone else photographed — are never bundled into your archive. You leave with your own work, nothing less and nothing that isn't yours.

Everything that comes with you

This is a full portrait of your cellar, not a stripped-down bottle list. An export includes:

• Every bottle — vintage, producer, region, price paid, your rating and your tasting notes.

• Rack placements — which bottle sits in which slot of which rack.

• Your 3D room layout — the to-scale arrangement you built in the 3D cellar view.

• Reviews and tasting notes you have written.

• Drink-window (maturity) data — the sommelier-reviewed windows that power your "drink now / hold" guidance.

• Your photos (in the ZIP), plus a README so the format is self-explanatory.

Leaving for another wine app? Go right ahead

Because the export is a plain, documented JSON file rather than a proprietary blob, your collection isn't trapped. The bottle fields use the same shape that spreadsheets and other cellar apps understand, so reshaping it for another tool is a small, mechanical step — and since Cellarion is open-source, the format is fully readable, with nothing hidden.

The door swings both ways, too. Coming from CellarTracker, Vivino, Oeno or a plain spreadsheet? Cellarion's importer reads CSV exports from those apps, so moving in is just as easy as moving out. We would rather win on the experience than on the cost of switching.

Prefer to run it yourself? Self-host Cellarion

Here is the part most hosted apps can't offer: if you would rather own the whole stack, you can. Cellarion is open-source under the AGPL-3.0 licence, so you are free to run your own private instance on your own server. Export your cellars as a ZIP, spin up Cellarion with Docker, and import the archive — bottles, racks, 3D layout, reviews, drink-windows and images all rebuild on your own hardware.

For most people the hosted version at cellarion.app is simply the easiest path — nothing to maintain, EU-hosted, kept up to date for you. But knowing you could take the entire thing in-house is the strongest proof we can give that you are never locked in. Cloud when you want it, self-hosted when you don't, your data moving freely between the two.

Privacy that backs the promise up

Portability is part of a wider stance, not a one-off feature. Cellarion is GDPR-first and EU-hosted, with no ads and no selling of your data. Beyond the cellar export, Settings gives you a full account data export (everything we hold about you, as JSON) and one-click account deletion with a seven-day cooling-off window. You can read the details in our privacy policy.

Frequently asked questions

How do I export my wine collection from Cellarion?

Open a cellar's ⋮ menu and choose Export, or go to Settings and choose "Take your cellars with you". Pick a single cellar or all of them, review the live summary of what's included, then download it as a JSON file (data only) or a ZIP (data plus the photos you uploaded). The JSON download has no limit; the image ZIP is limited to once per week.

What's included in a Cellarion export?

Everything that makes up your cellar: every bottle with its vintage, producer, region, price, rating and tasting notes; rack placements; your 3D room layout; your reviews; the drink-window (maturity) data for each wine; and, in the ZIP, the image files you uploaded plus a README describing the format.

Can I move my wine collection to another app?

Yes. The export is a plain, documented JSON file — not a locked proprietary format — so your data can be reshaped for other cellar apps or spreadsheets with a small, mechanical step. Cellarion is open-source, so the format is fully readable. Cellarion's importer also reads CSV exports from apps like CellarTracker and Vivino, so moving in or out is straightforward.

Can I self-host Cellarion and import my data?

Yes. Cellarion is open-source under AGPL-3.0, so you can run your own instance on your own server with Docker. Export your cellars as a ZIP from the hosted app, then import that archive into your self-hosted instance — bottles, racks, 3D layout, reviews, drink-windows and images all rebuild. You can move between the hosted version and a self-hosted one whenever you like.

Is there a limit on how often I can export?

The data-only JSON export has no limit — download it as often as you want. The full ZIP that bundles your image files is limited to once per week, because image archives can be large. The ZIP only ever contains photos you uploaded yourself, never images other people contributed to shared wines.

What happens to my data if I delete my account?

You stay in control. Before leaving you can export everything, and from Settings you can delete your account with a seven-day cooling-off window. Cellarion is GDPR-first and EU-hosted, with no ads and no data selling — see the privacy policy for the full detail.