Sommo: AI Wine Scanner

While I love Sommo’s powerful features and attractive design, I first want to call your attention to the privacy features of this app: this app doesn’t sell your data! It is so refreshing not to be the product, unlike most other apps. That alone is well-worth the token price for the premium product. Sommo works great for discovery through individual bottle scans as well as the ability to quickly find gems from an entire shelf in the store or at home. A key Sommo distinction is the dedicated wine AI—this is not a “wine-skinned” chat GPT. This means that with a scan, it gathers more than the usual amount of info about the producer, vintage, and grape, which please my data-focused heart. This app shines when it comes to personal palate discovery as well as learning about wine. The AI learns you as you go (and as you change over time) so it can best recommend how a given wine would hit for you. It suits my needs for my cellaring (I have under 100 bottles). While this is not a social app in the typical way, it allows us to share racks and “mix palates” to find wines to suit us both. I have yet to explore more of the group tasting features, but am looking forward to the experience. Wonderful app!

I downloaded a handful of wine apps and have imported some of my favorite wines into them to cross-compare the apps and test them out. Ultimately, I’m seeking a wine “profile” that helps me better understand what kinds of wine I’m drawn to so I can be confidently more selective in the future. Sommo is fantastic and my favorite of all the apps I’ve tried! It has correctly identified niche wines that both Vivino and Delectable failed to find. The scanning feature works flawlessly and the graph-style testing notes is the perfect visual companion for each wine to help me understand what makes me like each one. I highly recommend!

I tested a lot of wine apps and finally found the right one. I always stuck with the same few bottles and couldnt really find anything I liked, or actually, didnt know how to find it. Sommo actually tells me if I would like something or not. I just scan whatever I see in the wine section and voila. I had always wanted to explore and learn more about wine without making it a hassle or deal with snob workshops. Thanks to the quick quizzes in here I actually learned a lot. I feel like I can talk about tasting notes without feeling like a fraud. It’s become one of my favorite apps and everytime I go to buy wine I cant wait to scan everything I see with Sommo and find out what I can. Kudos to the developer.