In design
Point your phone at a bottle.
See what it sells for.
The website answers the question if you can type the name. Most of the time you are standing in front of a bottle in a shop, a bar, or a relative’s cabinet, and you cannot. This is that, for a phone.
Not built yet. The screens below are drawings, not screenshots, and every figure in them is real data from this site.
the label
no shutter · no account
1 · Point
recognised
MOSSBURN
DISTILLED AT THE
MANNOCHMORE
DISTILLERY · SPEYSIDE
AGED 10 YEARS
2008 · BOTTLED 10/12/2018
CASK BILL: HHD
BATCH 16.0708.16
56.1% vol · 70cl
on device · offline
2 · Read
3 candidates
Mannochmore 2008-2018 10 Year Old
Mossburn Vintage Casks
Mannochmore 12 Year Old
Mannochmore 1990 Rare Malts
unsure? it asks,
it does not guess
3 · Match
typical sale
£150
median hammer
range
£110 – £155
with 15% premium
£172
shops asking
£180
see live lots →
4 · Value
Why it can be free
The reading happens on the phone
Text recognition runs in the operating system — Apple’s Vision framework, Google’s ML Kit. No server sees the photograph, and no request costs anything. Where a label is awkward, the on-device language model reconciles the text against a shortlist rather than inventing a name.
The data ships inside the app
11,562 auction results and 21,972 priced bottlings are a few megabytes of JSON. They travel with the app, so it works in a cellar, a warehouse, or anywhere with no signal.
There is nothing to run
No accounts, no analytics, no backend, no subscription. A non-commercial project can carry that indefinitely, which is the only reason it can stay free and stay honest.
If you run an auction house
Every valuation names the house whose results produced it and links back to it. Someone who photographs a bottle and learns it is worth £150 is a person who might consign it, or bid on the next one — and the last screen of that flow points at your salerooms.
What we are asking for
Written permission to publish realised prices from your public results archive, with attribution and a link on every figure. Nothing behind a login, nothing that identifies a bidder or a consignor.
What we have not done
Taken anything without asking. Where terms required consent, we stopped and fetched nothing — currently that means the site carries results from Whisky-Online Auctions alone, and says so on every page.