For whisky collectors
Catalogue every bottle. Track every cask. Keep it off the cloud.
ClearBench is a native desktop app for serious whisky collectors. Distillery, expression, cask, ABV, fill level, valuation: every field a serious cataloguer would expect, on your computer alone. Not a marketplace, not a forum, not a portfolio tracker.
[ Detail view of a single malt + display label ]
Three things, done well.
Cask type, ABV, fill level, age statement: the things that distinguish one bottle from another. ClearBench treats each as a first-class field.
A real catalogue
Distillery, expression, bottler, category (single malt, blended, bourbon, rye, Japanese), region, age statement, vintage, bottling year, cask type, cask number, ABV, volume, cask strength, natural colour, non-chill-filtered, limited release, fill level, sealed flag.
Display + cellar labels
Six bundled templates at 50×40mm, which works for cellar shelves, display cases, and tasting cards. Distillery, expression, age, vintage. Print exact-size PDFs on your own printer. Design your house style once.
Off the cloud
A serious whisky collection has values that warrant private cataloguing. Distillery names, whisky valuations, and acquisition prices stay on your computer. No subscription database, no cloud upload.
Built for whisky, not generic cataloguing.
The fields are the ones a serious whisky record carries, drawn from the way collectors and auctioneers actually describe a bottle.
A serious cellar isn't for searching.
High-value bottles, acquisition prices, valuations: all the kind of data you'd rather not list on a third party's server. ClearBench keeps it on your machine.
Stored on your device only
Every bottle, photo, valuation, and acquisition price sits on your computer. No upload, no copy on any server, no third-party access, including ours.
No analytics on your records
We don't track which distilleries you collect, which expressions you record, or which auctioneers you buy from.
Insurance schedules stay yours
The PDF valuation schedule lives on your hard drive until you choose to email it to your insurer.
Backups stay yours
Full-catalogue backups are plain .clearbench JSON files you save where you want: your hard drive, an encrypted external, your own cloud. For day-to-day work, export any collection straight out to CSV, Excel, plain text, or a vCard for contacts, then round-trip back in after a bulk edit. The format is documented and stable.
No lock-in
If we vanish tomorrow, your collection is still yours, in a format you can re-import into other tools. The .clearbench backup file is plain JSON that opens in any text editor; the CSV, Excel, and plain-text exports open in tools you already have.
One price when it launches. Everything in.
No tiers, no upsells, no monthly billing. Every paying user gets every feature.
all in, no upsells
Pay in your local currency at checkout — we'll convert automatically.
- Six professional label templates, fully editable on a free-positioning canvas
- Build a catalogue around any collection: pick a starter or design your own field set
- Drag-and-drop photo gallery, plus add photos from your phone over local WiFi
- Type-aware fields with smart defaults per collection type
- Sharp, exact-size PDFs for printing
- Real macOS and Windows app with fast launch, native menus and keyboard shortcuts, dark mode that follows your OS, and no browser tab eating your RAM
- Local backups you control: export and restore the whole catalogue as one file
- All updates free for the licence year
30-day money-back guarantee · macOS and Windows · Your data stays on your device
First launch walks you through setting up your first collection in three short steps.
Common questions from whisky collectors.
Does it record cask details properly?
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Yes. Cask type and cask number are separate fields. Cask strength, natural colour, and non-chill-filtered each have their own checkboxes, because they each affect value. Limited release is its own flag for surfacing rarities in search filters.
How does it handle vintage vs bottling year?
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Two separate fields. Vintage / distilled is the year the spirit was put into the cask. Bottling year is the year it came out. Age statement is its own field too, because a 25-year-old expression bottled in 2020 from 1995 stock is structurally different to a 25-year-old expression bottled in 2010 from 1985 stock, and serious collectors care about the difference.
Fill level and seal status?
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Fill level is a dropdown: into-neck, high-shoulder, shoulder, low-shoulder, top-of-label, mid-label. Sealed is its own checkbox. Both fields are how the trade describes a bottle's state for valuation purposes; ClearBench treats them as the structured data they should be.
Insurance schedule for the collection?
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Acquisition cost, valuation, and valuation date are dedicated fields. ClearBench can output a PDF schedule of the whole collection, or a filtered subset by region, distillery, or category, that you hand to your insurer. The schedule lives on your hard drive until you choose to share it.
Selling, not just collecting?
ClearBench has a full dealer side: a stock list kept separate from your collection, show mode that tracks every sale from setup to pack-up, sales and ROI reports, and price-tag sheets from the same label engine. Same app, same privacy, no extra purchase.
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