Love this app!
This is such a great app. It keeps track of not only my favorite cocktail recipes but also keeps track of what cocktails I can make with what I currently have available in my bar!
The home-bar app for iPhone
Your shelf is holding out on you.
bartender.live keeps the book on more than a thousand cocktails and knows exactly which ones you can pour with the bottles you already own. Flip a switch for everything in the house; the bar quietly does the rest.
No guessing. No grocery run. Tonight’s drink is probably already here.
For iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Pouring since 2017.
- 4.8 on the App Store
- 1,000+ recipes
- Pouring since 2017
No chord of music has yet been found
— an old toast
To even equal that sweet sound
Which to my mind all else surpasses
The clink of ice in crystal glasses
Stock your bar
Walk your shelf once and flip a switch for every bottle in the house, from aged rum to allspice dram. iCloud carries the list to every device you own.
Ask what pours
Tap I Can Make and the whole library narrows itself to the drinks your bar can pour tonight, complete, no substitutions.
Pour something great
Every recipe keeps it honest — real measures, the right glass, and the story of how the drink came to be.
The signature pour
One bottle away from a better drink.
The Almost list keeps a polite tab of everything your bar could make with exactly one more bottle — and names the bottle. Short a vermouth for an Americano? It says so, plainly, and points you at the shelf.
missing: Sweet Vermouth
Almost pours from the Top Shelf — the app’s one-time unlock. One price, no subscription, yours forever.
The book behind the bar
A thousand-some recipes, kept honestly.
Every drink gets the full write-up: measures that mean it, the glass it belongs in, and where the recipe came from. Green checks mark what your bar already has; whatever is wanting gets named in orange.
The library grows by a drink or so most days, each one photographed and filed under its proper glass. When you find a keeper, the share sheet sends it to whoever is thirsty.
Tap any ingredient for its own page — what it is, what it tastes like, and every drink in the book that calls for it.
My Bar
The bar that remembers itself.
My Bar is the one list you keep: every bottle, bitter, and backbar oddity in the house, tracked with a flick. It rides your iCloud, so a new phone walks in already knowing your shelf.
Put the Home Screen widgets up and the day’s drink waits on your wallpaper. And if you ask it to, the app will tap your shoulder at five with a suggestion poured entirely from what you own.
Widgets, the daily suggestion, only-makeable suggestions, and custom favorite icons all pour from the Top Shelf.
House policy
Mixed to a standing order.
Some things behind this bar are non-negotiable. They have been the recipe since 2017, and they are not up for review.
The long version lives on the privacy page, which is short.
The House Pour
rocks glass
Ingredients
- No ads, ever
- No account to create
- Nothing that identifies you — the bar counts pours, never people
- Your bar stays yours, on your phone and your iCloud
- Top Shelf is one price, once — never a subscription
Recipe
Stir with whatever is on your shelf. Garnish to taste. Repeat as needed.
— the house
From the guest book
Regulars, in their own words.
4.8 out of 5 · 388 ratings on the App Store
Awesome app
It’s great I use it at least once a week for recipes
How Great
I have been negligent in not giving this app its well deserved five stars. It makes life so much more enjoyable, just being able to mix a drink correctly, and to try out new ones. Thanks. I’m now in my so called ‘golden years’ and want to give you the SHOUT OUT that you deserve. …
Just the way it should be
Selective, tasteful, well-designed app with an interactive feature that I will be trying out tonight
I really like what I see!
After reviewing a number of app reviews, I bought this one a couple of days ago and made my first drink. I really like what I see so far. I would absolutely give this app a 5 star rating if it would give me the ability to make notes on a recipe and to add my own recipes/pictures. …
Actually a decent app
So, I've finally been able to checkout the features of this app, and it's actually really good. I love the fact that you can add drinks, you the individual made. That being said. …
Best bartending app out there
I’ve checked out a bunch of cocktail recipes apps, and this really beats them all. It’s well designed, has a huge database, and is truly functional. Search is great, and the ability to find drinks based on available ingredients isn’t in any other bartender app. Highly recommended.
Useful, inexpensive, but needs thumbnails
So far the app is inexpensive and useful. However, it’s be more useful if there were thumbnails for each cocktail in the “In my Bar” list. Perhaps some categorization too. My list is a bit long and it’s just a lot of words to me. UPDATE: the app now has thumbnails in the list! Yay!
Great app with 1 suggestion
I love that I can select ingredients and spirits I have in my home and instantly have a list of drinks I can mix right away! Only suggestion is I’d like the ability to also filter the “In My Bar” section by spirit or ingredient if I’m filling a particular spirit or ingredient.
Mr Dennis Flamer
Wonderful App. Heaps of Cocktails. Love it.
Love it
I really enjoy this simple app. My favorite feature is the “in my bar” . I check off the ingredients on hand and it give me a list of what I can make. Awesome!
Continued awesome
I’ve used this app for a few months now and it is excellent! Are there things I wish for? Sure, but this is still the best app going. Update on review May 1, 2019 the new drinks flag no longer shows up in the drinks library. App v. …
Near perfect guest drink menu
This is a very nice app to be able to hand to guests and ask “What would you like from my drink menu”. Good use of images make it visually appealing and great to be able to enter what you have in stock to show what drinks you can make. …
Great app!
It is extremely helpful when mixing drinks. I wish I could search recipes based on the liquor.
Informative
Great app for preparing drinks. Love this app.
Fantastic
Easy to navigate. Drinks are well described and the preparation of them is really easy to understand! Excellent app! Would love a categorisation for summer / winter / spring and Autumn/Fall!
Perfect for aspiring bartenders!
Love the way this app is layed out and how easy it is to find drink recipes quickly. …
Great app
Amateur at-home bartender here always looking to use my random but extensive bottle collection in new ways. This app is what I’ve been looking for for so long!
Awesome.
Fun, easy app that makes you feel like you’ve got a bartender in your pocket.
Perfect
This app could not be any better suited for its purpose. Super easy to use, appealing to the eye, and offers incredible recipes!! Love, love, love!!!
Happy hour
I love that it sends me a drink idea at 5pm. (Based on what I have available in my home bar.) that is a fun feature, and makes me excited to get home to mix it up!
No more guessing! :)
I love this! It takes all the guess work out of being a good host; just tell the app what you have on hand (once) and it tells you what you can make. Super easy to use. They should make a cooking version :-)
Love it!
This app is SO EASY to use, has a clean format and is helpful for finding fun drinks to make with what I have at home already.
Every quote above is a real five-star App Store review, pulled straight from Apple’s ledger.
Bought the app back when it was paid up front?
Then you are a Founder. Every Top Shelf extra is yours automatically, forever — no restore dance, no fine print. There is a badge on your Home screen to prove it, and a thank-you behind it.
The good stuff is already in the house.
Let the app prove it.
For iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later. Pouring since 2017.
Cheers.