bartender.live
What can I make? Ask your bar.
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
bartender.live tells you what you can make with what you already have.
Check off the bottles in your bar and the app narrows a library of more than a thousand cocktails down to the ones you can pour tonight - complete, with nothing missing. Free.
WHAT'S FREE
- The whole drink library, with photos, honest measures, glassware, and the story behind each drink. New recipes almost every day.
- My Bar: track as many bottles as you like, synced across your devices with iCloud.
- I Can Make: the filter that started it all. One tap and you see only the cocktails your shelf can already pour.
- Favorites and sharing: keep the good ones and send the recipe to whoever is thirsty.
- Ingredient pages: what each bottle is, how it tastes, and every drink that calls for it.
TOP SHELF
One purchase, kept forever, no subscription:
- The Almost filter: every cocktail you are exactly one bottle away from making, with the bottle named.
- Home Screen widgets.
- The daily cocktail suggestion.
- Suggestions limited to what you can actually make.
- Custom icons for your favorites.
FOUNDERS
Bought the app back when it cost money? You are a Founder: every Top Shelf feature is yours automatically, forever. The first round was on you, and the house does not forget that.
Cheers!
more Top Shelf purchases now tell you what happened if something doesn't go through, instead of just resetting silently. Restore Purchases also lets you know when it can't find a previous purchase.
2.3.3 28 Sept
Fixed an issue where tapping Buy on Amazon could open the Amazon app instead of the product page. Buy links now open in a built-in browser so you stay in bartender.live.
2.3.2 24 Sept
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.3.1 15 Sept
Your bar, updated from the recipe you are reading.
- Every ingredient on a cocktail now has a switch. Flip it and that bottle joins My Bar, and your "I Can Make" and "Almost" lists follow along.
- An A to Z index down the side of the Drinks and My Bar lists.
- The new-drinks badge now appears on the New list itself, not only on the tab. Thanks to the reader who wrote in to say it was a mystery.
- Search matches the beginning of words, so "Mai Tai" finds Mai Tais instead of every recipe that happens to say "cocktail." Accents no longer matter either.
- When a drink is one bottle away, that bottle is now named for everyone.
Cheers!
2.3.0 31 Aug
Faster, and easier to find what you want.
- Search now matches ingredient names, and multi-word searches combine terms, so "Gin Campari" finds Negronis.
- New Almost teasers show how close a drink is when you are browsing the full library.
- New installs open with the whole library already loaded, and lists load their images instantly.
- The widget now shows your latest drink even when you are offline.
- Fixes an issue where Top Shelf status could carry over from another install.
Cheers!
2.2.4 22 Aug
Speed. This update makes bartender.live feel instant:
- New installs open with the full drink library already loaded - no first-launch wait.
- Drink lists and cards now load their images instantly and cache them, so scrolling is smoother and uses less data.
- The widget shows your latest drink even when you are offline.
Cheers!
2.2.2 12 Aug
Introduces Top Shelf, a one-time unlock for the extras: the Almost filter, Home Screen widgets, the daily cocktail suggestion, only-makeable suggestions, and custom favorite icons. Customers who bought the app when it was paid are Founders: everything is unlocked automatically, forever. Cheers!
2.2.1 11 Aug
bartender.live is now free to download. Everything you love stays free: the full drink library, unlimited My Bar tracking, and I Can Make drink matching.
New: Top Shelf, a one-time unlock for the extras - the Almost filter, Home Screen widgets, the daily cocktail suggestion, only-makeable suggestions, and custom favorite icons.
Bought the app when it was paid? You are a Founder: every Top Shelf feature is yours automatically, forever. Look for the new Founder badge on your Home screen, and thank you.
Also in this release: new favorite icon styles, sharper Dark Mode controls, and assorted fixes.
Cheers!
2.2.0 4 Aug
New: Achievements and a daily streak. Earn badges as you mix, explore, and keep your streak going - find them on the Help tab.
A freshened Supplies shop: new Glassware, Syrups, Tiki Mugs, and Smokers sections, up-to-date picks, prices at a glance, and pull-to-refresh.
Dark Mode polish throughout, including the Refresh button on the Help screen.
Faster, lighter drink-library updates behind the scenes, plus assorted fixes and refinements.
Thanks for pouring with bartender.live. Cheers!
2.1.4 29 Jul
Your bar just got a top-to-bottom polish:
- Spotlight now shows the cocktail photo right in your search results. Find a drink by name and see it before you even open the app.
- New Dark and Tinted app icons to match your Home Screen style.
- Tapping a drink in the widget now opens it exactly like tapping it in the Drink Library, instead of a pop-up card.
- New "Reset My Bar" option in Settings clears every ingredient toggle in one tap. Your favorites stay right where they are.
- New "Only Suggest Drinks I Can Make" option keeps Suggest a Drink to cocktails you can actually pour.
- Tag pills now wrap cleanly instead of breaking mid-word.
- Drinks stay marked "new" for two days instead of four, so the New list stays fresh.
- Much faster and smoother throughout: quicker launches, snappier ingredient toggles, and fixes for freezes and battery drain.
- Fixed a bug that could show every ingredient twice in a recipe.
This update makes Dark Mode fully legible throughout the app. The selected filter on the Drinks screen, the tab bar, and other controls that could look washed-out or disappear in Dark Mode now have proper contrast in both light and dark. Includes behind-the-scenes reliability improvements.
Thanks for pouring with bartender.live. Cheers!
2.1.3 24 Jul
bartender 2.0 — The biggest update ever! Rebuilt from the ground up.
• See what you can pour, right now. The new Drinks filter shows exactly what you can make with your bar — plus an "Almost" view for drinks you're just an ingredient or two away from.
• Missing something? Tap any missing ingredient to shop for it in seconds.
• Never miss a new recipe. Fresh drinks are flagged with a NEW badge.
• Share a round. Send any recipe straight from the system share sheet.
• Better widgets. Shuffle is back, each widget runs independently, and lock-screen widgets are sharper than ever.
• Faster and more reliable, with smoother iCloud sync of your bar and favorites — and a refreshed look across iPhone and iPad.
Cheers!
2.0 16 Jul
This is just a minor update to make everything look cooler on the latest iPhones.
1.52 13/01/2022
We've updated the search box so you can find recipes by ingredients as well as title. Just enter "vodka" -- for example -- to find all the cocktails that are built with that spirit.
This version also includes several minor bug fixes to cocktail displays and widgets.
1.51 08/01/2021
Now with widgets! Get cocktail suggestions right on your home screen!
And finally - by popular demand - there are now cocktail thumbnails right in the Drinks library!
This update also includes minor bug fixes.
1.49 01/10/2020
Now with widgets! Get cocktail suggestions right on your home screen!
And finally - by popular demand - there are now cocktail thumbnails right in the Drinks library!
This update also includes minor bug fixes.
1.48 29/09/2020
Now with widgets! Get cocktail suggestions right on your home screen!
And finally - by popular demand - there are now cocktail thumbnails right in the Drinks list!
Fix: Clicking on a widget now takes you directly to that cocktail’s recipe.
1.47 28/09/2020
Now with widgets! Get cocktail suggestions right on your home screen!
And finally - by popular demand - there are now cocktail thumbnails right in the Drinks list!
1.46 26/09/2020
Now with widgets! Get cocktail suggestions right on your home screen!
1.45 25/09/2020
Now with Dark Mode!
Also fixed a bug that was causing some silliness with section titles.
1.43 28/09/2019
Sharing a cocktail on Twitter or Facebook is now just a little bit easier.
1.42 11/07/2019
Minor bug fixes and performance improvements
1.41 19/04/2019
Shared drink recipes now include a link directly to the cocktail entry in the app.
This update also includes some minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.40 16/03/2019
This minor update includes a few performance improvements and bug fixes.
1.30 04/12/2018
This quick update to your favorite cocktail guide includes several minor bug fixes and improvements.
1.29 21/11/2018
Another fantastic update to your favorite cocktail guide!
- fixed a bug that caused some bar items to not sort alphabetically
- moved your Favorite Drinks list into the main Drink Library
- improved new drink download efficiency
- added a curated list of the best amateur bartender supplies
1.28 17/11/2018
Top Shelf purchases now tell you what happened if something doesn't go through, instead of just resetting silently. Restore Purchases also lets you know when it can't find a previous purchase.
more Version 2.3.3 28 Sept
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