Drinkkompassen
Cocktails & Bar Cabinet
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
You've got bottles at home. The app knows what you can make with them. 508 recipes, 6,000+ bottles and background stories on the classics worth knowing.
Tell the app what's on your shelf. It shows every drink you can make right now, which bottle works best for each recipe and how close you are to the ones you're short an ingredient for. The bar cabinet covers 6,000+ bottles and knows the difference between Appleton Estate and Smith & Cross, between an Amontillado and an Oloroso.
508 recipes with exact measurements, technique, garnish and images. Classics like Old Fashioned, Daiquiri and Negroni alongside a wide tiki collection and modern drinks. 215 of them come with background stories about origins, creators and how the recipe came to be.
Create drink menus and share them as a link or print them for the table.
Scan an unknown bottle with the camera and the app identifies it. Photograph a recipe from a book or website and the AI reads it and adds it to your collection.
Every drink shows estimated alcohol content based on ingredients and dilution. Scale any recipe up to as many servings as you need.
Favourites, your own recipes and notes sync automatically via iCloud.
DRINKKOMPASSEN PRO - £3.99, ONE-TIME PURCHASE
The knowledge bank with in-depth guides to rum, gin, whisky, tequila, brandy and vodka. Glassware guide, technique guide, ingredient guide and 25 make-your-own recipes. The background to every drink: who made it, where, and why the recipe looks the way it does. Similar drinks, recommended bottles and a shopping list. Pre-batch calculator for larger batches. Unlimited recipes of your own. 30 recipe scans and 30 bottle scans included.
Find drinks by flavour, by drink type or by spirit. Search by ingredient or show only what you can make right now. Four languages: Swedish, English, Norwegian and Danish. Measurements in cl, ml or oz.
more New in 3.3.0:
The home screen is rebuilt. Drinks are shown as a grid with images, and you find them by flavour rather than by name. Sharp, strong, fruity and four more categories, plus a theme that changes with the season.
If you would rather browse by form or by spirit, Drink types and Spirits sit next to the flavours. Sour, tiki, highball. Or gin, rum, mezcal.
Your bar has the same new look and is easier to take in at a glance. New is Mixers, where you say which tonic and sodas you have at home so the matching gets it right.
Favourites is now My page and gathers what is yours: favourites, drinks you have tried, your own recipes and your menus.
Plus twenty-three new spirit styles, better contrast throughout the app, and correct alphabetical order in all four languages.
3.3.0 Sep 26
New in 3.2.4:
Bar cabinet search now handles typos and word order. Type the words in any order, gron chartreuse still finds Chartreuse Verte.
Bottles match the catalogue more accurately on their own, and the style you pick is saved properly.
Twelve new spirit styles are available to choose from, including Aquavit, Sambuca and Soju.
Drinks you have tried now show their marker in Favourites as well.
Plus a fix for light mode and steadier background submissions.
3.2.4 Sep 4
New in 3.2.3:
Five new drinks have moved in: Little Italy, Roffignac, Lazy Lightning, Arsenic and Old Lace and Mephisto's Mai Tai, each with its own image.
The bar cabinet gets new spirit styles: Chili liqueur, Allspice Dram, Rabarbaro, Melon liqueur, Limoncello and more. Bottles that sat in overly broad categories are classified properly now. Sections open faster and the headers have been tidied up.
Bottle and recipe scanning now run more securely and more reliably, and around thirty drinks have had their ingredient links repaired.
Plus fixes and improvements.
3.2.3 Aug 10
New in 3.2:
Drink menus. Pick drinks from your favourites, set a title and a theme, then share the menu as a link or print it for the table. Your guests get every recipe on their phones.
The Friday drink. One notification a week, just in time for the weekend, with a drink worth trying. Switch it on in settings and off whenever you like.
Tried it. Tick off the drinks you have made and watch your count grow across all 435 recipes. Built on user suggestions.
Plus fixes and improvements.
3.2.1 Jul 11
New in 3.2:
Drink menus. Pick drinks from your favourites, set a title and a theme, then share the menu as a link or print it for the table. Your guests get every recipe on their phones.
The Friday drink. One notification a week, just in time for the weekend, with a drink worth trying. Switch it on in settings and off whenever you like.
Tried it. Tick off the drinks you have made and watch your count grow across all 435 recipes. Built on user suggestions.
Plus fixes and improvements.
3.2.0 Jul 9
Adonis, Bamboo and Sherry Cobbler can now be made straight from your bar cabinet. Sherry has become its own category with six styles, from bone-dry Fino and Manzanilla to sweet Pedro Ximénez, so Tio Pepe, La Guita, Lustau and Nectar end up where they belong instead of among the vermouth.
Paper Plane, Brooklyn and the other bitter classics now match correctly too. Amaro has a style of its own, and Nonino and the rest are no longer scattered among the liqueurs.
On top of that, bug fixes in drink matching and a round of tidying in the bottle catalogue.
Thanks to everyone who got in touch with feedback.
3.1.0 Jun 17
Your bar cabinet now syncs across your devices through iCloud. Add a bottle
on your phone and it is waiting on your iPad. Remove a bottle or one of
your own drinks and it disappears everywhere. It all happens automatically
in the background.
Drinks and bottle data now update continuously without an app update. New
recipes, new bottles in the catalogue and corrections appear on their own,
usually the next time you open the app.
Thanks to everyone who has submitted bottles and reported issues. You make
the app better.
3.0.0 Jun 13
Two new categories in the bar cabinet: Cachaça and Sparkling Wine. Pitú, Leblon, Yaguara and the other cachaça bottles now sit under their own heading instead of mixed in with the rum, and they match against Caipirinha and Batida recipes the way they should. Sparkling wine is new from scratch with Champagne, Prosecco, Cava and Crémant. That means Mimosa, French 75, Bellini and Negroni Sbagliato match correctly against what's on your shelf.
A Pantry section in the bar cabinet for ginger beer and other mixers you keep stocked. Switch it on and Moscow Mule matches without needing to register the bottle.
Search now ranks properly: type Manhattan and you get Manhattan first, not Chocolate Orange Manhattan.
Bug fixes: cachaça recipes and four ginger beer recipes (Moscow Mule, Dark 'n' Stormy, Suffering Bastard, Kentucky Mule) failed to match against your bottles. Both are fixed.
Thanks to everyone who reported issues.
2.5.3 May 22
Fix: notes on recipes now work as they should. Before, the keyboard would close after the first character you typed, so you had to reopen the field for every letter. Now you can write without interruption, and notes save reliably with iCloud sync as usual.
Thanks to everyone who reported the issue.
2.5.2 Apr 24
Better matching between your bar cabinet and the drinks. Previously, drinks that need several specific ingredients could show up under "can make" even if you only had one of them. Now only drinks you can actually mix with what you've got at home are listed.
That means the count under "can make" may drop after the update. That's the new precision — not a bug.
2.5.1 Apr 22
The bar cabinet has been rebuilt from the ground up. Multiples of the same bottle now collapse into a single entry with a quantity counter instead of becoming duplicates. When you scan a bottle that already exists in the catalogue, it matches automatically without review.
41 new bottles in the catalogue — including Tullamore Dew, Bulldog London Dry and four Chartreuse variants — bringing the total to over 5800.
New drink: Cane & Coral Punch. A rum classic with a Worthy Park float, grapefruit and nutmeg.
Better matching for tiki drinks. Falernum now links to Zombie, Mai Tai and Corn 'n Oil rather than every liqueur drink in the app.
Alphabetical sorting throughout the bar cabinet — both your own and the reference cabinet.
The keyboard no longer stalls when you type a search quickly.
Updated AI model for bottle scanning. Cynar, Pimm's, aperitifs and sherry are recognised more reliably.
Nine smaller bugs fixed — among them that "running low" status clears when you increase the quantity, that categories can be edited from the edit view, and that manually added bottles match against the catalogue.
2.5.0 Apr 17
Pro users can now top up scans directly from the bottle scanner when credits run out. Previously this only worked from the recipe scanner.
The "drinks I can make" filter now reflects what you can actually mix with your own bottles, not every recipe in the app. An empty cabinet still shows everything so you can explore.
Faster import when selecting multiple bottles from the reference cabinet.
2.4.2 Apr 10
The bottle matching got smarter. The app now knows the difference between a mild Jamaican rum for a Painkiller and a funky one for a Zombie. Your bottles are ranked by how well they fit each recipe, not just by category.
Over 200 drinks now have background stories. Who created the drink, where and why. The disputed origin of Mai Tai, how the Sazerac switched from cognac to rye, and why Hemingway took his Daiquiri without sugar.
New share card. The image fills the entire card with the drink name and app info as overlay. Three formats: Instagram, Facebook and Stories.
Major data quality pass under the hood. Standardised ingredient names, fixed glass types and techniques, cleaned up instructions.
2.4 Apr 1
27 new recipes including 24 tiki classics: Scorpion, Fog Cutter, Three Dots and a Dash, Pain Killer and more. 426 drinks in total.
Bottle matching now groups recommendations by ingredient. Captain's Grog shows separately which light, gold and dark rum to use.
Improved bottle scanning with smarter recognition and better duplicate handling.
New animated launch screen.
2.3.1 Mar 27
27 new recipes including 24 tiki classics: Scorpion, Fog Cutter, Three Dots and a Dash, Pain Killer and more. 426 drinks in total.
Bottle matching now groups recommendations by ingredient. Captain's Grog shows separately which light, gold and dark rum to use.
Improved bottle scanning with smarter recognition and better duplicate handling.
New animated launch screen.
2.3 Mar 27
31 new tiki and rum recipes: Ancient Mariner, Pearl Diver, Nui Nui, Ti' Punch, Swimming Pool, Bahama Mama and more. 399 cocktails in total.
The bar cabinet has grown from 481 to 5,700+ bottles. The full range of spirits, liqueurs and vermouths from Systembolaget is now included.
Background stories on 100+ tiki and rum drinks. The history behind Mai Tai, Zombie, Jungle Bird and many more, in all four languages.
5 new DIY recipes: Don's Mix #1, Gardenia Mix, Allspice Dram, Passion Fruit Syrup and Vanilla Syrup.
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
2.2.2 Mar 21
31 new tiki and rum recipes: Ancient Mariner, Pearl Diver, Nui Nui, Ti' Punch, Swimming Pool, Bahama Mama and more. 399 cocktails in total.
The bar cabinet has grown from 481 to 5,700+ bottles. The full range of spirits, liqueurs and vermouths from Systembolaget is now included.
Background stories on 100+ tiki and rum drinks. The history behind Mai Tai, Zombie, Jungle Bird and many more, in all four languages.
5 new DIY recipes: Don's Mix #1, Gardenia Mix, Allspice Dram, Passion Fruit Syrup and Vanilla Syrup.
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
2.2.1 Mar 20
24 new recipes with images. Including Carajillo, Pink Squirrel, Rum Swizzle, Rye Tai and modern drinks featuring Licor 43. 334 cocktails in total.
4 new DIY recipes: Falernum, Xanthan slurry, Acid-adjusted apple juice and Dried garnishes. The DIY section now has collapsible categories for easier browsing.
Bar cabinet now matches Licor 43, Japanese whisky, Madeira and coconut rum.
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
2.2 Mar 13
14 nya recept och bilder, inklusive egenutvecklade drinkar med syrajusterad äppelmust och fluffy juice-teknik.
Barskåpets likör-matchning är omarbetad. Chartreuse matchar nu bara Chartreuse-drinkar, inte allt grönt. Campari, Maraschino, Aperol och 20+ andra likörer har egna matchningsprofiler.
Buggfixar och stabilitet.
2.1 Mar 9
Version 2.0 är den största uppdateringen sedan appen lanserades.
Bilder på alla drinkar — 298 recept har nu bilder. Bläddra i gridvy eller behåll listan, du väljer.
ABV-beräkning — varje drink visar beräknad alkoholhalt baserat på ingredienser och utspädning.
Portionsskala — skala receptet från 1 till 10 portioner direkt i detaljvyn.
Barskåp 2.0 — 481 flaskor i ett uppdaterat referensbibliotek. Skanna en flaska med kameran så identifierar appen den automatiskt.
iCloud-synk — favoriter, egna recept och anteckningar synkas mellan dina enheter.
Pro-uppgradering (49 kr, engångspris)
Kunskapsbanken med spirit-, glas- och teknikguider.
Smakfilter på sex dimensioner. Liknande drinkar. Rekommenderade flaskor baserade på ditt barskåp.
Inköpslista med direktlänk till Systembolaget. Pre-Batch-kalkylator. Obegränsat med egna recept och AI-skanningar.
2.0 Mar 6
- Nytt språkstöd — Byt mellan svenska, engelska, norska och danska direkt i appen.
- Välj måttenhet — Växla mellan cl, ml och oz i inställningar.
- 48 nya recept — Biblioteket har vuxit från 250 till 298 drinkar, inklusive 6 bidrag från er i communityn.
- Bättre flaskmatchning — Barskåpet är smartare på att matcha dina flaskor mot rätt recept. Fler stilar stöds och felaktiga kopplingar rättas automatiskt.
- Bättre data under huven — Ingredienser, tekniker och glastyper är omstrukturerade för snabbare sökning och mer pålitliga resultat.
1.5 Feb 24
KUNSKAP-FLIKEN
- Teknikguider — Skaka, Röra, Muddla, Dry shake steg för steg
- Ingrediensbibliotek med substitut och rekommenderade märken
- Gör Själv-recept för sockerlag, siraper, orgeat och grenadine
- Super Juice-recept (Kevin Kos metod) — mer juice, mindre svinn
INGREDIENS-SÖK
- "Vad kan jag göra?" — välj ingredienser, se matchande drinkar
- Snabbval för populära ingredienser
- Tydlig matchningsgrad för varje drink
RECENSIONER & FOTON
- Lägg till foton på dina drinkar
- Betygsätt och skriv kommentarer
- Se vad andra tycker
COMMUNITY
- Dela egna recept med alla användare
- Community-märkning på delade recept
FÖRBÄTTRINGAR
- Drink-räknare i barskåpet
- Smakprofiler med visuella staplar
- Nya ikoner för glas, flaskor och ingredienser
- Ihopfällbara sektioner för bättre överblick
1.4 Feb 12
Betygsätt drinkar
Ge drinkar 1-5 stjärnor och se snittbetyg från alla användare.
Dela recept
Fotografera din drink och dela ett snyggt receptkort via Messages, Instagram och andra appar.
Community-recept
Se recept från andra användare, markerade med en blå badge. Filtrera på "Community" för att hitta dem.
Förbättrat gränssnitt
- Sökrutan flyttad till toppen
- Filtermenyn visar ikoner och antal
- Smidigare sökning
250 recept & 438 flaskor
Utökat receptbibliotek och ett stort referensbarskåp.
1.2 Feb 4
New in 3.3.0:
The home screen is rebuilt. Drinks are shown as a grid with images, and you find them by flavour rather than by name. Sharp, strong, fruity and four more categories, plus a theme that changes with the season.
If you would rather browse by form or by spirit, Drink types and Spirits sit next to the flavours. Sour, tiki, highball. Or gin, rum, mezcal.
Your bar has the same new look and is easier to take in at a glance. New is Mixers, where you say which tonic and sodas you have at home so the matching gets it right.
Favourites is now My page and gathers what is yours: favourites, drinks you have tried, your own recipes and your menus.
Plus twenty-three new spirit styles, better contrast throughout the app, and correct alphabetical order in all four languages.
more Version 3.3.0 Sep 26
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