Ready for iPhone Duo. • Unfold your iPhone Duo and BarKeep spreads out across the big screen, then folds back neatly when you close it. Whatever you were doing stays put: a half-added bottle, an open recipe, a conversation. • Adding a bottle without a connection is much quicker. BarKeep now goes straight to the model on your iPhone instead of waiting for the network first. • If you use your own Claude key: Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 replace Opus 5 and Sonnet 5. Sonnet 5.5 reads labels as well as Opus for less. Your choice carries over to the newer version automatically.

Better bottle recognition. • When you photograph a label, BarKeep now uses Apple's Private Cloud Compute whenever it can. On 36 real bottle labels, it identified nearly twice as many correctly as before. • No connection? The model on your iPhone takes over automatically, so adding a bottle still works on a plane. • The first scan is quicker — BarKeep gets ready while you're looking at your shelf. • If a scan runs long, it tells you it's still working and offers to let you type the details in instead. Apple designed Private Cloud Compute not to keep your photo, and the photo is never sent to us.

Your recipe book nearly doubled. • 300 recipes, up from 170. New stirred classics like the Old Pal and Little Italy, modern favourites like the Gin Basil Smash and Final Ward, tiki drinks, highballs, spritzes, and hot drinks for colder nights — each with its own written tasting note. • 40 zero-proof drinks, including alcohol-free versions of the Gimlet, Whiskey Sour and Old Fashioned. • Start over when you need to. Settings now has Reset Inventory, which clears every bottle and its photo in one go. Your recipes stay put. • Smaller fixes, including a drink with milk that was wrongly listed as vegan.

Everything in BarKeep is drawn rather than photographed, and this update redraws most of it. • See what's left at a glance. A bottle's fill level now sits inside the bottle instead of washing across the card, and every card carries a level gauge — photographed or drawn. • A bottle you've finished says EMPTY, not LOW. • Cocktails are drawn. Each recipe now shows the glass it's served in, tinted by what's actually in it — so a Negroni and a Daiquiri no longer look alike while you're scrolling. It works for recipes you import, too. • Every glass is drawn as itself. A shot glass and a rocks glass used to be the same picture, as did all four mugs. Twenty-one glass types, twenty-one shapes. • Bottles are shaped like their real bottles. Redrawn from photographs of the real thing, so bitters, wine, whiskey and liqueur bottles are each recognisable on the shelf.

You can now rate BarKeep from Settings, and the app will occasionally ask once it has actually been useful to you. Small fixes behind the scenes.