Cocktail Flow - Drink Recipes 17+

Overall I was happy to find this app. From the description it sounded like what I needed and it has a lot. I will be using it, but it has a feel that the app is geared for the beginners.
Here are few options that it was missing for me:
When a user fills out “My Bar”, the app gives the option to select the ingredients ( that is an excellent feature). The issue is that selection is extremely limited. There are hundreds of gins, vodkas, scotchs, etc... available and they can taste as totally different beverages. For example, In my pantry, I have 6 different gins that have very different botanicals
1. There is no place to add new pantry items
2. there is no place to add the flavor profile of the beverage
3. The cocktails do not have profile descriptions.
4. Some recipes were changed from original. This forces the user to check the recipe with other sources.
5. Since there are no unique cocktails, why would anybody pay $3.99 per month. This makes no sense.
6. It would be nice to have an option to create a shopping list where users can put items that they need to buy on the next shopping trip.
7. Since some of the items are hard to find, it would be nice to show local places that might carry them.
8. Ingredient substitution. For example, some gins have similar profile while others will change final taste.

I’ve liked Cocktail Flow for a while: it’s got a good interface, has handy features (like keeping a “pantry” to help determine what drinks you can make), and has a decently large if relatively standard selection of cocktails. There are a few things that are off, like some of the recipes being copied to the app wrong, or the pantry feature having a relatively small selection of less basic liquors and mixers, or some cocktails being made oddly simple to fit in better with their sorting and ingredient database. Nevertheless, I thought it was the best iOS app for most purposes.

But... the pricing. I didn’t mind it too much when I first started using it, and it had a few $.99 -$2 cocktail packs that were mostly seasonal or other special occasion related. However, ever since the big revamp I think the pricing is kind of ridiculous: $20 a year or $4 dollars a month just to use this app that’s just doing what dozens of other apps and websites do, for free or just a single payment?
When you look at the lists, more than half of the cocktails, including some very basic ones, are premium, which is incredibly frustrating. I know app developers have to make money somehow, but I would rather have just paid $5 once and had a few small IAP for seasonal collections at the worst, or something. But just adding some improperly transcribed cocktail recipes copied from someone else’s cookbook? Not worth it

I love this app! It has given me so many new drinks to try! It has soooo much potential to be better but considering what it is, I’m pretty happy with it. I would like there to be a strength category. Also, it would be nice if you clicked on surprise me and you didn’t like what you see, you could hit a “refresh” button to load another one instead of having to back out to the main menu and enter it again. I would also like to see different variations of these drinks. For example, the rattle snake recipe in here calls for absenthe but every rattle snake I’ve ever had does not have it. Also, the ones I have had use southern comfort and this recipe doesn’t. Minor flaws, but overall, an excellent app. Especially if you want to broaden your horizon. I know there’s other suggestions I have, but cannot think of them right now.