Barback: Cocktails
Recipes, bar tools, ideas
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Ask the bartender in plain English. 400+ hand-tuned recipes. Search by flavor. Vibe-based discovery. Track your bar.
Barback is a serious cocktail app.
400+ hand-tuned recipes. A flavor-vector similarity engine that actually understands what tastes like what. An AI bartender that listens to plain English.
FEATURES
My Bar
Track every bottle, mixer, and garnish you own. The whole app reshapes around what you have at home. No account required. Your inventory lives on your device.
What Can I Make Tonight
Instant list of cocktails you can build right now with what is in your bar. Plus a "one ingredient away" view that shows exactly what to grab on the next store run to unlock more drinks.
AI Bartender
Ask in plain English. "Make this less sweet." "What pairs with steak?" "Invent something with mezcal and pineapple." "Suggest a non-alcoholic version." The bartender knows every recipe in the app and can recommend from the library, riff on the drink in front of you, or invent something new in our recipe format when nothing fits.
Vibe Discovery
Twelve flavor-vector chips on the Tonight tab: Smoky, Bright and Citrusy, Bitter Aperitivo, Floral, Tropical, and more. Tap one for a curated shelf. The chips rotate each launch so the feed stays fresh.
Similarity Engine
Every recipe has a twelve-dimension flavor vector. "If you liked the Negroni" is not guesswork. It is cosine similarity over real tasting notes. The app surfaces drinks that share DNA with the ones you love.
Menus and Batching
Building cocktails for a party of twelve? Build a menu and Barback consolidates every ingredient across drinks into one shopping list. Scale by serving count.
Clear Recipes
Every recipe shows ingredients with measurements, numbered method steps, glassware, technique, ABV estimate, and the drink's story. Readable while you are behind the bar with sticky hands.
Substitutions
Out of an ingredient? Pro unlocks Barback's substitution engine. Smart swaps ranked by how close they are to the original.
Pro (one-time upgrade, no subscription)
Unlocks My Bar editing, What Can I Make, the AI Bartender, menus and batching, the Flavor Wheel filter, and ingredient substitutions. Buy once. Yours forever.
PRIVACY
No account. No email. No tracking. Your inventory lives on your device. Bartender queries are routed through a server that authenticates your iPhone cryptographically using Apple App Attest, so we can rate-limit and ban abusive devices but cannot identify you. We do not store queries beyond short-lived operational logs.
ABOUT
Built carefully by one person who got tired of cocktail apps that treat home bartenders like beginners. 400+ recipes covering every classic, every modern standard, and a careful selection of contemporary craft drinks. Every recipe has been measured, tasted, and photographed.
400+ hand-tuned cocktail recipes. A vibe-based discovery engine. An AI bartender that listens to plain English. A flavor-vector similarity engine that actually understands what tastes like what.
Performance improvements and bug fixes.
The developer, Intelligent Sands LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Intelligent Sands LLC
- Size
- 14.6 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Frequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Barback Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © Intelligent Sands