The Piper's Passport
Tasting journal & cellar log
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
The Piper's Passport is a private tasting journal and collection manager for adult pipe collectors — the kind of ledger a gentleman would have kept on his desk a hundred years ago, now in your pocket.
It does not sell tobacco, and it does not encourage smoking. It encourages journaling and tasting — a careful, private record of a hobby you already practice: what you tried, what you tasted, and what you keep.
Every journal entry becomes its own page: the blend, the leaf, the cut, the pipe, the flavors you found. The page is stamped with a customs-style mark, signed in your own hand. Over time, the pages stack up. The passport fills in.
WHAT'S INSIDE
• A curated catalog of 220+ classic blends — G.L. Pease, Cornell & Diehl, Samuel Gawith, Esoterica, Peterson, Rattray, Mac Baren and many more. Pick a known blend and the leaf, country, cut and strength fill in automatically.
• A two-wheel flavor chart — seventeen aroma families and a taste-and-feel wheel — so your notes read like a sommelier's, not a shrug.
• Your Palate — the app learns what you enjoy from what you record, and charts your personal flavor profile.
• Recommendations that explain themselves — each pick names the blend in your journal that earned it, matched to your documented taste. Ask for a style — a Virginia, an English — and see what fits.
• A Cellar that knows what you own, what it cost, its total value, when you opened a tin, and what has been aging longest.
• A Pipe Rack with provenance — the estate find, the gift, the show purchase. Every pipe has a story; the rack keeps it.
• Honors earned through the quality and range of your record — leaves explored, houses toured, notes written. Each year is its own volume; the lifetime ledger carries forever.
• An optional journaling reminder — a nudge to write today's entry before the details fade.
• Passport-style pages and a Year in Pipe recap you can share as an image — a hand-stamped page from your own records.
BUILT FOR COLLECTORS, NOT EXTRACTED FROM THEM
No advertising. No third-party trackers. No analytics SDK reading your behavior. The piper's data belongs to the piper.
Works fully offline — every feature is local-first. Sign in (optional) and your journal, cellar, signature and rack sync across your devices.
FOR ADULTS ONLY
This app is intended solely for adults of legal age to purchase tobacco where they live — 21 or older in the United States. Tobacco use carries serious health risks, including cancer, heart disease, and nicotine addiction; no form of tobacco use is safe. The Piper's Passport documents a hobby. It does not promote one.
WHO IT'S FOR
Collectors who treat their hobby with care — the kind who can describe last Tuesday's bowl in vivid detail and want a place to put it. New pipers who want to make sense of what they are tasting. Cellar-builders who need to know when their Penzance crosses the one-year aging mark. And anyone who finds the ritual of pressing a stamp into a leather book deeply, quietly pleasing.
The Piper's Passport is for the long view. Pages fill slowly. The book gets richer.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Your feedback built this update.
• Edit any journal page: date, time, flavor wheels, notes, all of it
• Finish a tin in the cellar and record whether you would buy it again
• The community palate: opt in to share your flavor wheels anonymously, and Passport+ pipers see how the community charts each blend
• New Tar note on the aroma wheel
• Nearly 900 blends, now including the complete Cornell & Diehl Small Batch line
• Blend origins now show where each blend is actually made
• Try Passport+ free for 7 days
• Fixes: passport signing on first launch, stamp lettering on long names, dark mode selections, and more
The developer, Joseph Reid, 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:
- Contact Info
- User Content
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Joseph Reid
- Size
- 43.1 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 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
- Passport+ $11.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Joseph Reid