Proof & Ash
Bourbon & cigar shelf
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Proof & Ash is a private shelf for your bourbon and a humidor for your cigars, on your iPhone.
Point the camera at a bottle or a band. The label is read on your phone and matched to a shared catalog of around a thousand bourbons and cigars, with proof, age, style and the flavors reviewers usually find. If it isn't in the catalog, add it by hand and it lives on your shelf like any other bottle.
Log the pour or the smoke in a few taps: a verdict, the flavors you actually got, a note, a photo if you like. Over time the app builds a picture of your palate from your own history, not from scores.
TONIGHT
One screen that answers the question you have at nine o'clock: what should I open? It leans on what you've loved, what you haven't touched in a while, and what's already open.
SHELF AND HUMIDOR
Every bottle with how much is left, when you last poured it, and what it cost. Every cigar with a count. Chips for wheated, high rye, barrel proof, bottled-in-bond and the rest, drawn from the catalog's facts rather than guessed from the name.
WRITTEN FOR YOU, ON YOUR PHONE
On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the app writes a short note on each bottle and an honest read of your whole shelf, using only your own history. Nothing is sent anywhere. Phones without Apple Intelligence show the facts instead.
CAPTIONS
When a pour deserves a post, the app drafts a caption from the facts of that pour. Share it wherever you like; the app never posts on its own.
YOURS, FULL STOP
Your bottles, cigars, notes and photos are stored on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud, where they follow you to your next phone. There is no account to create, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. The developer cannot see your shelf.
FREE, AND RESERVE
Free is a real app: up to 15 bottles on the shelf, 10 kinds of cigar in the humidor, 5 label scans, plus manual add, catalog search, pours and smokes, Tonight, and export. Reserve lifts the caps, makes scanning unlimited, and adds Insights, the written note on each bottle and cigar, and drafted captions. Reserve is $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $59.99 once. Whatever you add is yours on any plan or none: nothing is ever hidden or deleted, and Export builds a zip of everything at any time.
Proof & Ash is a record-keeping tool for adults of legal age to buy alcohol and tobacco where they live.
1.1.0
Infinity bottle. Keep one bottle topped up with the ends of others. The app tracks what went in, the proof when every proof is known, and roughly what it tastes like now. It counts as one bottle.
Blind flight. Pick two to four open bottles and let someone pour. You taste each glass without names, call it, then guess. The app keeps score and saves each glass as a pour.
Tonight now picks a pour and a cigar together, from what you own and the evenings you liked. Pour and light logs both at once.
Recaps. The quarter so far on the Log tab, and the full quarter or year when it closes: what you poured and smoked most, what you finished, your best evening, and how your palate moved. It shares as a card.
Bottles now remember the day they were opened.
Label reading is better. A cigar band reads as a maker and a line, and a half-typed search finishes itself. Small fixes throughout.
The developer, Paul Cobb, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Paul Cobb
- Size
- 7.3 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Frequent
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Reserve Lifetime $59.99
- Reserve Monthly $3.99
- Reserve Yearly $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Paul Cobb

