Bart
The Best Bartender App for Your Home Bar
What a bartender app should actually do, how Bart works, and how it compares to a recipe list you could get from any website.
Search "bartender app" and you get two things: recipe lists with thousands of drinks, and bartending games. Neither solves the actual problem, which is not "what cocktails exist" — it is "what can I make right now".
What a bartender app should do
| Job | A recipe list | Bart |
|---|---|---|
| Look up a known drink | Yes | Yes |
| Tell you what you can make tonight | No | Yes |
| Show drinks you are one ingredient from | No | Yes |
| Rank which bottle to buy next | No | Yes |
| Suggest a substitute you already own | No | Yes |
| Track what you have tried | Sometimes | Yes |
Recipe count is the wrong metric. An app with 8,500 drinks and no inventory matching leaves you scrolling. An app with 210 and a bar model tells you the four you can pour.
How Bart works
- My Bar. Search the ingredient list and tap what you own — spirits, liqueurs, mixers, syrups, bitters, garnishes.
- Matching. Bart compares your bar against every recipe and splits the result three ways: what you can make, what you are one ingredient short of, and what needs a real shop.
- Next bottle. It computes which single purchase adds the most new drinks to your bar, and shows the number first.
- Substitutes. When something is missing, it checks the alternatives against your shelf rather than listing generic swaps.
- Lists. Want to Try, Tried, Favourited, plus custom collections and personal notes.
The honest limits
- iPhone and iPad only, iOS 16 or later. There is no Android version.
- 210 recipes, not thousands. 104 are free; the rest need Pro.
- Cocktail notes are a Pro feature.
- The rating is 4.9, from 22 ratings. That is a small sample and we are not going to dress it up as more.
Try the idea before you download
Every page on this site is a small version of what the app does with your whole bar. Pick two bottles you own and see: what can I make with…
Try it on your own shelf
Free to download, no account, and the ingredient matching works from the first bottle you add.