About Bartender’s Manual

Bartender’s Manual is an easy-to-use database of cocktails designed to help you track your home bar and decide what drinks you want to make.

Key features include:

  • A database of 900+ cocktail recipes, adapted from some of our favorite cocktail sources.
  • A hierarchy of cocktail ingredients that intelligently determines which ingredients can substitute for which.
  • Home bar tracking and smart filtering that lets you easily see what drinks you can make with the bottles you’ve got.
  • Our secret-sauce smart ingredient suggestions feature that suggests what to add to your home bar to maximize the cocktails you can make.
  • Support for rating and commenting on cocktails to share your bartending tips with the community.
  • The ability to organize recipes into a cocktail list and track your progress through it.
Try Bartender’s Manual on Android and iOS!

Bartender’s Manual for Android is now available in early beta. Check it out if you want to use Bartender’s Manual on the go!

We don’t currently have a dedicated iOS app for Bartender’s Manual, but this website is mobile-friendly and we’ve tested it extensively on iPhones and iPads. Let us know if you run into any issues!

Questions? Feedback?
Join our community on the Bartender’s Manual Discord server to discuss Bartender’s Manual, our Android app, feature requests, issues you’ve run into, cocktails you’d like to see, general feedback, or just chat in general about home bartending!
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Changelog
February 18, 2026
  • web Add "Your Profile" and "Your Suggestions" to nav sidebar
February 17, 2026
  • web Make all pages usable on mobile
  • web Onboarding flow in which new users can quickly select commonly-used ingredients for their home bar
  • web “Allow substitutions” checkbox in Suggestions page
  • webandroid Consider ingredient descendants for makeability for cocktail lists
  • web Cookies consent banner
February 16, 2026
  • web Hierarchical ingredients view
  • web Support for including uploaded images for comments
  • web Bugfix: new collections received blank name
  • webandroid Bugfix: deleting collections didn't work
  • Data update: Treat Angostura, Peychaud's, and Amargo bitters consistently as brands rather than sub-categories
January 24, 2026
  • webandroid Bugfix: ingredient substitutions weren't using the currently selected collection
January 13, 2026
  • web Ability to edit and delete cocktail comments
  • web Similar Cocktails cards on cocktail page
January 12, 2026
  • web Ability to rate cocktails and see average cocktail ratings
December 2025
  • webandroid Fixed how “ownership” is determined, to reflect relationships within the ingredient hierarchy. So for example, if a recipe calls for “aged rum” and you have ”aged Cuban rum”, the app will now correctly say that you own a matching ingredient.
  • webandroid Redesigned the home page, cocktail recipe page and ingredient page to present more information in a clearer way.
  • web Started introducing a responsive design to the web app so it can work better on smaller screens (i.e. mobile devices).
  • android Started moving the Android app towards feature parity with the web app, as well as starting to unify the design language between the Android and web apps.
  • webandroid Completely rearchitected the backend so now there are smaller queries that return just the information needed for each individual component on each page - so pages should now load a lot faster on both the web and Android interfaces.
  • web Added support for affiliate links for cocktail books and for specific bottles.
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