Mix like a pro. Mocktails welcome. A comprehensive recipe book for cocktails and zero-proof drinks — with smart help when you need it.
Version 1.0.10 — May 29, 2026
Most cocktail apps are stale recipe lists wrapped in ads. TendaBar is a complete bartending companion — built for hosts, sober-curious folks, and the just-curious alike.
Every recipe — curated, custom, or freshly created — shows a color-coded strength chip: Light · Medium · Strong · Very Strong, plus the estimated ABV %. Filter the whole library by strength so a casual brunch sparkler and a Negroni-night stiff one don't end up in the same shaker. No other cocktail app does this.
Building a sugar-free Old Fashioned? Keto Margarita? Vegan Brandy Alexander? The custom drink creator now asks: Sugar-free, Low-calorie, Low-ABV, Keto, Vegan, Gluten-free, Dairy-free. Pick what applies, get a drink that actually honors the restriction — not just a label slapped on a standard recipe.
Hundreds of cocktails — classics, modern, regional, seasonal. Every recipe includes ingredients, glassware, garnish, technique, and a bit of lore. Every single recipe ships with a real image.
Non-alcoholic recipes get equal billing — not buried in a "kids menu" tab. Sober-curious, designated drivers, pregnant guests, dry-January folks all get to host with style.
Out of triple sec? No orgeat? Tap "Substitute" and TendaBar suggests a realistic swap with the right proportion and a note on how it'll change the flavor. Conservative, specific, never weird.
Want a Sugar-Free White Russian? Keto Negroni? Vegan Brandy Alexander? Tap Substitute → "Make it…" and pick the restrictions. TendaBar rewrites every ingredient that conflicts (e.g. simple syrup → stevia, cream → coconut cream), keeps what works, and tells you the net impact ("Saves ~120 cal and 18g sugar"). Then save it as a new drink with a fun auto-suggested name like Skinny White Russian or Naked Old Fashioned.
Browse opens with three taps right at the top: Light & easy · Medium pour · Stiff one. Pick the energy of your night and jump straight into a matching shortlist — no filter sheet required.
Tell it the spirit, the mood, the season. Get a brand-new recipe — name, build, garnish, story — tuned to your bar. Pro users can also have a hero image painted for the drink. Save the keepers as your house drinks.
Found a Negroni variation on a cocktail blog? A friend texted you their Old Fashioned? Paste it into TendaBar and we fit it to the same shape as the bundled drinks — same glassware, technique, strength chip, garnish. Or share from any app on your phone and pick TendaBar from the share sheet.
Tap share on any drink to send a tappable link. Friends with TendaBar land directly on the recipe inside the app — lossless, no AI reparse. Friends without get a clean preview page with a Get the app button.
Type "Orange Juice" — we infer Citrus. Type "Bombay Sapphire" — we infer Gin. Ghost-text suggestions appear after two characters from a 200+ entry pool. Even one ingredient unlocks near-matches; add more for tighter hits.
Point the camera at any bottle, can, or label and TendaBar reads it, then adds it to your bar with the right name and category. Spirits, liqueurs, mixers, bitters, even hard seltzers and ready-to-drinks. Build a 30-bottle home bar in minutes.
Scale a single drink up to 12 servings (or down to a half-pour) with proper math — including dilution, ice, and garnish multipliers. Hosting just got easier.
Log what you mixed, what you tweaked, who liked what. Build a personal palate over time. Spot patterns. Find your style.
Build your house cocktail. Add a name, a story, your own photo (or have one painted), pour-count notes. Your custom drinks get their own carousel on Browse and the same full-page recipe view as the curated library. Refine over time. Keep them forever with cloud backup.
Snap or pick a photo of every drink you make and save it alongside the recipe — multiple shots per drink. Camera + photo library, native on both iOS and Android. Photos stay local on your device, full-screen viewer included.
Tap "View all" on any drink row for a full list with sort (A–Z, easiest first, fewest ingredients) and stacked filters (difficulty, base spirit, occasion). Find the right pour for the moment.
Sign in with Apple or Google to back up your custom drinks, photos, and journal across devices. The only reason you'd ever need an account.
No account required to use the app. No email, no signup, no friction. The whole free experience works offline with zero strings attached.
Filter by spirit, occasion, difficulty, time-to-make, alcoholic vs zero-proof, dietary, or by what's already in your fridge. Find the right pour in seconds.
Shaking vs stirring. Ice physics and dilution. Balancing acid and sugar. Building a home bar from scratch. The fundamentals every host should know.
A built-in reference for coupes, Nick & Noras, highballs, and more — plus how to express citrus, flame an orange peel, and skewer a perfect olive flag.
Active subscribers can send a "Round" — your friend gets 30 days of Pro free, you get 30 days added to your subscription when they redeem. Drinks are social. Built-in. Gift recipients can redeem and use Pro for the gift period, but sending new rounds is paid-only.
The whole curated library lives on your device. Tailgates, cabin trips, basement bars — pour without bars on your signal.
Full Material 3 design. Toggleable light and dark mode that actually matches the time of day you're hosting. Bar-low lighting included.
Image-rich curated DB updated monthly with new seasonal recipes. Smart features improve over time. Native iPhone, iPad, and Android — not a web wrapper.
One universal app. On iPad, the library lays out in a wide grid for kitchen-counter hosting; on phones it stays tight and one-handed. Your favorites, custom drinks, and journal sync across every device when you sign in.
Anonymous-first. Mocktails get equal billing. Smart ingredient swaps and a custom-drink creator when you want them. Here's what shipping looks like.
Open the app — no signup. Scroll the curated library. Mark favorites. Read the technique tabs. Cocktails and mocktails, side by side.
Make drinks from the book. Out of an ingredient? Tap "Substitute" for a smart swap. Take notes on what you'd change next time.
Upgrade to Pro to design custom drinks, paint a hero image for each one, save them with your own photos, and back them up to the cloud. Become the bartender your friends call first.
Most cocktail apps are stale recipe lists from a decade ago — ad-stuffed, mocktails as an afterthought, and zero help if you're cutting sugar, alcohol, dairy, or carbs. TendaBar is built different. Strength on every recipe. Dietary-aware drink creation. Mocktails as equals. Smart swaps when you're missing an ingredient. Every feature you'd actually use, in one app.
| Feature | TendaBar | Mixel | Cocktail Flow | Cocktail Party | Make Me a Cocktail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free / $4.99/mo / $24.99/yr / $49.99 lifetime | Free w/ ads · $1.99/mo · $11.99/yr | Free w/ ads · ~$4.99/mo · ~$19.99/yr | $3.99 once | Freemium + premium sub |
| Drink strength chip on every recipe (ABV %) | ✓ Light/Medium/Strong/Very Strong + % | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Filter library by strength | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Dietary restrictions in drink creator | ✓ Sugar-free, Keto, Vegan, GF, Dairy-free, Low-ABV, Low-cal | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Convert any classic to dietary variant | ✓ "Make it…" rewrites every ingredient | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Save substitutions as new drinks (auto-named) | ✓ "Skinny White Russian", "Naked Old Fashioned" | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Mocktails treated as first-class | ✓ Equal billing, separate browsing | Tag only | Sub-category | Minimal | Tag only |
| Smart ingredient swaps | ✓ Conservative, specific | Partial (Bart chat) | ✕ | ✕ | Partial (premium) |
| Custom drink creator | ✓ | ✓ (Bart) | ✕ | ✕ | Premium |
| Every recipe has an image | ✓ All recipes | Mostly | Some behind paywall | ✓ | ✓ |
| "What can I make?" bar inventory | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ "My Bar" | ✕ | ✓ |
| Batch & party scaling | ✓ Up to 12 servings | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Tasting journal | ✓ | Premium | ✕ | ✕ | Premium |
| Photo upload to your own creations | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | Premium |
| Anonymous-first (no signup wall) | ✓ | Account required | Account required | ✓ | Account required |
| Cloud backup of custom drinks | ✓ | Premium | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Referral / gift mechanic | ✓ Buy a friend a round | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Full offline mode | ✓ | Partial | Partial | ✓ | Web-first |
| iPhone, iPad & Android native | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Web + thin native |
| Ad-free | ✓ Always | Free has ads | Free has ads | ✓ | Free has ads |
Competitor pricing and features as of 2026. Based on publicly available information.
The full curated library, search, favorites, and offline mode are free forever. Pro unlocks every smart feature and unlimited custom drinks. No annual lock-in trickery — pick the plan that matches how often you pour.
Browse, search, pour. No account required.
~58% off monthly. Best value for hosts and hobbyists.
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime.
Pay once, pour forever.
No "Pro Plus." No surprise upgrade tiers. The Annual plan is the anchor — the same price as a single bottle of decent gin, for a year of better drinks.
Pro users get 3 "Rounds" per year to share. Send one and your friend gets 30 days of Pro free — when they redeem, you get 30 days added to your subscription. Drinks are social. The app gets it.
Here's what we're building toward after launch. Every Pro feature is rolled into the same plan — no upsells, no surprise tiers.
Curated drops for Cinco de Mayo, summer, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's, St. Patrick's. New images, new recipes, new flair.
Pick a menu of 4-5 drinks for a party, set headcount, and we generate a precise shopping list — bottles, mixers, citrus, ice, garnish.
One toggle to hide all alcoholic recipes. For sober users, dry months, regional restrictions, or households with kids browsing.
Hands-busy mode. The app reads steps aloud, you say "next" — no sticky touchscreens at the home bar.
Send a custom recipe to a friend's app via deep link. They can pour it, modify it, save their own copy. Opt-in only.
How many drinks you've made, your most-poured, your spirit of choice, your seasonal swings. A year-end "wrapped" for hosts.
Pro customers get all of it. No "premium plus", no surprise gates.
TendaBar is in beta on iPhone, iPad, and Android. Join the testers and start pouring tonight.