All-in-one solution for managing your cocktail bar

Impress your dinner guests and unleash your inner bartender! Bar Assistant is a new home for all your favorite cocktail recipes and drinks.

Main features

Recipes

Create and manage your archive of cocktail recipes. You can add personal notes, favorites, rate, and add images.

  • Includes over 500 cocktail recipes with detailed information.
  • Manage automatic ingredient substitutes, multi-part ingredients, optional ingredients and more.
  • Share recipes in a few clicks.
  • Automatic cocktail price estimation based on ingredients.
  • Scale recipes by volume or quantity.

Ingredients

Create and manage your ingredient inventory. Track prices, taxonomies, units and more.

  • Includes over 250 detailed base ingredients with categories.
  • Manage ingredient prices and price categories.
  • Organize ingredients into complex taxonomies via our hierarchical categories.

Data management

Import and export data in various supported formats. You are never locked in our application ecosystem.

  • You can print, export, and generate recipe images in a few clicks.
  • Import recipes from other websites, and Bar Assistant will do its best to extract and match data.
  • Export recipes in various formats (JSON, YAML, Markdown, etc).
  • Bulk import ingredients via CSV.

Organize & Plan

Group recipes into custom collections. Find new recipes with quick and powerful filtering via tags, glasses, ratings, ingredients and more.

  • Organizing an event? Use our quantity planner to calculate the required ingredients based on the number of cocktails.
  • Manage a shopping list with automatic preview of prices.
  • Get personal recommendations based on your preferences and available ingredients.

Menu

Easily create and manage your custom cocktail menu with a custom URL, cocktail images, ingredients and prices.

  • Manage basic menu with custom prices and currencies.
  • Use automatic pour cost calculations to generate menu prices.
  • Manage both cocktail recipes and ingredients.
  • Export menu items as CSV.
  • One-click publish to a public URL.

Calculators

Create and share completely customizable calculators for your liqueurs, juices and syrups.

  • Share your custom calculators with friends and colleagues.
  • Easy-to-use UI with real-time calculations.

Even more features

Bars

Manage multiple bar instances from one application. Each bar has its own recipes, ingredients, settings, shelf and users.

Shelf

Shelf is your personal dashboard. Here you can see all the recipes you can make with ingredients that you have, see your shopping list, check your bar stats and more.

API

Are you an engineer? With Bar Assistant, you have access to powerful APIs to integrate with your own applications and services.

SSO

Single sign-on support with multiple providers. No need to remember another password.

Open Source

Complete code for API and web client is open source and MIT licensed. You can self-host your own instance and have full control of your own infrastructure.

Made in the EU

Proudly made in Croatia. We collect the minimum required data needed to run and the service is GDPR compliant.

Choose a plan

Mixologist

25

Per month, billed monthly

For enthusiasts who want to create a community around their bar. Enables multi-user, multi-bar management.

  • Create and manage up to 10 bars
  • Add unlimited cocktail recipes
  • Invite users to your bar
  • Share your recipes with bar members
  • Manage user roles
  • Enable sharing recipes via public links
  • Add more images to recipes
  • Enable image editing
  • Add unlimited cocktail collections
  • No rate limits for import actions
  • Create personal access API tokens
  • Automatic cocktail price menu suggestions
  • Bulk ingredient import
  • Unlimited price categories
  • Save 15% when paying annually

Bartender

Free

This one is on the house

For at-home bartenders who just want to impress their guests. Single user, single bar.

  • No credit card required
  • Manage a single basic bar
  • Add up to 750 cocktail recipes
  • Search and filter recipes and ingredients
  • Manage up to 3 personal cocktail collections
  • Manage tags, categories, glasses and more
  • Continuous backups and upgrades
  • Upgrade to "Mixologist" at any time

Self host

For server administrators and self-hosting enthusiasts who want full control over their data and infrastructure.

  • Your hardware
  • Your deployments
  • Your data
  • Free forever
  • MIT License
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Frequently Asked Questions

What payment methods do you accept?

Our payments are processed by Paddle. They support all major cards, PayPal, Google Pay and others.

Can I use Bar Assistant for free?

Some features that are only available to customers with the "Mixologist" plan, but most of the features of the Bar Assistant that you need for a personal use are free.

Do you offer a trial for a "Mixologist" plan?

Currently, we do not offer a trial for the "Mixologist" plan. If you have any questions about specific features please send us an email.

How do I cancel my subscription?

When you sign in to your account, go to your profile and under the "Billing" tab you will have the option to manage your plan. Once you cancel your plan, you will have access to your current plan until the end of your billing period.

What happens if I cancel my plan?

You will be downgraded to a free account. You will have an option to keep one bar activated, while the rest will be deactivated. All data for deactivated bars will be retained for one year. If you reactivate the "Mixologist" plan you can continue where you left off.

What advantages do I get compared to other recipe apps?

Bar Assistant is built from the ground up with cocktail recipes in mind. It offers powerful features aimed specifically at bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts. This includes ingredients as a first-class citizen, bar management, shelf management, cocktail pricing and more.