# Five O'Clock Somewhere — Celebrate happy hour any time!

> Celebrate happy hour any time! (iPhone/iPad app by Jeffrey Milner.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/five-oclock-somewhere/id6752682916 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jeffrey Milner](https://appshunter.io/developer/1820810321)
- Category: Food & Drink
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 18.6 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-01-15
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/five-oclock-somewhere/id6752682916/reviews.md

## What is Five O'Clock Somewhere?

Five O'Clock Somewhere celebrates the universal tradition of the happy hour by connecting you with locations around the world where it's currently 5:00 PM. Discover local cocktail recipes, learn about different cultures, and enjoy a virtual journey around the globe, one drink at a time.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| English (Canada) | $1.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2026-08-21

What's New
- Location History: revisit every place your happy hour journey has taken you, now in Settings → Archives.
- See the price up front: the Pro upgrade screen now shows the one-time purchase price before you buy.
- Recipe multiplier lets you set the number of servings you'd like to prepare.

Improvements
- Faster app launch — recipes now load in the background.
- Shared recipe images are sharper and match your light or dark theme.
- "It's five o'clock somewhere else" alerts now arrive right on time for every time zone — including places like India and Newfoundland with half-hour offsets.
- Refreshed share buttons with a cleaner, more native look.
- If a share or export can't be prepared, the app now tells you instead of silently doing nothing.

Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rare issue where a Pro purchase could temporarily appear lost after reinstalling or switching devices.
- Fixed a layout glitch with the local time display on the main screen.
- Daily free refresh counts are now tracked accurately, including past midnight.
- Haptic feedback now fires consistently when a new location loads.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-14

Bug Fixes
1. Auto-refresh silently died after the first hour (LocationTimeManager.swift) The hourly auto-refresh guarded against duplicate triggers using lastReloadMinute, but that variable could only ever hold the value 0 (it's only set inside a branch already gated by minutes == 0). So the very first time the app auto-selected a new "5 o'clock" location, lastReloadMinute got set to 0 — and every subsequent hour, 0 != 0 was false, permanently blocking any further auto-refresh for the lifetime of the app session. Fixed by tracking an absolute elapsed-minute counter instead of the local minute value, so it correctly distinguishes each new hour. 
2. Recipe amounts of ⅓ and ⅔ never displayed as fractions (RecipeHelpers.swift) asFractionString() compared computed fractional parts against a lookup table using a tight 1e-6 tolerance, but the table stored truncated approximations (0.333, 0.667) instead of the true values. A real 1/3 (0.333333...) is off by about 0.00033 — far outside the tolerance — so thirds always fell through to decimal display ("1.33" instead of "1 ⅓"), which matters for a cocktail recipe app. Fixed by using exact 1.0/3.0 and 2.0/3.0 in the table.

Also fixed while cleaning up SwiftLint errors: 
- Renamed several unclear single-letter loop variables (i, n, y, s) to descriptive names in ShareSheet.swift and RecipeHelpers.swift. 
- Wrapped an overlong line in AboutView.swift. 
- Simplified a redundant for/if into for...where in RecipeHelpers.swift. 
- Added scoped identifier_name suppressions for the intentional snake_case fields in Recipe.swift and the Mercury* export adapter types in ShareSheet.swift — these match external JSON/API keys (recipe_Name, oven_fan, etc.) exactly, so renaming would require touching ~17 call sites for no benefit and risked breaking the Mercury export format compatibility.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-04-20

1.1.0: Fixed a problem with in-app purchases.
Now works on iOS version 18.6

### 1.0.9 — 2026-04-17

What’s New in version 1.0.9:
• Now supports iPadOS
• Now supports iOS 18.6+ users
• Added auto-refresh location setting which if enabled loads new locations automatically 

Bug Fixes
• Various bug fixes and updating from old style code.

### 1.0.8 — 2026-02-25

Version 1.0.8
New Features
• Added recipe count to All Recipes and Favourites view

Improvements
• Now using Swift 6.0
• Massive modernization and restructuring of the way the app accesses internal data
• Modernized by replacing instances of foregroundColor() with foregroundStyle()
• Many other improvements to the codebase
• Added new locations and recipes for: Fairbanks, Juneau, Riyadh, Hanoi, Jakarta, Bengaluru, Colombo, and Nuku'alofa.
• Additional recipes: Guarapita, Bull de cervezas, Hurricane, Bronx, Mint Julep, Ward Eight, and many others (too many to mention here). 
• A total of 275 recipes now populate the app.
• Improved clarity in privacy policy and FAQ

Bug Fixes
• Additional minor bug fixes such as matching the sticker versioning with the main app.
• Removed deinit to solve the actor isolation access error.

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## More apps by Jeffrey Milner

- [Mercury](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mercury/id6747322854)

All apps by Jeffrey Milner: https://appshunter.io/developer/1820810321

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