Adding inventory is cumbersome
Response from developer
Hi, it’s right on the My Bar tab. Tap the Add button and select Add Generic Ingredients and type „Bourbon“. You can also just scan one of your Bourbon bottles barcodes and you get pretty much the same experience. You can also use the Search tab instead and add from a detail screen. Many ways to get there. But it seems we need to work on our onboarding if that was not clear to you. Sorry you had a bad experience.
Best I found, but could use improvement
1 if you have a bottle that they don’t already have in their database it forces you to scroll through everything they do have, before you are allowed to manually enter your bottle. If you have a unique brand of vodka, your thumb will fall off before you get to the end of the list, and it takes time to load.
2 I wish there were better filtering and sorting options on the cocktail recipes. It allows us users to add their own cocktail recipes, which is fun. But as a result, there’s a lot of “five star“ recipes that were entered by one person who reviewed their own recipe. Also a lot of duplication of recipes where people are just recommending different brands of spirits for the same cocktail recipe. You can limit the recipes to a single source, but even that list is endless. Would like the ability to limit the search to classic cocktails, or maybe cocktails with over 100 reviews.
Response from developer
Thanks for taking the time to write a detailed review! 🙂 I'll answer one by one. 1. If the app couldn't find a match for the bottle via the barcode, we recommend to first use the search to see if we have the product in the database to prevent duplicates. We don't force you to, though. There's a + button in the top right that reminds you to use the search first, which is sensible in my opinion, but you can ignore that if you want to. Or maybe we are talking about a different flow? Not sure, maybe you can reach out via email or the in app chat so we can clarify and maybe we can find a solution that would work better. 2. I agree that "1 total review of 5 stars" should not equal "Top 10 drink of all time". There's already a task to split this list into multiple ones like "Fresh Favorites" and "All Time Bests" and maybe something to highlight original user drinks that should be "peer reviewed". Should be coming in the next couple of weeks. We are not actually curating content that much. So many other apps do that already. We like to stay true to the source if we provide an index for books and we trust our community to share recipes that they think would make a great addition to the database. We have some soft rules, but that's about it. So for example if we provide an index of a book, we make sure that every recipe is in there, including variants. That leads to 23 different recipes in Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails alone. Staying true to the source in this case is our priority. In other cases users add drinks that have been added to the database before. While it would be great if users would always use the search beforehand to check if the recipe is already in the database, I think this would be preventable by detecting this before the drink gets created and we could alert the user. But yeah, I understand that this is annoying in search results. We are thinking about ways to bundle up variants of the same drink, so they don't come up multiple times in search results and provide a sensible "cover" variant. This is not an easy task from a design perspective though and so far we haven't found a way to introduce this while not making the app more complex and still let users discover variants in an easy way. Hopefully we can solve this in the coming months. If you have more feedback, let us know, we need it! Cheers, Olli (retendo in the app)
Best bar app
Response from developer
Thank you very much :)
Great App
Response from developer
That was our experience as well! 🙃
Does not work and very cumbersome to use.
Why do I have to enter the size of the bottle? Which also does not work - I can’t get the finish button to do anything. The app just hangs. How does it matter if I have a 300 ml bottle or a 1 l bottle?
I should be able to type and add bottles instead of this highly complex process
Response from developer
Hi baishyax, if you don’t want to use the barcode scanner, you can just use the search tab to find your bottles. If you want it even simpler and skip the products altogether, you can even just fill your inventory with generic ingredients. As we are just two people working on the app in our spare time we have to rely on users to add to the database as well. A barcode is always bound to a specificly sized product (700ml bottle of Aperol for example). So that’s why we ask for information like that if we don’t have the product or barcode in our database yet. As for what this enables feature-wise: Some users like to keep track of how much they have in their inventory, including fill levels. Regarding the app hang on the finish button: Could you describe the issue a bit more via email? I would like to try to reproduce this. Our email address is contact@noflair.app. Cheers, Olli (retendo in the app)
