# noflair - Home Bar & Cocktails — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of noflair by noflair, rated 4.80/5 from 142 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noflair-home-bar-and-cocktails/id1550567225/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noflair-home-bar-and-cocktails/id1550567225.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 128 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 4 ## Newest reviews (11 of 28) ### 5/5 — Best cocktail app *2025-01-10* This app is the best cocktail app for managing a broader home bar inventory. First, it is great at tracking what you have in your well. Second, if you have already purchased cocktail books, such as the Death and Co. books, you can link to the recipes in the book and find recipes that match your inventory, without having to blindly search through the (non) indexed books. Not all books are included yet (still waiting for Sother Teague’s books to be added), but hopefully more will be added over time. **Developer response:** Thanks! More books will be added on an ongoing basis! ### 5/5 — Excellent Across the Board *2025-01-07* Seriously impressed. The barcode system keeps ingredient lists clean and free of duplicates. UI is intuitive and offers a great deal of freedom. Most importantly, though, it seems to be powered by a community of knowledgeable enthusiasts, meaning there’s a lot of great content. All the features are unlocked for free, but I’ll happily support this kind of app. **Developer response:** Thanks for your support! It means a lot! ### 5/5 — Great App for the Home Bar *2025-01-06, version 1.9.0* Incredibly useful and well-designed app. The ability to add to the list of ingredients that I own by simply scanning the bar code in the label is a game-changer, as is the ability to import all of the drink recipes from cocktail books that I simply by sending in a screenshot of a single page. Drink recipes can be accessed by telling the app which ingredients that I would like to use. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Brilliant and so much potential *2025-01-01* Only about a week into trying out the app, but absolutely love it as an aspiring mixologist. Awesome features to keep your own collection organized, easily find new cocktail recipes, and learn from fellow enthusiasts while getting inspired to learn and do more. I see a ton of potential in this app and it looks like you also get more out of it the more you contribute which makes it exciting and truly “live” opportunity that will only get better and better. **Developer response:** Thanks for your awesome review and support! 🍸 ### 5/5 — The best cocktail app *2024-12-22* Title pretty much sums it up. I’ve tried a dozen other apps and kept coming back to this one. The UI is nice, the features are intuitive (like just scanning a bottle’s barcode to add it to your inventory), and there’s a great community of people who are active in the community chat and always sharing new drinks. That’s something that no other app had—community sourced recipes; really keeps it interesting and fresh. Also, the developer is a part of the app’s community and is constantly listening to user feedback, making improvements, and adding new features. 10/10 **Developer response:** Thanks for being part of that community and also for this review 🙏 ### 5/5 — My fav bartending app *2024-12-21, version 1.8.1* Barcode scanning to add bottles, chat area, and new drinks added daily. Love it. ### 5/5 — A must-have for any home bartender *2024-12-21* Easily the best bar app out there. You can easily add all of your own bottles by just scanning the barcode and the specificity for cocktails is unbeatable; find a cocktail by ingredient, method, product, etc. Plus there’s a strong community element to help source ideas and feedback. Revolutionized my whole cocktail game! **Developer response:** Thank you very much! 🙏 ### 5/5 — This app is what I use! I’s great! *2024-12-21* This app has so much going for it! Add bottles to your inventory by scanning the barcode and if it’s not there, a bottle is easy to add. This app has an extensive ingredients database and one can easily add custom mixtures and then include these custom ingredients into your drink specs. Easy to add new specs. Search for drinks based on various ingredients. Bookmark those you want to try. A few books are in the app. A chat to share drinks and bounce ideas off other users. I could go on and one but what are you waiting for? **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind review! 🙏 ### 5/5 — Best App for the Mixology Enthusiast *2024-09-28* Hands down the best app for anybody interested in making cocktails. Love the ability to unlock recipes from books that I already own, the ability to add what items I have in stock and being able to add/scale my own recipes. **Developer response:** Thank you 🙏 ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-05-18* This is the best app I’ve found so far for tracking my bar and what drinks can be made. **Developer response:** Thank you 🙏 ### 5/5 — The bar app I’ve been looking for *2024-04-28* I’d been looking for something that could store my specs and compare them to what bottles I had. Noflair does that while tracking how much are in those bottles and allows me too access the specs in the cocktail books I own. It really is the full package in terms of what I’d actually want to do with it. There is a public chat feed accessible but without any kind of rooms or friends lists it seems rather pointless unless you want some quick responses or recommendations from… someone. And an option to input how much you paid for a bottle but the feature only supports USD, EUR & Brit Pound So far I’m impressed and hope to see it continue to grow **Developer response:** We just added Australian Dollar as a currency. Thank you for the kind review! 🙏 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Adding inventory is cumbersome *2026-04-12* First thing I tried to do was just add a generic bourbon, since I have several dozen bottles of bourbon and would prefer to pick which one for a recipe depending on what I’m feeling that day. I don’t see a way to do that. It looks like I have to scan or enter a specific barcode for every bottle of spirits and liqueurs. No way am I going to do that. I’m deleting the app. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — Does not work and very cumbersome to use. *2026-01-14* I couldn’t even add the bottles I had in my bar. It won’t recognize barcodes and then I have to add a picture? Why is there no option to add bottles manually without a picture? Even when I add a picture I have to type in the name of the bottle. I don’t understand what was the point of the picture. So why not just allow adding bottles without the picture? 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 **Developer response:** 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) ### 1/5 — Internet required?? *2025-07-29* Noticed some lag issues when searching or loading „inventory,“ and then I noticed it wouldn’t even work without internet, hence the loading lag times. Why in the world should it require an internet connection?? Sure there are nice features but you should be able to also use this as a bare bones inventory and recipe repository without having to send data back and forth. Honestly why??? Why is internet required?? **Developer response:** Hi DarkWhale1, noflair is a collaborative app that greatly benefits from our users’ contributions to the database. Therefore we store all data on a server rather than on the phone. Every public recipe added to the database is also immediately available to everybody and we don't have to make you update the app just to get those recipes, like other apps do. You'll also benefit from other users' contributions to our product database immediately. In our opinion that outweighs the downside of requiring an internet connection. Best, Oliver ### 1/5 — No Picture *2025-02-12, version 1.9.0* Should be allowed to add ingredients without taking a picture ### 2/5 — Stuck at the beginning *2024-06-02* Love how the first time you open the app gives you a list of ingredients you have on hand. Pretty standard for a cocktail app. But then to add the different kinds of liquor I can only scan my bottles. No way I’m emptying all my cabinets and doing that. And since that appears to be the only way to make this app work, I guess it’s not for me. **Developer response:** Hi Bnoof, thanks for trying our less than ideal onboarding and sorry for the confusion! Even if we don't advertise it, there is another way to add your ingredients: Use the search tab to find specific bottles/products and add it via the detail page (we should probably add a button or swipe gesture to make it possible right from the list...) There are a few reasons why we want to get users to scan their bottles though. a) It's very fast if the bottles are easily reachable (unfortunately not the case in your situation) b) The process includes taking a picture of the bottle and assigning the barcode if we don't have that in our database yet (which will improve the app for everyone) If you're ready to give it another try, also keep in mind that we have a chat in the app where you can quickly ask for support. I'm usually quick to respond if I don't sleep, but even in that case there's a lot of US users who are happy to help out. Again, thanks for trying the app and giving feedback! ### 4/5 — Best I found, but could use improvement *2026-03-06* This is the best app I have found for keeping a catalog of what I have in my bar. But there are a couple frustrations… 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. **Developer response:** 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) ### 4/5 — Deleted my info *2025-06-08* Scanned all my bottles in . Now its saying i need an account when i try without none of my bottles are here. Im sure its a good app but im not doing that again. Not every app needs an account. Didnt sqitch devices or anything. Lame….. **Developer response:** This sounds really frustrating…sorry about that. I don’t know what happened in your case but I would be happy to investigate further. Feel free to write me an email at contact@noflair.app. I’m pretty sure we can recover your account together. ### 5/5 — Best bar app *2026-02-05* Amazing! Best bar app I have ever used and not even close. **Developer response:** Thank you very much :) ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-01-16* I've tried them all and this is the best by far! **Developer response:** That was our experience as well! 🙃 ### 5/5 — Great app and collection of recipes *2025-10-16* The more people who join and submit recipes, the stronger this app will become. Really enjoying it already! ## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Simply Fantastic *2025-08-03, version 1.9.2* Lovely app for organizing and finding fun cocktails, well worth using! ### 5/5 — Wonderful App! *2025-07-07* Loving this app! Being able to scan barcodes of my bottles made it so quick and easy to import my collection. I’m having a lot of fun looking through recipes to see what I can make. I’m excited to see how the app evolves as more recipes are added! **Developer response:** Glad you find the app useful 🙂 ### 5/5 — Great App! *2025-02-07, version 1.9.0* I've tried a lot of cocktail apps, this is the best by far. ### 5/5 — Great App! *2025-01-27* I've tried a lot of cocktail app, this is the best by far. ### 5/5 — Upped my game! *2025-01-26* Welp, this app has really exposed me to some amazing cocktails, and has helped me keep my bar and shopping list in order. I can’t recommend this app more. **Developer response:** That's cool to hear! Thank you very much! ### 5/5 — Serious promise *2025-01-26* My favorite home bar application. The integration of loading cocktail books is top notch as is the ability to create/save recipes in the app. Additionally the social aspect is fun too! Recommend. **Developer response:** Thanks a bunch! ### 5/5 — Amazing community *2025-01-22* Check out the chat tab! **Developer response:** Thanks for being part of it! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*