Comparison

Portillo's vs Batch Cocktail Calculator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Portillo's

Discover and order iconic Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, and other signature dishes. Customize your meals, save favorites, and enjoy convenient pickup or delivery options. Plus, get a free slice of chocolate cake on your birthday.

Highlights
  • Order signature Chicago-style dishes
  • Customize orders precisely
  • Save favorite orders and locations
  • Track delivery in real-time
  • Multiple pickup options
  • Free birthday cake reward
Features
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Portillo’s We're known for our famous Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, chopped salad, cheese fries, homemade chocolate cake, and chocolate cake shake. Our Italian beef is slow-roasted for four hours, thinly sliced, and served on freshly baked French bread. Then, it's dipped in hot gravy made with our homemade blend of seasonings that we've been perfecting for 50 years. Haven't tried Portillo's yet? Order an Italian beef, dipped with sweet or hot peppers (add mozzarella if you're feeling cheesy), or a Chicago-style hot dog "dragged through the garden" and you'll see what all the hype is about. Enjoy these features of the Portillo’s app: Free Cake on Your Birthday: Join Portillo’s Perks and get a free slice of our famous Chocolate Cake on your birthday, half birthday, and sign up anniversary! Delivery: Order delivery from your nearby Portillo’s. Track your order. Receive status updates about your order in real time. Easy Ways to Pick Up: There are three easy ways: Inside the Restaurant, Delivery, or Curbside pickup at participating locations. Save your Favorites: Easily save your favorite order and location so you can order quickly and come back again and again. Favorite Portillo’s locations that you order from the most. Customize your Order: Want your Italian beef sandwich dry, cut in half, with hot peppers and mozzarella cheese and gravy on the side? No problem! Simply customize your Portillo’s favorites to get exactly what you want.

About

Batch Cocktail Calculator

Effortlessly scale any cocktail recipe for a party. Calculate exact ingredient amounts, dilution water, final ABV, and generate a shopping list. Includes classic recipes and works offline.

Highlights
  • Scale recipes for any number of servings
  • Calculate precise ingredient amounts
  • Add dilution water for stirred/shaken drinks
  • Determine final batch ABV and serving strength
  • Generate automated shopping lists
  • Save and reopen custom batches
  • Includes 10 classic cocktail recipes
Features
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A cocktail calculator for batching: no arithmetic. Enter a single-drink recipe, say how many you are pouring, and get the exact amount of every bottle, the dilution water to add up front, the strength it lands at, and a shopping list. HOW IT WORKS - Build a recipe, or load a classic. Add ingredients with an amount (ounces in quarter steps, millilitres, or dashes for bitters) and a type, and Batch Pour fills in a sensible ABV for common spirits, liqueurs, vermouths, and mixers — all editable. - Say how big. Scale to a number of servings, or pick the vessel you're filling: a 1 L or 1.75 L bottle, a 2 quart pitcher, a 3 L dispenser, a 5 L punch bowl, or a custom size. Batch Pour tells you how many servings fit and whether your batch fits the vessel. - Get the pour. Every ingredient is listed in millilitres and ounces (and cups for big batches), with a running total. DILUTION DONE RIGHT A stirred or shaken drink picks up water from melting ice. When you batch ahead, that water has to go in up front. A simple slider adds it for you — stirred-style around 20%, shaken around 25%, over ice around 10%, or none at all — and shows the water as its own pour line. KNOW THE STRENGTH Batch Pour computes the finished batch's ABV from the volume and proof of everything in it, then tells you how strong each serving actually is in US standard drinks. If a serving crosses two standard drinks, it flags a strong batch so you can pour smaller or dilute more. A plain-language freezer note tells you whether a batch will stay pourable or freeze solid. SHOPPING LIST See exactly how many bottles of each spirit to buy — at 750 ml, 1 L, or 1.75 L — rounded up, with the leftover shown. Share the whole pour list and shopping list as text straight from the app. SAVE YOUR PARTIES Keep any batch — recipe, scale, and dilution — and reopen it next time. Everything is stored on your device. TEN CLASSICS BUILT IN Negroni, Daiquiri, Margarita, Old Fashioned, Manhattan, Whiskey Sour, Gimlet, Cosmopolitan, Paloma, and Aperol Spritz — each a canonical starting spec you can adjust to taste. HONEST AND PRIVATE One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases. Works fully offline and makes no network requests — no account, no tracking, nothing leaves your device. Batch Pour is a planning tool: it does the arithmetic of what you pour, not a measurement of the finished drink. Always taste as you go, and please serve and enjoy responsibly.

Screenshots

Portillo's4 screens
Batch Cocktail Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Portillo's at Free against Batch Cocktail Calculator's $2.99. Portillo's also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 1) and chart position (#172 vs unranked). Batch Cocktail Calculator's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Portillo's is free to download; Batch Cocktail Calculator costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Batch Cocktail Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Portillo's has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Portillo's ships an update every 2 months, Batch Cocktail Calculator fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Portillo's versus Batch Cocktail Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPortillo'sBatch Cocktail Calculator
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating1.9 (1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#172 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB3 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPortillo's Hot Dogs, LLCNOSHU, llc

Customer experience

Portillo's

All ratings524 ratings
Positive24.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative73.3%
Written reviews452 reviews
Positive8.8%
Neutral1.3%
Negative89.8%

Batch Cocktail Calculator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Portillo's

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App only works in North America
  • Can't create an account
  • Endless login loop
  • Ordering process not working
  • Rewards not syncing properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize orders
  • Separate pickup line for online orders
  • Integration with Apple Pay
  • Ability to check rewards balance
  • More menu options in the app

Batch Cocktail Calculator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Portillo's

No in-app purchases

None

Batch Cocktail Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Portillo's free?
Portillo's is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Batch Cocktail Calculator free?
Batch Cocktail Calculator costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Portillo's or Batch Cocktail Calculator?
Batch Cocktail Calculator is rated higher. Portillo's averages 1.9 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Batch Cocktail Calculator averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Portillo's or Batch Cocktail Calculator have ads?
Neither Portillo's nor Batch Cocktail Calculator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Portillo's or Batch Cocktail Calculator?
Portillo's ships an update every 2 months, and Batch Cocktail Calculator fortnightly. Most recently, Portillo's was updated on November 6, 2026 and Batch Cocktail Calculator on October 31, 2026.

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