BarSpoon vs Specsmith

We offer step by step instructions and exact measurements in order to create your favorite cocktails. The app helps you pick the right glassware and garnish as well as providing the approximate prep time. Also, there is a fun fact on the history of the cocktail. Explore the different categories from classics and tropicals (tiki) to coffee drinks and famous cocktails that have appeared in film. You can also search by the different eras, taste buds (sweet, bitter, sour, savory, smoky and spicy) and base spirits. One of the standout features of BarSpoon is its ability to empower users to select ingredients on hand, enabling them to create both new drinks and old favorites. Simply choose from the four categories - spirits, liqueurs/bitters, wines/vermouths, and mixers, then combine ingredients within them to discover your personalized cocktail recipe. Mark cocktails recipes you love as favorites to find them easily next time you open the app. Learn in detailed fashion about all the bar tools and glassware needed as well as exclusive behind the scenes access to bar lingo, shortcuts and tips from real life bartenders. The “liqueurs lexicon” provides flavor profiles and a history of each liqueur. You don’t live in the US? No problem! BarSpoon easily converts recipe measurements to ML so you can make your favorite drinks anywhere in the world! By unlocking “Premium Cocktails” you will gain access to a lifetime of all the great recipes BarSpoon has to offer. We continue to add new recipes on a regular bases in order to keep up with new trends. • BarSpoon was named by Forbes.com #5 in “8 Drink Apps to Help You Pour The Perfect Cocktail”. (March 2024)

Specsmith is the bar team's spec book, on the floor. Every cocktail program lives in a binder, a shared doc, or someone's memory — and none of those survive a Friday night. Specsmith puts the whole thing in your pocket: the spec, the prep recipe behind it, and the batch numbers, one tap from each other. BUILT FOR SERVICE Pull up a recipe mid-ticket. Measures sit in their own column so you can read a spec at arm's length across a crowded bar, not squint at a paragraph. No loading spinner between you and the drink. PREP THAT CONNECTS An ingredient that is made in house links to the prep recipe that makes it. Tap the honey ginger syrup on a Penicillin and you get the syrup, not a search box. The prep list is there on its own too, alphabetised, for the person doing Tuesday's mise. BATCHING WITHOUT ARITHMETIC Pick a menu, pick a multiplier, get the numbers. The maths happens on the server and matches what the desktop workspace shows for the same menu, so the bar and the office are never quoting different volumes at each other. THE WHOLE WORKSPACE Your menus and your recipes, including recipes that are not on a menu right now. Belong to more than one bar? Switch between workspaces from the menu list; the app remembers which one you had open. EDIT WHERE YOU STAND Fix a spec at the station where you noticed it was wrong. Change measures, methods, glassware and garnish, and photograph the drink with the camera. If a colleague edited the same recipe first, Specsmith says so instead of quietly overwriting their work. MADE FOR A BAR, NOT A PHONE DEMO Big type, one thumb, and a spec you can read without leaning in. No adverts, and no tracking across other apps. Specsmith for iOS is the companion to the Specsmith workspace on the web, where menus get built, costed and printed. Sign in with the account you already have, or create one with email and password, Apple, or Google. Most tools for building menus, managing recipes, and creating prep guides are on the web at getspecsmith.com.