Top500Bars vs Proof & Ash

Top 500 is an app dedicated to the global ranking Top 500 Bars. It means the app finds the closest cocktails bar, hotels bar, restaurants bar which are part of the Top 500 ranking all around the world, in a few seconds, wherever you are. Thanks to the localization you'll be able to see all the Top 500 Bars around you on a map or the distance to the closest one via another type of view. Every year, with the release of a new ranking, all the information are updated. You have access to the full ranking and it is accessible as well city by city to have an overview and help you to prepare your visit. Soon new possibilities, like being aware of events in these bars if you are in the same city. Thanks to a form, you can suggest venues that should be checked to be part of this ranking. If you are an owner of a venue list, contact us via the same form if you want to add more information about your venue. This is not a guide about all the venues in the world, but the most influential of them, selected thanks to influencers, journalists, industry specialists, and customers... because every opinion counts. Enjoy

Proof & Ash is a private shelf for your bourbon and a humidor for your cigars, on your iPhone. Point the camera at a bottle or a band. The label is read on your phone and matched to a shared catalog of around a thousand bourbons and cigars, with proof, age, style and the flavors reviewers usually find. If it isn't in the catalog, add it by hand and it lives on your shelf like any other bottle. Log the pour or the smoke in a few taps: a verdict, the flavors you actually got, a note, a photo if you like. Over time the app builds a picture of your palate from your own history, not from scores. TONIGHT One screen that answers the question you have at nine o'clock: what should I open? It leans on what you've loved, what you haven't touched in a while, and what's already open. SHELF AND HUMIDOR Every bottle with how much is left, when you last poured it, and what it cost. Every cigar with a count. Chips for wheated, high rye, barrel proof, bottled-in-bond and the rest, drawn from the catalog's facts rather than guessed from the name. WRITTEN FOR YOU, ON YOUR PHONE On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the app writes a short note on each bottle and an honest read of your whole shelf, using only your own history. Nothing is sent anywhere. Phones without Apple Intelligence show the facts instead. CAPTIONS When a pour deserves a post, the app drafts a caption from the facts of that pour. Share it wherever you like; the app never posts on its own. YOURS, FULL STOP Your bottles, cigars, notes and photos are stored on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud, where they follow you to your next phone. There is no account to create, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. The developer cannot see your shelf. FREE, AND RESERVE Free is a real app: up to 15 bottles on the shelf, 10 kinds of cigar in the humidor, 5 label scans, plus manual add, catalog search, pours and smokes, Tonight, and export. Reserve lifts the caps, makes scanning unlimited, and adds Insights, the written note on each bottle and cigar, and drafted captions. Reserve is $3.99 a month, $24.99 a year with a 7-day free trial, or $59.99 once. Whatever you add is yours on any plan or none: nothing is ever hidden or deleted, and Export builds a zip of everything at any time. Proof & Ash is a record-keeping tool for adults of legal age to buy alcohol and tobacco where they live.