Comparison

Peche | Barchive vs Specsmith

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

Head to head
About

Peche | Barchive

This app allows bartenders to build a digital portfolio of cocktail recipes, organize them into collections, and access a library of over 1000 drink specifications. Users can also get inspired by existing recipes and create their own variations.

Highlights
  • Personal recipe archive
  • Cocktail specifications
  • Recipe collections
  • Product knowledge
  • 1000+ drink specs
  • ReSpec feature for variations
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At Peche, we believe all bartenders deserve a place to grow creatively, to be inspired and to get recognition. We believe true hospitality requires bartending innovation and that innovation requires inspiration. With a professional bartender's portfolio on Peche, you can grow your personal recipe archive with specs, collections and product knowledge matching your own bar and guests. Be inspired with 1000+ specs available from the Peche Barchive project. Use our ReSpec feature and take any classic as the starting point for your own creativity. Download Peche today and show your creativity. Be inspired, grow your portfolio and ReSpec classics to show off your twists. Full Terms & Conditions: https://cremedepeche.com/termsandconditions

About

Specsmith

This app provides bar teams with instant access to cocktail specifications, prep recipes, and batching calculations. It's designed for quick, at-a-glance readability in a busy service environment, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Highlights
  • Instant cocktail specs
  • Linked prep recipes
  • Batching calculations
  • Service-ready recipe display
  • Multi-workspace support
  • In-app recipe editing
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Peche | Barchive4 screens
Specsmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Specsmith at none against Peche | Barchive's 1. Peche | Barchive's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. Peche | Barchive sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Specsmith asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Peche | Barchive ships an update every 10 days, Specsmith every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Peche | Barchive versus Specsmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeche | BarchiveSpecsmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB3 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPeche Hospitality LtdJeremy Oertel

Customer experience

Peche | Barchive

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Specsmith

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Peche | Barchive

Subscriptions1
  • Peche Pro Monthly$7.991 Month
None

Specsmith

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Peche | Barchive free?
Peche | Barchive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Specsmith free?
Specsmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Peche | Barchive or Specsmith have ads?
Neither Peche | Barchive nor Specsmith shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Peche | Barchive or Specsmith?
Peche | Barchive ships an update every 10 days, and Specsmith every 5 days. Most recently, Peche | Barchive was updated on October 7, 2026 and Specsmith on October 8, 2026.

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