DreamCocktail vs Modern Classics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DreamCocktail
Discover and create a wide variety of cocktail recipes with detailed instructions and images. Features include advanced search options, personalized favorites, and the ability to share your own creations.
- A-Z database search
- Keyword search
- Advanced image search
- Favorite cocktails
- Detailed recipe display
- Today's lucky cocktail
- My recipes creation
- Recipe sharing
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Cocktail recipe application "DreamCocktail" It is all right if there is even this in order to look sharp at the bar! You can enjoy it just to look brilliant cocktail recipes of 360 kinds. "Today's lucky cocktail" Lucky cocktail of today will appear when you shake the iPhone like a shaker. And parties drinking, use of scene is different. In addition, the new recipe has been registered from everyone of daily users to Dream Cocktail Server. Please enrich the database to download the favorite cocktail to My recipe. Function *A - Z DATABASE SEARCH - Look at the image, name, strength and taste and quickly scroll through until you find your tipple. *KEYWORD SEARCH - Find your desired drink by typing part of the name or the name in full. *ADVANCED IMAGE SEARCH - Search by alcohol base, colour or style (tropical, sexy, dandy, refreshing etc.). *FAVORITE - You can put together the only favorite cocktail. *DISPLAY - Click on the desired cocktail to display, not only the ingredients, but also the preparation method, base alcohol, strength, style, and image. *TODAY'S LUCKY COCKTAIL - Shake the mixer like a bartender and enjoy the lucky cocktail of the day. *MY RECIPES - I can register the original recipe. Photograph, episodes cocktails I can register of course. *RECIPE SHARE - It allows you to publish my recipes. Other users can download the data was published. *From the settlings measurements can be shown in both "ml" or "oz".
Modern Classics
Explore over 110 meticulously researched cocktail recipes from the modern renaissance. Discover foundational drinks, popular choices, and critical favorites, with detailed ingredient definitions and search filters.
- Over 110 researched cocktail recipes
- Search by spirit, type, and date
- Filter recipes by multiple criteria
- Create custom lists and flag favorites
- Annotate recipes with notes and ratings
- Ingredient inventory matching
- Cross-device sync
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Modern Classics is the first independent, critical assessment of the original drinks of these recent decades, compiled by New York Times drinks writer, journalist and author Robert Simonson. This brutally honest collection identifies, justifies and presents the authoritative, verified and properly attributed recipes in four categories: the modern classics, the objectively popular drinks that might yet achieve that status, certain drinks identified as critical favorites worthy of more attention, plus a collection of foundational recipes from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s that helped set the stage for today’s cocktail renaissance. - over 110 meticulously researched recipes—full list of included recipes available on web site—to be gradually expanded in the future, as appropriate - The best of the best - Search recipes by base spirit, cocktail-type and date of creation - Check off the ingredients you’ve got and this app will show you which drinks you can make - Filter the recipes on multiple criteria with just a few taps - Flag recipes and tag favorites; create custom lists of recipes - Annotate recipes with comments and cumulative likes and dislikes and build up a chronological history of your explorations - Ingredient definitions included - Sync your ingredient inventory, favorites and flagged, custom lists and journal entries across our entire suite of apps and over as many iOS devices as you like, using our free sync service - Universal app, works nearly identically on both platforms Please enjoy responsibly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: DreamCocktail at $2.99 against Modern Classics's $9.99. DreamCocktail also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1). Modern Classics's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 48%) and ratings volume (21 vs 4). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
DreamCocktail costs $2.99 and Modern Classics $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DreamCocktail holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Modern Classics has 21 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of DreamCocktail's written reviews are positive against 67% of Modern Classics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DreamCocktail ships an update every 5 months, Modern Classics every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | DreamCocktail | Modern Classics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | 4.1 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 47.8% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #138 | #31 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dreamonline,inc. | Doudoroff LLC |
Customer experience
DreamCocktail
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In-app purchases
DreamCocktail
No in-app purchases
Modern Classics
No in-app purchases
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