The Bartender App vs Poursmith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Bartender App
Discover cocktails you can make with ingredients you already have at home. This app provides step-by-step recipes to help you create delicious drinks.
- Ingredient-based cocktail discovery
- Step-by-step recipe guides
- Home bar inventory management
- Discover new drink recipes
- Easy-to-follow instructions
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Add your home bar ingredients to discover cocktails you can make right now, with simple step-by-step recipes!
Poursmith
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Poursmith is the bartender's brain for your home bar. Tell it what bottles you own and it instantly shows what you can pour tonight — then helps you build a menu worth serving. BROWSE THE CLASSICS 80 cocktails, filtered by spirit, flavor, and strength — each with a clear build, method, and taste profile. MY BAR Add the bottles on your shelf and Poursmith tells you exactly what you can make, plus the one bottle that would unlock the most new drinks. MY MENU Curate a menu for guests, grouped by flavor or spirit, with taste scores on every drink. Share it as a QR code or PDF — guests just scan to browse on their own phone. No app required for them. TASTE MATCHING Tune your palate — sweet, sour, bitter, boozy, fruity — and Poursmith highlights the drinks made for you. CREATE Invent a drink from what you have, riff on a classic, or recreate a cocktail from a photo. Your bar, recipes, and preferences stay on your device. Poursmith is for adults of legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly.
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Verdict
The Bartender App and Poursmith are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Bartender App ships an update every 5 days, Poursmith every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Bartender App | Poursmith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 139 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Keaton MacLeod | Micah Faas |
In-app purchases
The Bartender App
No in-app purchases
Poursmith
No in-app purchases
