Spirit Library vs MacroPrep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spirit Library
Explore over 1,500 cocktail recipes, from classics to modern creations. Build your home bar inventory to see what you can make and save your favorites. Create and share your own unique drink recipes.
- Extensive cocktail recipe library
- Organized by spirit type
- Home bar inventory builder
- Customizable recipe lists
- Create and save original recipes
- Share recipes with friends
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Spirit Library is your ultimate cocktail companion — a curated collection of over 1,500 classic and modern recipes at your fingertips. DISCOVER Browse an extensive library of cocktails organized by spirit — gin, vodka, whiskey, rum, tequila, mezcal, amaro, and more. Every recipe includes ingredients, instructions, glassware, and flavor profiles. BUILD YOUR BAR Add the spirits and ingredients you have at home. Spirit Library instantly shows you every cocktail you can make right now, sorted by how many ingredients you already have. SAVE & ORGANIZE Save your favorite recipes and organize them into custom lists — Date Night, Party Drinks, Classics — whatever works for you. CREATE YOUR OWN Build and save your own original cocktail recipes. Customize every detail and keep your creations alongside the classics. SHARE Share your cocktail lists with friends via text or email directly from the app. Whether you're a home bartender or a seasoned mixologist, Spirit Library has everything you need to shake, stir, and sip. Please drink responsibly. Must be 21+ to consume alcohol.
MacroPrep
Easily plan meals and track nutritional information in real-time. Build recipes, see macro breakdowns per ingredient, and generate consolidated shopping lists from community recipes or your own creations. Ideal for home cooks and those focused on macro tracking.
- Real-time macro tracking for recipes
- Ingredient-level nutritional breakdown
- Community recipe sharing and search
- Automated shopping list generation
- Personal recipe collection
- Adjustable serving sizes
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Make meal planning easy! Add an ingredient, watch the numbers move. MacroPrep shows you calories, protein, carbs, and fat in real time as you build any recipe — every ingredient's contribution, out in the open, per serving. Then let it do your planning: search recipes other cooks have shared, drop a week's worth into a shopping list, and MacroPrep merges everything into one list. Weekly planning, minimized. BUILD RECIPES WITH FULL MACRO TRANSPARENCY • Search 2M+ ingredients from the USDA food database — whole foods and brands • See each ingredient's macros the moment you add it • Get per-serving totals for calories, protein, carbs, and fat • Scale servings up or down and the numbers follow MINIMIZE WEEKLY PLANNING • Browse and search recipes from the community • Add any mix of your recipes and others' to a shopping list • Adjust servings per recipe and quantities recalculate automatically • Check items off as you shop MAKE IT YOURS • Save favorites and build your personal collection • Share your creations • Your recipes, your servings, your week MacroPrep is built for home cooks, meal preppers, and anyone tracking macros who's tired of guessing. Questions or feedback: support@macroprep.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spirit Library at every 9 days against MacroPrep's every 2 months. Spirit Library also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spirit Library against 5.0 for MacroPrep. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spirit Library has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Spirit Library ships an update every 9 days, MacroPrep every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spirit Library | MacroPrep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | STEVEN MICHAEL SAMORI | MacroPrep, LLC |
Customer experience
Spirit Library
MacroPrep
In-app purchases
Spirit Library
No in-app purchases
MacroPrep
No in-app purchases
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