Highball by Studio Neat vs Bartender School
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Highball by Studio Neat
Easily collect and share your favorite cocktail recipes. Create custom drink cards with ingredients, descriptions, and images. Import and edit existing drink recipe cards to personalize your collection.
- Collect cocktail recipes
- Share drink recipe cards
- Custom drink images
- Import and edit recipes
- Ingredient selection
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Highball is for collecting and sharing cocktail recipes. Choose the ingredients, description, and custom drink image for each recipe. Share as a beautiful "drink recipe card" on your favorite social network. When you save and import a drink recipe card image, it becomes fully editable.
Bartender School
Learn to mix popular cocktails with this app that memorizes ingredients and provides quizzes on bar tools, glassware, and more. Master bartending essentials and impress with your skills.
- Cocktail ingredient memorization
- Quizzes on bar tools
- Learn about glassware
- Garnish and liqueur knowledge
- Beer type information
- Cocktail challenge preparation
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Memorize the ingredients of the world’s most popular cocktails. Learn the art of bartending with step-by-step lessons, visual guides, quizzes, and interactive practice. Learn ingredients, measurements, and garnishes through a cocktail memorization game. Progress through increasingly challenging levels as you build your knowledge of popular drinks and timeless classics. LEARN THE ART OF BARTENDING Explore 25 lessons covering bar tools, glassware, spirits, liqueurs, garnishes, and mixing techniques. Build practical knowledge of bar setup, speed bartending, batch cocktails, safety, food pairings, and opening and closing procedures. PUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE INTO PRACTICE Test your cocktail memory, practice pouring accuracy, match cocktails with food, and complete quizzes. Work through the lessons and earn your Bartender School completion certificate. Whether you’re preparing for your first bartending job or want to make better cocktails at home, start with the recipes everyone orders—and build your skills from there. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Highball by Studio Neat at 89% against Bartender School's 43%. Highball by Studio Neat also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). Bartender School's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and chart position (#105 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, 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. Highball by Studio Neat sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Bartender School sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bartender School holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 283 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Highball by Studio Neat's written reviews are positive against 43% of Bartender School's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Highball by Studio Neat ships an update every 3 weeks, Bartender School monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Highball by Studio Neat | Bartender School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (283 ratings) | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.8% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 283 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #105 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 426 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Studio Neat | Henrique Bersani |
Customer experience
Highball by Studio Neat
Bartender School
User reviews
Highball by Studio Neat
From 283 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💎 Elegant and beautiful design
- 🍸 Excellent for cocktail enthusiasts
- 📚 Comprehensive recipe library
- 🎨 Customizable drink cards
- 🤩 Highly praised by users
Room to improve
- 🔍 Lack of search and sorting options
- 🌐 No cloud backup or sync
- 🔢 Limited character count for recipe instructions
- 🔀 Difficulty rearranging ingredients
- 📤 Sharing recipes is cumbersome
Bartender School
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤖 Easy and effective cocktail memorization
- 🎓 Helpful for getting a bartending job
- 🎮 Fun and engaging learning experience
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription at $50/month
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and bugs
- ❌ Unreliable certificate delivery
Bugs and requests
Highball by Studio Neat
Reported bugs
3 issues- Recipe cards not loading properly
- Ingredient quantities not saving correctly
- Occasional app crashes
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to organize recipes by category, alcohol type, etc.
- Cloud backup and sync across devices
- More garnish and glassware options
- Improved recipe sharing functionality
- Ingredient measurement conversion tools
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- Apple Watch app integration
Bartender School
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashing after level 1
- Subscription issues causing account lockout
Requested features
2 requests- Wine training module
- Ability to report issues and errors
In-app purchases
Highball by Studio Neat
- Generous Tip$0.99
- Benevolent Tip$1.99
- Bounteous Tip$4.99
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- Magnanimous Tip$9.99
Bartender School
- Student Subscription$19.991 Month
- Cocktail Memorizer Access$9.99
- Lifetime Membership$199.00
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