Cocktail Party
reviews and complaints

The app is easy and has a great interface. Large library of drinks of all styles.

I do hope that eventually they add a feature to be able to add drinks to a “wishlist” to make. Currently you can add drinks to your favorites, but if you just want to try a drink later, there’s no place currently in the app for that. A similar feature could be implemented for ingredients you want to get next; however, this wouldn’t add as much benefit as a wishlist for drinks to make would.

We are big into tiki and had kind of hit the wall with the popular books (like Smugglers Cove and Minimalist Tiki). I found this app by searching the web for banana liqueur drinks. I am just tickled with the broad range of cocktails in this app. We have an extensive selection of spirits and syrups and so far I’ve favorited about 30 drinks. Have made several already and they were delicious. No need for infusions or highly specialized syrups. It’s going to be a great summer with this app!

In even two days this app has enabled me to try many new combinations and expand my library of drinks. In all ways it’s the app I didn’t know I needed until I saw it recommended.

Some ideas:
I appreciate that there is a favorites list, but could there also be a “Want to make” list?

Also possibly a search-by-ingredient function, beyond the already-similar ingredient library and “drinks I can make” section. Basically an ad hoc ingredient library, which basically displays a one-time “drinks I can make” and “drinks with 1/2+ more ingredients” without modifying the ingredient library.

Clean, uncluttered, easy to use, and very helpful. Well worth the few dollars! Best cocktail app I’ve seen honestly. Like that there is a description with each drink.

Constructive criticism:
Each section in the Drinks tab should be an accordion (collapsible). If I want to see drinks I need ingredients for, I don’t want to scroll thru all the drinks I can make first.

Wishlist:
Search by ingredients. So if I want to make something with, say, mint and grenadine, show me all the drinks that include these (both together or individually). I would slam the star rating until you magically got 6 stars if this was included :)

I’ve tried at least a dozen cocktail apps, but this is clearly the best. It’s easy to use, sports an excellent design, and the library is full of great drinks. I love that it not only lets me keep track of the ingredients in my bar, but also recommends ingredients to buy so I have more recipe options. It even has a real native iPad version, which was an amazing surprise. Kudos to the developer; I hope you keep maintaining this app for years to come!

EDIT: One suggestion — it would be awesome if ingredients and favorites synced across devices. I often switch between my iPhone and iPad and having my data in both spots would be super useful.

There are lots of cocktail apps, and I’ve tried them all (well, a lot of them anyway). This is the best one. Cocktail Party has a clean UI, interesting write-ups about the cocktails, and the best recipes hands-down. The developers also update the app with new drinks frequently. As of the time of this review it’s almost Christmas, and they just added like 10 new wintery drinks using fun and festive ingredients. But my FAVORITE part is that the app recommends ingredients to add to your liquor cabinet ranked by how many new drinks they’ll allow you to make. E.g. if you add orange juice to your current library, you could make 11 new drinks. So handy!

I’ve tried and own almost all the “good” cocktail apps in the App Store including the likes of pdt, Mixel, etc. This is the one I turn too most often when I don’t know what I want to drink. The categories are always helpful. It has a nice interface and I really enjoy the constant recipe releases to keep things fresh. Bottle replacement suggestions are always on point. Also, the app developers are extremely responsive to requested features which is awesome.

My only small complaint is the lack of a random button and tags but the developers informed me they will be released soon. Once those are out this will be the premier app for home mixologists.

This is my new favorite app, and I’ve been using it a lot lately. Great instructions, artwork and stories to go along with every recipe. Just one thing that’s driving me crazy. The size of the font on the measurements is far too small if you’re reading it with your phone on the bar while you’re making the drink. I’ve mistook a 1/4oz for 3/4oz twice now because from that distance, these measurements are indistinguishable from each other. To the devs, PLEASE make this app a better tool for us users and make it possible for us to read the measurements from a short distance while we use our hands to make the cocktail. Everything else is great though! Highly recommended!

The Cocktail Party app loads differently on different phones. My wife’s phone has this app too, and it loads in full screen mode, however my phone loads it in the smaller legacy iPhone format. i’ve looked in the settings and cannot find anything to load this differently. Also, my wife and I never changed any settings from the initial time we loaded this app. Wife and I both have the exact same phones, iPhone 13 Pro’s.

I opened a support ticket with the vendor through the app about two weeks ago, and the company hasn’t responded. If I could get this working correctly, I will raise this review to a higher star but in the meantime, I’m using this app and in a restricted format.

You search on the web for a cocktail and you get their website. On the site they prompt you to buy the app. You do, only to find out that the app doesn’t contain half of the cocktails you’re looking for - including the very one you searched for that brought to their site to begin with! UPDATE: Sent message to support and actually got a very quick response. Turns out it was from the app developer herself! She was extraordinarily helpful. Seems that there are some glitches in the search feature, and you need to update the library. There are lots of cocktails to be found if you poke around in the library. Evidently they are trying to improve the search/find feature. Anxious to see the update.

The good:
- Massive selection of recipes
- New drinks added frequently within the app
- Artwork is superb
- Ability to sort cocktails by ingredient
- Descriptions are fun and insightful. The developers have clearly spent time on their research

The bad:
- UI is a mess. Sometimes hitting the back button won’t return to you to the previous page. No way to quickly jump to top of page.
- No “to try” list or way to add notes to recipes
- Artwork on main page makes scrolling take forever. Please consider adding a text view.

I’ve been using this app for over a year, and it’s become an indispensable tool in my home bar. If some of the issues above get addressed, it would easily be the best cocktail app I’ve ever used. Cheers!

I got this app on the recommendation of a friend. I’ve been through a number of websites and apps recently that all mostly do the same thing - take an inventory of my bar and try to recommend drinks to make. If you’ve done the same, you’ll know there’s a sea of really awful apps in this category. This one, however, does it really well - the user interface for adding my home bar inventory was definitely a step above the rest. The drink library in the app was great, plenty to keep me interested (though I hope they continue to be active in adding more)! My only hiccup was figuring out categories on a few of the more obscure liqueurs. Luckily, the app’s icons are good enough that I was able to figure it out for everything. Great job!

This app is incredible, it's so easy to use and perfect for learning new cocktails.

Home bars by nature are limited in the variety of ingredients at your disposal. This app is great for planning out the variety of drinks you can make given a limited amount of ingredients, which is something lacking in other cocktail apps.

If you're hosting a small part or event, it becomes as easy as inputting the ingredients you have available, and then letting your guests pick from that menu. This opens up so many possibilities for drink discovery and fun cocktail nights.

I also love that it recommends drinks requiring 1 additional ingredient, because it makes my next grocery trip so much easier.

The user interface is also great and very easy to navigate. Highly recommended!

Absolutely love this app—the design is beautiful, the inventory is broad, and the descriptions are really well written and interesting, giving some insight into the history of the drink, how it tastes, and/or tips for making the most of it. I get inordinate satisfaction from adding ingredients to my shelf and seeing the little illustrated rendering of my bar! What would make this app even better: I like the ability to favorite, but I would also really love to be able to bookmark and/or mark a drink as “made” (I want to bookmark drinks to try, not just drinks I already know I like, and I’d love to keep track of what I’ve tried already, too). But even more importantly, please add notes functionality! When I try a new cocktail, I want to be able to note my impressions, any adjustments I made, whether I liked it or not, etc., so I know for next time!

This is my favorite app of all time. Not just cocktails or cooking. Literally everything. It’s completely opened up a world of cocktails to explore. Google can only answer questions I know to ask. Here I can pick a bottle I have under appreciated and just browse ways to use it. I love that it tells me what I can make with what I have on hand, and what I’m just missing one ingredient for. My wife loves sour drinks and I love classic cocktails. I love that I can get a set of options for each based on what I’ve got around. The near-miss functionality that allows it to show me drinks I have substitutions for, is awesome. (I don’t have blanco tequila, just aged. Should I miss out on the Conquistador for that? No!) This is everything an app should be. Required reading for aspiring app developers in any category.

I feel greedy asking for anything more but:
• I’d love for more options for ranking. I want to remember the drinks I made that I didn’t love or were just ok.
• I’d love tags so I could remember which friends loved which drinks as well.
• Add “my notes” section where I could note things like that I prefer this one with orange curaçao and that one with triple sec.
• And, a big one, garnishes. That’s a big part of a drink and I offer have to turn back to google for that one.

So this app is nearly already perfect, but it could be even perfecter. Keep up the good work.

Incredible app. Before this app, I knew how to make about five simple cocktails (e.g, Jack and Coke, screwdriver, and Cape Cod). Now I have the ingredients and know how to make 200+ cocktails. I’ve discovered many new favorites and enjoy mixing drinks for family and friends.

Features I love:
- Pay for app once, not monthly
- Enter inventory of liquor and mixers from your home bar, and app shows you what cocktails you can make with what you have on hand
- App makes it easy to discover new cocktails. For example, if you feel like drinking gin, select gin, and the app shows you all the drinks you can make with gin. Select ginger beer, and it shows you what you can make with that.
- For each cocktail, the app describes the history, where the recipe came from, what ingredients to use, and step-by-step how to make (including whether to shake or stir).
- Individual cocktails show you what ingredients you can substitute if you don’t have the preferred ingredient in your bar.
- App recommends liquors and mixers to buy by showing you how many cocktails and which ones you could make by buying that one extra ingredient.
- Find a drink you like, and the app will tell you which ingredients you have and whatever ingredients you need to buy to make.
- Mark your favorites and easily find in the future.

Features I’d love to see added:
- Rate cocktail from 1 to 5 rather than simply liking it. I’ve tried some cocktails that sounded better than they tasted. I’d like to remind myself in the future that I have already tried it and did not like it.
- Mark cocktails that I want to try in the future.

App looks great on the surface, but lacks any filtering capability. Search is very basic. Recipe database is decent, but no credit given to recipe sources.

Good resource for basic cocktails, but could use more recipes (or a way for users to submit suggestions/additions) and to add or update ingredients. For instance there’s no standard Fernet Branca as an ingredient, just the less commonly used branca menta, which seems odd.

For having to pay money for this app it’s pretty lack luster