Free forever for the essentials

Scan Your Bottles.
Discover What to Pour.

Snap a photo of your bar, and our AI instantly matches you with cocktails you can make right now, no missing ingredients, no guessing. Or dial in a taste and let Flavor Lab invent a brand-new drink from the bottles you own.

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Free forever for the essentials. No credit card to browse. Pour your first drink in under a minute.

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Free on iOS and Android.

Hundreds of recipes & growing AI-powered recommendations Free forever core

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Skip the $18 Cocktail

Make bar-quality drinks at home for a fraction of the cost. Hundreds of recipes at your fingertips, and growing every month.

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Impress Everyone You Pour For

Earn 40 badges as you master new techniques. Share creations with a community that gets it.

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A Genuinely Generous Free Tier

Scan your bar, browse hundreds of recipes, match cocktails, and join the community, free, forever. Go Top Shelf for unlimited AI and your whole bar as shelf art.

From bottles to cocktails in three steps

From your first bottle to your hundredth recipe, we make it effortless.

Snap your bottles

Take a photo or search. We identify every spirit, liqueur, and mixer in seconds.

Discover what to make

Instantly see every cocktail you can craft with what you have, plus what's just one bottle away.

Make it, snap it, Cheers it

Post a drink you actually made (Make & Toast), get a Cheers from the community, and build your Sip Streak, the part no other cocktail app has.

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

No bloat. Just the tools that make home bartending effortless.

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Photo scanning

Snap your shelf. AI recognizes brands and categorizes them instantly.

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Smart recipe matching

We check your bar against hundreds of recipes and show exactly what you can make.

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AI cocktail assistant

Ask anything. Get suggestions, extract cocktails from menu photos, discover new recipes.

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Flavor Lab

Dial in a taste with a few sliders, and AI invents a complete, balanced cocktail, using only the bottles you own if you like.

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Recipe packs

Themed collections to flip through and save, from timeless classics to fresh seasonal drops.

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Cocktail history & stories

Every classic has an origin story. Learn the fascinating history behind your favorite drinks.

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A real community

Make & Toast your drinks, Snap & Cheers others, Join the Drink, share recipes, and climb the leaderboards.

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40 badges & scoring

Collector, Mixologist, Explorer, level up across 9 categories with 5 tiers each.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Home Bar Hero really free?

Home Bar Hero is free to download with a genuinely generous free tier, scan your bar, browse hundreds of recipes, match cocktails, earn badges, and join the community at no cost. Saved recipes are unlimited for everyone; power users can upgrade to Top Shelf for unlimited AI credits and their whole bar rendered as beautiful AI shelf art.

What cocktails can I make with what I have?

Home Bar Hero scans your bottles via photo or manual entry, then instantly matches your inventory against hundreds of community-powered recipes to show you exactly what you can make tonight, plus what's just one bottle away.

Is there an app that scans bottles and suggests cocktails?

Yes! Home Bar Hero uses AI-powered photo recognition to identify your bottles, then suggests cocktails you can make. Free to start on iOS and Android.

What are the essential bottles for a home bar?

A great starter bar includes bourbon, gin, vodka, white rum, tequila, vermouth, Angostura bitters, triple sec, and simple syrup. Home Bar Hero shows which cocktails you unlock with each bottle.

How do I track my home bar inventory?

Snap a photo of your shelf or search manually. Home Bar Hero's AI recognizes brands and spirit categories, keeping your inventory organized so you always know what you have and what you can make.

Can the app invent a cocktail for me?

Yes. Flavor Lab lets you dial in the taste you want with sliders (sweet, sour, bitter, boozy, and more), then AI invents a complete, balanced cocktail, names it, and writes the full recipe. Turn on "only my bar" and it builds using just the bottles you own. It runs on your weekly AI credits, free to start.

What are recipe packs?

Recipe packs are themed collections of cocktails you can flip through, save, and make, from timeless classics to fresh seasonal drops. New packs land regularly, and saving one adds the recipes straight to your bar.

Scan Your Bottles.Discover What to Pour.