Every cocktail your bar can make
My Bar is your personal cocktail engine. Add what you have on the shelf and we show you, in real time, every cocktail you can make right now — from your bar, with your bottles.
- 300+ ingredient types
- AI photo scan
- Free to start
Three steps to your perfect bar
No spreadsheets, no setup — just tick what you have.
Add what you have
Walk through guided categories or search for any of our 16,000+ ingredients and brands. Add 5 or 500 — we update what you can make instantly.
Snap a photo
PremiumLine up your bottles, take one picture, and our AI finds the labels and adds the matched ingredients to your bar for you.
See your cocktails
Every drink you can make appears the moment you add an ingredient. Filter by classics, easy, hot, non-alcoholic, or “one ingredient away”.
Every feature, explained
Click a feature to see what it does and how to use it.
Build your bar in minutes
New to home bartending? Our guided setup walks you through 6 ingredient categories — Essentials, Spirits, Mixers, Extras, Liqueurs and Pantry — adding only the most common picks people actually use.
Already know what you have? Hit the search and start typing. We have over 16,000 ingredients and brands indexed, with smart matching so “triple sec” finds Cointreau and your generic bottle alike.
- Tap to add or remove — your cocktail list updates live
- Add by brand — we record the brand and the ingredient type
- Can't find it? Suggest a missing ingredient and we'll add it
Photo Scan: your bar in one shot
Line your bottles up on the counter, take one picture, and our AI reads the labels, matches them against our 16,000+ ingredient database, and presents the results for you to confirm.
Perfect for the “friend's house at midnight” moment, or your dad's liqueur cabinet you've never investigated. Add them all to your current bar, or create a new one just for this scan.
- AI label reading on bottles, cans and labels
- Review and refine matches before they're saved
- Add to your main bar, or spin up a new bar for the scan
See every cocktail you can make right now
The moment you add an ingredient, your “can make” count updates. Open it and we show you every recipe that works with what you have — no filtering, no scrolling through stuff you can't mix.
Filter by classics, easy drinks, hot cocktails, non-alcoholic, or our favourite — “one ingredient away” — so you can see the great cocktails sitting just behind a single bottle.
- Live count of make-able cocktails as you build
- One-ingredient-away view to find your next buy
- Filters for classics, easy, hot, non-alcoholic and more
What to buy next — backed by your bar
We look at your bar, the cocktails you're one away from, and what people with bars like yours bought next. The result: a short shopping list ranked by how many new (great) cocktails it unlocks.
No more buying a bottle you only use once. Each suggestion tells you exactly which cocktails it adds and the average rating, so you know it's worth the shelf space.
- Ranked by cocktails-unlocked, not popularity
- See the exact cocktails each bottle adds
- Refreshes as you grow your bar
Multiple bars + home ingredients
Keep your main bar at home, a separate bar at the cabin, and a “scan-from-the-party” bar — switch between them in one tap. Each bar has its own ingredients and its own cocktail list.
Premium members can also toggle “assume I have all the pantry staples”, so we count salt, sugar, ice, water and the rest for you without you ticking each one. Less clicking, more drinking.
- Switch bars in one tap — same account, separate bars
- Auto-include pantry staples per bar
- Rename, delete and pick a primary bar
Your bar follows you everywhere
Once your bar is set, every cocktail page, list and search adapts to what you can actually make.
On every cocktail page
We tell you instantly whether you can make it, or which one ingredient you're missing.
On every list
Filter any of our curated lists down to just the cocktails you can make tonight.
In search & filters
Search results, ingredient pages and brand pages all let you filter by your bar.
How ingredients & brands work
The clever bit behind My Bar — and why it matches more cocktails than you'd expect.
Categories, types and brands
Every cocktail ingredient lives in a 3-tier hierarchy: six top-level categories (spirits, liqueurs, mixers, fruit & herbs, pantry, bubbles & grapes), about 300 ingredient types under those, and thousands of specific brands under the types.
Adding a brand adds the type, too
Say you add Absolut Citron. We add the brand to your bar and also say you have “Lemon flavoured vodka”. Now any cocktail that calls for lemon vodka shows up, with a note that Absolut Citron will work — even if the recipe doesn't mention it by name.
Smart substitutions, not blunt matching
A Margarita doesn't need a specific tequila brand — it needs tequila. Our category logic surfaces cocktails when you have the right type, so you discover great drinks without having to own every bottle.
Pro tips
Small things that make a big difference.
Turn on home ingredients
Premium: skip ticking salt, sugar, ice, water etc. — we assume you've got them and count cocktails accordingly.
Make a second bar for trips
Premium: create a “holiday let” or “mate's house” bar with one tap, then switch back when you're home.
Scan, don't type
Premium: 40 bottles takes 30 seconds with Photo Scan — vs. five minutes of typing.
Use “one ingredient away”
The best filter on the site. Shows the great cocktails sitting behind a single bottle.
Let us pick your next bottle
“What to buy next” ranks bottles by how many new cocktails they unlock — not by what's trending.
Share your bar
Send a friend a link to your bar and the cocktails you can make — great for parties.
Frequently asked questions
Great, no problem. There are a couple of ways, but the easiest is to load up our search and then start typing the ingredient.
From there choose 'Cocktails made with ...' which will show you all the cocktails that have this ingredient in. Use the filter of only showing the cocktails you can make and hey presto, you're away.
This tool is only available for Premium Subscribers, as it uses quite enhanced AI algorithms and processes.
All brands are classified as a certain 'ingredient type', so for instance Absolute Citron, is classified as a Lemon Flavoured Vodka. If you search for your brand name we should find the ingredient, and from there you can add it.
When you add a brand to your bar, we store that information, as well as saying you now have the ingredient type. In this example we add 'Absolute Citron' as well as 'Lemon flavoured vodka' to your bar.
We now can show you all the cocktails you can use your Absolut Citron ingredient, that mention Lemon Flavoured Vodka.
When you remove an ingredient that isn't a brand, we remove it from your bar, as well as all brands that sat underneath it. You can't remove 'Lemon flavoured vodka' (for instance) and say you don't have it, whilst recording you have Absolut Citron.
If you remove a brand from your bar, we just remove the brand but keep the ingredient parent in your bar. You may have another brand as that ingredient type still lying around.
Yes — Premium members can create as many bars as they like and switch between them in a tap. Each bar has its own ingredients and its own list of cocktails you can make. Handy for a 'home' bar, a 'holiday let' bar, or a one-off bar from a photo scan.
Home ingredients are pantry staples almost everyone has — salt, sugar, ice, water, eggs and so on. Premium members can toggle 'assume I have these' per bar, so we count cocktails that need them without you ticking each one.
Yes. Each bar gets a shareable link that shows your bar and the cocktails it can make. Great for picking a drink together at a party, or arguing with your housemate over what to buy next.
No. You can start adding ingredients as a guest and your bar is saved to your session. Register a free account when you want to keep it across devices, share it, or unlock 'one ingredient away' and 'what to buy next' features.
We've done our best to categorise all ingredients into a superset of 300 or so ingredient types. Not every ingredient in the world fits into these categories, but any cocktails that require an obscure ingredient we show on the cocktail page itself, and mark that ingredient as not relevant for My Bars. If an ingredient does deserve to be surfaced as a top level item it will get promoted into the MyBar functionality.
We've collected a huge number of brands in our database, but new brands are popping up all the time. If you can't find a certain brand, it's probably because we haven't added it into our database. Simply get in touch with us and we can add it in.
If you're a brand and wish to know more, take a look at our Brand Partners page.
Ready to find your next cocktail?
Build your bar in two minutes and never wonder “what can I make?” again.
