Cocktail Flow - Drink Recipes

The interface is very smooth for this app. Easy to use and not overly clunky or crowded (an issue I found with a few comparable apps here). This isn't going to give you a list of every cocktail known to mankind. But it's got a super solid list of anything you'd realistically want to make. Plus, I really like the feature in which you can select the ingredients you have on hand, and it'll tell you what you can make (there may be one or two ingredients in a suggested cocktail that you don't have, but chances are these are basic things like limes or tonic that you really ought to have anyway). So overall, yes. I highly recommend this app.

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I’ve liked Cocktail Flow for a while: it’s got a good interface, has handy features (like keeping a “pantry” to help determine what drinks you can make), and has a decently large if relatively standard selection of cocktails. There are a few things that are off, like some of the recipes being copied to the app wrong, or the pantry feature having a relatively small selection of less basic liquors and mixers, or some cocktails being made oddly simple to fit in better with their sorting and ingredient database. Nevertheless, I thought it was the best iOS app for most purposes. But... the pricing. I didn’t mind it too much when I first started using it, and it had a few $.99 -$2 cocktail packs that were mostly seasonal or other special occasion related. However, ever since the big revamp I think the pricing is kind of ridiculous: $20 a year or $4 dollars a month just to use this app that’s just doing what dozens of other apps and websites do, for free or just a single payment? When you look at the lists, more than half of the cocktails, including some very basic ones, are premium, which is incredibly frustrating. I know app developers have to make money somehow, but I would rather have just paid $5 once and had a few small IAP for seasonal collections at the worst, or something. But just adding some improperly transcribed cocktail recipes copied from someone else’s cookbook? Not worth it

I love all the features here, especially sorting by "themes" and drink type, and the personalized liquor cabinet recipes is fantastic. And it's visually lovely and easy to use! The one thing that would really make it perfect - 6 stars - would be if we could create and/or edit existing recipes for our own favorites list (i.e. no uploading of unvetted recipes, just local copies). That would make this my true one-stop shop for all things cocktail-related, rather than needing to stash my own list of personalized recipes elsewhere.

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Visually, this is by far the most polished cocktail app. Previous versions had some limitations in terms of content but no app can have everything. There were some inconsistencies in the measurements that have not been addressed for years. These are irritations that can prevent an app to get a perfect score, but it was a very decent one. The picture changed with the new release. What the new version “adds” is a reduced list of cocktails and inability to import previously purchased content unless one kept the receipts (who and why would keep all receipts over the years?). Very curious what market research was done to justify the premium subscription prices... good luck with your plan. Very disappointing developments.

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So with Cocktail Flow’s latest version the developers want you to subscribe. Nothing wrong with that, in theory. But now, unless you subscribe, you won’t have access to a number of the recipes which were previously in the app! My daughter’s favorite - the alcohol-free Designated Appletini - gone! French Gimlet - bye-bye! And that’s just what I noticed after 30 seconds. This app never had that big a selection of cocktails... and now it’s even smaller. Yeah, that’s gonna encourage me to give these guys 5 bucks a month. You should probably look elsewhere at this point. There are much better-known cocktail apps containing significantly more recipes which only ask you to pay once - go with one of those.