Is There an Untappd for Cocktails?
Beer drinkers have had their check-in app for years. Cocktails deserve the same, for the ones you order out and the ones you build at home.
Yes. Drinqly is the Untappd for cocktails. You check in a cocktail, rate it, add a photo and a tasting note, and it lands in a searchable journal, whether you had it at a bar or made it at home. Unlike recipe and inventory apps, which help you make cocktails, Drinqly is built to help you remember the ones you drank, alongside every other drink you enjoy.
Search for an Untappd for cocktails and you will mostly find apps for building them: what to make with the bottles on your shelf, recipe books, inventory trackers. Those are genuinely useful if your hobby is mixing. But it is a different need from the one Untappd actually solved, which was never about brewing beer. It was about remembering the pour you just had and seeing what everyone else was drinking. For cocktails, that app is Drinqly.
The short version
- Most "cocktail apps" help you make drinks, not remember the ones you had.
- Drinqly is the check-in loop, rate, photo, note, for cocktails.
- It works for cocktails you order out and ones you mix at home.
- Friends feed, worldwide feed, and venue discovery come with it.
- The same journal also holds your wine, spirits, coffee, and more.
Two kinds of cocktail app
It helps to name the split, because the word "cocktail app" hides two very different things.
Apps for making cocktails
Tools like Mixel and MixMate live on the production side: they track the bottles you own, suggest what you can build, and store recipes. If you are a home bartender working on your technique, that is the shelf you want.
Apps for remembering cocktails
This is the Untappd side, and it is the one most people are actually asking for. You are not trying to manage a recipe library; you want to note that the Oaxaca Old Fashioned at that little bar was the best thing you drank all month, rate it, and be able to find it again. That is what Drinqly does.
Recipe apps answer "what can I make?" Drinqly answers "what did I love, and where do I get it again?" Those are different apps, and the second one is the Untappd-shaped hole.
| If you want to… | Recipe / inventory apps | Drinqly |
|---|---|---|
| Remember cocktails you drank | Not the focus | The whole point |
| Log ones you had at a bar | Rarely | Yes, with the venue |
| Rate & photograph a drink | Sometimes | Every check-in |
| See friends' pours | No | Friends + worldwide feed |
| Find good drinks nearby | No | Venue discovery |
| Keep wine, spirits & coffee too | No | Same journal |
None of this makes the recipe apps worse at what they do; they are just answering the other question. If yours is "what did I drink and love," this is the side you want.
The cocktails you had out
This is where a check-in app earns its keep. You are at a bar, the bartender hands you something you would never have ordered, and it is extraordinary. In a recipe app that moment vanishes. In Drinqly you check it in against the venue, give it a rating, and months later you can pull up exactly what it was and where to get it again. The same social layer that made Untappd fun at a taproom, seeing friends' pours, sharing your own, works here too, plus a worldwide feed of what people are drinking everywhere.
And it is not only cocktails
The reason to keep your cocktail log in Drinqly rather than a cocktail-only app is that you do not only drink cocktails. The Friday Negroni, the Sunday glass of wine, the neat whiskey after dinner, the Monday flat white; they all belong on one timeline, not scattered across four apps you forget to open. Drinqly is the check-in journal for every drink, so your cocktails live next to everything else you love. That is the fuller story on the Untappd for everything you drink.