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8,500+ Drink Recipes vs Professional Bartender's Suite

Professional Bartender's Suite ranks ahead with General weights, 6.1 to 3.8. Professional Bartender's Suite is stronger on pour speed, finding, library, bar tools and price, and they're close on the rest.

Professional Bartender's Suite wins all four weighting presets. In the pour test, Professional Bartender's Suite models at 29 seconds per new drink against 35 for 8,500+ Drink Recipes.

Overall

Weights8,500+ DrinksBartender's Suite
General3.86.1
Behind the bar3.04.7
Home bar4.06.6
Equal weights3.45.5

Out of 10. The higher score in each row is bold.

Best for

8,500+ Drink Recipes
Casual browsing, if you can live with the ads.
Professional Bartender's Suite
A one-time-purchase reference for classic and older drinks.

Category by category

Out of 10. The app that leads each category is highlighted.

Pour speed

8,500+ Drinks3.4
Bartender's Suite5.5

Finding

8,500+ Drinks5.1
Bartender's Suite8.5

Library

8,500+ Drinks6.2
Bartender's Suite6.7

Bar tools

8,500+ Drinks1.2
Bartender's Suite1.9

Pro features

8,500+ Drinks0.0
Bartender's Suite0.0

Price

8,500+ Drinks2.3
Bartender's Suite9.9

Upkeep

8,500+ Drinks5.6
Bartender's Suite5.6

The pour test

8,500+ Drink Recipes 35 s, Professional Bartender's Suite 29 s

Modeled seconds of screen work for a new Mojito

  • Find the recipe
  • Bring it all on screen
  • First read
  • Look-backs while building
8,500+ Drink Recipes35.0 s
Professional Bartender's Suite28.6 s

Touches to reach the recipe

From the phone's home screen

8,500+ Drink Recipes8 touches
  1. Open
  2. Ad
  3. Search
  4. Type
  5. Type
  6. Pick
  7. Tab
  8. Tab
Professional Bartender's Suite6 touches
  1. Open
  2. Search
  3. Type
  4. Type
  5. Pick
  6. Scroll

How the pour test works

Specs

8,500+ Drink RecipesProfessional Bartender's Suite
Recipes8,500+ drink and cocktail recipes9,240+ ("updated to 2016")
PriceFree with ads; Diamond $7.99/mo or $49.99/yr removes ads and unlocks content$0.99, no in-app purchases
PlatformsiPhone, iPad, Mac with Apple siliconiPhone, iPad, Mac with Apple silicon
Updated14 Apr 2025 (7.4.1)24 Aug 2024 (iOS 17 support)
Rating4.7 App Store (32K)5.0 App Store (1)
PrivacyUsage and advertising data for third-party advertising, plus diagnostics for analytics; not linked to youNo data collected

Where their features differ

DocumentedPartlyNot documented
Feature8,500+ DrinksBartender's Suite
What can I makePartlyDocumented
Lessons & quizzesNot documentedPartly

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