I really want to give this app 5 stars and its so close to perfect, but major limitations and graphical bugs weigh it down an otherwise really useful app.
Pros
I can tell it what I have and it tells me what I can make. So youre not looking through recipes for drinks you cant make anyway. Brilliant! This is basically why you want to buy this app.
I love the big library of cocktails.
I can save favorite cocktails to quickly find later.
If I browse for a cocktail and see I dont have all the ingredients, I can tap once to add the ingredients to a shopping list. Super easy and convenient.
Cons
I hate all the graphical glitches. You can still use the app, but little icons and pics crash together with text so badly it just looks broken. I think one of the iOS updates broke the UI, but if they are this slow to update, it speaks poorly of the support team.
Hate that if you put in a specific liquor vs a generic one, it nearly breaks the app. Example: I can make a rum-based cocktail with any brand rum, but if happen to choose Bacardi Rum from their list, instead of simply rum, it will hide 99% of cocktails containing rum and only show me the one recipe that it knows that specifically calls for Bacardi brand rum. It does this with all liquors so you have to be careful what you tell it. Generally, its a game of adding things twice: one for Bacardi and another for just plain old rum so you are sure youre seeing all the cocktails you can make. Stupid!
Ill give this app 4 stars if they fix those things. And 5 stars if they overhaul the graphics. Its ugly and the skeuomorphic design makes it look really dated. Some people like the retro graphics and "notes on a napkin" look, but I dont. It needs a major update.