For iPhone · Coming to the App Store
Photograph your shelf and Pixologist reads the labels, builds your cabinet, and tells you what you can make tonight. Rate what you pour and it maps your palate across six axes, names your archetype, and mints a taste card you can carry to the bar.
Rich, spirit-led classics
Signature pours
Old Fashioned · Manhattan · Vieux Carré
How it works
No typing. No barcodes. Just point your camera at the shelf.
Point your camera at the shelf or a single bottle. Labels are read on your device, with no upload. Curved glass, ornate typefaces and embossed foil included.
Brands matched, categories assigned, bottle levels tracked. Edit anything in a tap.
Recipes are matched live against your exact cabinet. Ready means right now. One away shows the single bottle that unlocks it.
Four ratings in, your six-axis taste vector resolves to one of ten archetypes, and your taste card is minted with its own serial. Until then: still tasting.
The taste card
Rate the drinks you pour and Pixologist works out where your palate lives on the taste map. It names your archetype, writes it up with slightly too much accuracy, and mints a numbered card for Apple Wallet, handy at the bar, when "what do you like?" deserves a better answer than "something nice."
What it means
You drink late and low, like the bar's about to close and you're in no hurry to help it. Your orders are old enough to have obituaries: stirred, brown, served with the lights down. You distrust anything that arrives quickly or tastes finished on the first sip. A drink should take roughly as long to understand as it took to make. Ideally longer.
Rich, spirit-led classics
Signature pours
Old Fashioned · Manhattan · Vieux Carré
Where to go next: Bobby Burns, your Manhattan after a semester in Scotland.
The taste map
Each archetype is a corner of the six-axis taste map. Yours is highlighted — and every rating you give sharpens the shape.
Tonight
Pixologist matches your cabinet to a curated library of classic and contemporary cocktails, plus your own. Ready means right now. One away shows you exactly what's missing.
Gin · Campari · Sweet vermouth
Rum · Lime juice · Sugar syrup
Vodka · Coffee liqueur · Espresso
Coffee liqueur unlocks it
Bourbon · Angostura · Sugar
Bourbon and bitters to go
Feeling lucky? Shake your phone. On-device AI can invent something new from exactly what you own, tuned to your sliders — always honestly labelled. AI suggestion — experimental, not a tested recipe
The full bar
Write your own recipes, keep your notes verbatim, and see each spec's taste-shape next to its closest cousin. Tastes like: Last Word. No score, just the shape.
A whole tab of no- and low-alcohol drinks built on botanical spirits, fermented bases and precision technique. These are cocktails that happen to be alcohol-free.
Lemons, sugar, ice: taken as read. Recipes are never blocked on the small stuff, and the full list of assumptions is one tap away, in plain sight.
Log how full each bottle is. One quiet nudge a week, only when there's something to restock. No mid-cocktail surprises.
Curved text, ornate typefaces, embossed detail: the hard cases that trip up generic OCR are exactly what Pixologist is built for.
Add your taste card to Apple Wallet or share it as a poster. Your taste archetype, built from the drinks you rate in Pixologist.
Privacy
We're straight with you about what we collect and why. And just as straight about what never gets collected at all.
Your cabinet stays private to your device. We never share which bottles you own in a way that's linked to you.
While the app works it says exactly what it's doing: Reading label · on-device · no upload
. Photos of your shelf are analysed on your iPhone, not on a server.
Sync your taste profile so it works across devices, stored privately in the UK. Export or delete it anytime. And separately, contribute anonymised insights: stripped of identity on your device, and can't be linked back to you. Neither is pre-ticked. Change either anytime in Profile.
The app's privacy manifest declares zero tracking and zero tracking domains. No hidden profiling, no selling your information.
Pixologist is 18+ only. Recipes and suggestions are for personal use. Please drink responsibly, and never drink and drive.
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Or reach us at theteam@pixologist.app