A tasting journal for the world's most contradictory cocktailNegroni is a small, quiet app for people who care about their cocktails. You log a glass, you remember a place, you find a pattern. That's it.
I built it for myself — I kept losing track of which bar made that perfect Negroni in Lisbon, or which gin worked better with Carpano Antica. A note in the iPhone wasn't enough. A spreadsheet felt sterile. So I made the thing I wanted to use.
It turned out nice enough that I figured I'd share it.
What it doesLog a tasting. Bar name, gin, vermouth, ice style, garnish, your rating, a few words, the price, a photo if you took one. The app remembers where you were so you can find that bar on the map later.
Browse your history. Sorted by date, by rating, or by price. Tap a card to see the full memory — including the address, gently reverse-geocoded from coordinates.
See the map. Every tasting becomes a pin. Useful for "wait, where did I have that good one?"
Read your stats. Thirteen little cards: how many glasses, your average rating, your signature gin × vermouth pair, your ice preference, your favourite bar, your favourite weekday. Plus a heat map of your year. Plus a personality badge — The Purist, The Jetsetter, The Loyal — that quietly evolves as your taste does.
Share a postcard. Each tasting can be exported as a kraft-paper card with your photo and the details, ready to save or send. It looks like something you'd pin to a corkboard.
What it doesn't doNo accounts. No login. No analytics. No ads. No data sent anywhere.
Everything stays on your phone. If you turn on iCloud, your tastings sync between your devices through your own iCloud — Apple's encrypted infrastructure, not mine. I don't have a server. I don't see anything.
You're the only audience for your tastings.
Who it's for- People who order Negroni often enough to want to remember
- People who travel and want to find that bar again
- People who quietly enjoy a well-made object more than a flashy one
- People who don't need ten cocktail apps — just one done properly
If you've never had a Negroni, this isn't the app to learn. There are no recipes here, no instructions, no list of variations. It's a journal, not a guide.
A note from meThis is a personal project. I made it for myself first, because no app on the market did exactly this. Every detail — the kraft-paper postcards, the handwritten restaurant signature, the slightly playful badges — exists because I wanted it to be there.
I'm not building a company. I'm not chasing scale. I just thought some of you might enjoy it too.
If you do, that makes me happy. If you don't, no harm done.
PriceFree. Always free. No purchases inside.
Available on iPhone via the App Store. Requires iOS 17 or later.
For 17+ — the app references alcohol consumption (it's about cocktails, after all).
PrivacyNegroni stores everything on your device. If you enable iCloud sync, your data is encrypted and synced through Apple's iCloud, accessible only by you. The app does not collect, transmit, or share any personal information with anyone — including me.
Full privacy policy: http://schelkovoy.com/negroni-privacy
ContactBuilt by Vassili Schelkovoy. Photographs of bars and glasses welcome at negroni@schelkovoy.com
If something breaks, I'll fix it when I can. If you have an idea, I'll consider it. This isn't a service desk — it's a small project from one human to others.
Cheers.