Riffing on classics.

A personalized cocktail app for home bartenders. Discover recipes, track your taste, and remix the canon.

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Old Fashioned

The riff mechanic

Every classic was once a riff.

Old Fashioned

A template. Whiskey, sugar, bitters, ice. The starting point.

Sazerac

+ absinthe rinse, swapped to rye and Cognac, Peychaud’s bitters.

Manhattan

A second root. Rye + sweet vermouth + bitters. A parallel template.

Vieux Carré

+ Bénédictine, + Cognac alongside rye. Built at New Orleans’ Carousel Bar.

Your riff

+ mole bitters, swapped Bénédictine for amaro. Tomorrow’s classic, probably.

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Negroni

Flavor intelligence

A drink isn't a list of ingredients. It's a shape.

Riffed describes every cocktail along the dimensions that actually matter — sweetness, bitterness, acidity, strength, body, complexity, aromatic intensity. The result is a flavor profile you can compare, contrast, and remix.

Three groups. Twenty-one dimensions. One legible shape.

Taste, aroma, and texture each draw their own polygon, layered in the same space. Where the shape swells is where the drink leans. The silhouette is the drink's thumbprint.

Same chart. Daiquiri’s shape is nothing like Negroni’s.

Scroll back and you'll see where the bitter softens, where the citrus blooms, where the herbal quiets — what each drink trades for the other.

Overlay any two drinks to see what's actually different — not just what got swapped on the spec sheet.

A swap of bourbon for rye is a one-line change in a recipe. On the chart it's a quiet tilt in heat and spice. That tilt is what your palate remembers.

Spec variance

The Manhattan has been written down a hundred ways.

Toggle between published specs to see how recipes differ — Death & Co's build, Difford's, the 1962 IBA standard, your own. Riffed shows the variance. You decide what's yours.

Select a spec to read its build.

Your palate. Not anyone else's.

Palate tracking

Your cocktails should be yours.

The more you log and rate, the better Riffed understands your palate. Recommendations sharpen. Riff suggestions get more pointed. Eventually the app knows you'd rather have a stirred drink before dinner and something effervescent after.

  • Vieux Carré

    A split base of rye and cognac with Bénédictine — same backbone as your favorites.

    Matches your stirred-and-spirit-forward shape.

  • Boulevardier

    Negroni structure, but the bourbon softens the bitter edge.

    Hits your bitter tolerance without going full Campari.

  • Penicillin

    Blended Scotch, honey, ginger, lemon — smoke wrapped around heat.

    Explores the smoke-and-sweet territory your check-ins keep finding.

Discovery

The canon, plus everything else.

IBA classics, Drinks International's top 50, modern classics, and a growing library of riffs from the community.

Riffed is for the people who can't leave a recipe alone.

If you've ever swapped the rye for mezcal "just to see," tracked vermouth ratios in your Notes app, or argued about whether your Negroni variation counts as a Boulevardier — this app is yours.

Pricing

Free to start. Premium when you're ready.

Free

The full Riffed experience for getting started.

  • Browse the full recipe library
  • Save drinks to your collection
  • Create unlimited riffs
  • Track what you’ve made
  • Build your palate profile
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Premium

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For serious enthusiasts.

  • Advanced flavor intelligence — palate-matched recommendations
  • Spec variance — compare published recipes side-by-side
  • Bar optimization — make the most of what’s on your shelf
  • Riff lineage tools — track and visualize your drink family tree
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Make the 401st.

Riffed is in TestFlight now, with a small group of home bartenders shaping what comes next.

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Available on iOS. Android coming soon.