For the curious shelf
No cloud. No login. No subscription trick. Pay once for the full app, your collection stays on this iPhone.
Manifesto
Most apps in this category want a subscription, an account, and your data. Drambook wants none of those. The shelf is yours; the record stays with you.
Start free, then unlock the collector tools once if you want them. No trial that auto-renews. The lifetime unlock is tied to your Apple ID; it follows you between devices.
There is no account. You don't sign up. Drambook never asks for your email, your name, or anything else. The first screen you see is your shelf.
Your collection lives on your iPhone, encrypted at rest by iOS. The catalog can receive signed updates, but your shelf, photos, tasting notes, and pours are not uploaded.
No ad SDKs. No third-party trackers. No "improve our product" data collection. Drambook has nothing to improve from your data because it never sees your data.
For the bottle on the shelf, the dram in the glass, and the line you'll write afterwards.
What's inside
Bourbons, Tennessee whiskey, ryes, Scotches, Irish, Japanese, Canadian, pre-loaded with mash bill, proof, region, and editorial notes. Signed catalog updates help the reference layer improve after launch.
Nose, palate, finish, three short fields, no five-paragraph form. Rate it as you go. The first dram is the first note; the rest follow.
Open a bottle, log the moment. Drambook tracks fill level, pour count, and the cellar value of what's still on the shelf.
Got an existing collection in CSV? Map the columns once, import the lot. Export back to CSV or PDF whenever you want, the shelf belongs to you, not us.
Catalog preview
A public slice of the private catalog: bourbons collectors chase, reference malts, Japanese staples, Irish anchors, and broader shelf signals. The app keeps the full record local on your iPhone.
One-time price
Drambook is a one-time unlock. There's no annual fee, no monthly fee, no surprise renewal. The price you see is the price you pay, in full, once.
How it works
Drambook is built the way collectors actually keep records, bottle, note, pour, then the cellar view that pulls it all together. Here is the full path, step by step.
Browse the built-in catalog of bourbons, ryes, Scotch, Irish, Japanese and world whiskies, or create a custom bottle by hand. Catalog entries arrive with distillery, mash bill, ABV, proof and region pre-filled, so you start with reference data rather than a blank form.
Capture batch, retailer, store pick, bottle size, value and label photos. A barrel pick from one shop and the standard bottling are different objects to a collector, Drambook treats them that way instead of collapsing them into one entry.
Nose, palate, finish, three short fields, a rating, and flavor tags. Tasting-note structure follows the long-standing nose/palate/finish convention used across whisky writing and the SAQ/SMWS flavour-wheel tradition, so your notes stay comparable bottle to bottle.
Every time you open a bottle, log the pour date, amount and occasion. Drambook keeps fill level and pour count current, so the dashboard knows what's still on the shelf rather than what you once bought.
The stats dashboard rolls pours and bottles into cellar value and shelf signals. Import an existing collection from CSV by mapping columns once, and export back to CSV or PDF at any time. The record is portable because it is yours.
Drambook is a private record, not a marketplace or price guide, it does not value your collection for resale or sell alcohol. Conventions referenced: the nose / palate / finish tasting structure standard in whisky tasting, the flavour-wheel approach pioneered by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, and on-device data protection via Apple's iOS Data Protection.
What it does, and doesn't
A private journal is a deliberately narrow tool. Here is exactly where Drambook helps, and where it stays out of your way.
Questions collectors ask
Drambook is free to download and use for adding bottles, tasting notes and pours. There is no subscription. A one-time lifetime unlock adds the collector tools, Wheel of Destiny, Flavor Explorer, the stats dashboard, cellar value views, and CSV/PDF import and export. You pay once on your Apple ID and it restores on any iPhone you sign in to.
Your personal collection, tasting notes, pour history, photos and exports stay on your device, encrypted at rest by iOS. Drambook has no account and no collection cloud, so your shelf is never uploaded. The only thing that touches the network is a signed catalog update that improves the shared reference library.
Yes. With the lifetime unlock you can map the columns of an existing CSV once and import the whole collection, then export back to CSV or PDF whenever you want. Your records are portable by design rather than locked in.
For every bottle you can record distillery, mash bill, ABV, proof, age, batch, retailer, store pick, bottle size and value, plus label photos. Tasting notes cover nose, palate, finish, a rating and flavor tags, and each pour logs its date, amount and occasion.
No. Drambook includes no ad SDKs, no third-party trackers and no analytics. It does not require an account and never asks for your email or name. There is nothing to learn from your data because the app does not see your data.
Drambook runs on iPhone and iPad and requires iOS 17.0 or later. It is intended for adults of legal drinking age, and it does not sell alcohol or facilitate alcohol purchases.
Field guides
Short, plain answers to the questions collectors run into while cataloging. What the numbers on the label mean, how the grain recipe decides the category, and why a private record outlasts a spreadsheet.
Get it
Start free, add your shelf, and unlock the collector tools once if you want them. Nothing leaves your iPhone, there is no account to make and nothing to cancel.
Available in
Drambook ships in fifteen carefully chosen markets, hand-tuned for tone where it matters, AI-assisted everywhere else. The catalog of bottles stays in English by design; the rest of the app speaks your language.