Meet Drambook — Your private whiskey notebook

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Drambook

Your private whiskey notebook.

Every feature, from the first launch.

No account, no login, no cloud. Everything runs on your device and works fully offline — nothing in this post is hidden behind a wall.

What Drambook does

Drambook is the offline tasting journal for whiskey, bourbon, scotch, and rye collectors — the segment most aggressively underserved by today's spirits apps, which are catalogs and e-commerce funnels dressed up as journals.

What ships in v1:

— Per-bottle entry. Distillery, expression, mash bill, age, cask type, ABV, proof, region (for Scotch). Photo of the bottle, photo of the back-label. — Back-label OCR. Snap the back label, VisionKit reads distillery + age + ABV + proof into the record. — Tasting notes with a real schema. Nose, palate, finish — each with a structured field, not a single free-text blob. Add custom flavor tags from a bundled vocabulary (smoke, leather, vanilla, dried fruit, peat, etc). — 100-point and Murray-scale scoring side by side. — Price paid + current secondary-market value (you enter, no network call). Watch your collection's value change. — Search across your library. By distillery, by cask, by mash bill, by score, by flavor tag. — PDF "collection book" export. The thing you actually want to show someone — a printable journal of your whole library with tasting notes. — No account, no social feed, no club subscription, no recommendation engine. Distiller and Flaviar can have those. Drambook is a notebook. — Free.

For the US whiskey collector serving a $23.58B market with a 39% surge in limited-edition releases since 2022 — and for the bourbon hunter who just wants the tasting journal she's been keeping on index cards.

A look inside

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What's inside

Cellar — Library grid of bottles with photo + score
New bottle — Distillery + cask + ABV + photo; OCR back-label
Tasting entry — Nose / palate / finish + flavor tag chips + scores
Value — Price paid vs current value, lifetime cellar total
Export — Printable PDF collection book via share sheet

Why we built it

Whiskey enthusiasts want a private tasting journal but every dominant app is a catalog/social/e-commerce funnel — Distiller mixes notes with a social feed, Flaviar is a club subscription, Flavordex is a generalist that flattens whiskey-specific vocabulary.

What makes it different

Drambook is the only iOS spirits app with a whiskey-specific schema (mash bill, cask type, age, ABV, proof, region), VisionKit back-label OCR, side-by-side 100-point + Murray scoring, price-paid + secondary-market value tracking, and a printable collection PDF — Distiller is social-first, Flaviar is e-commerce-first,…

Who it's for

Built for anyone who values fast, private, on-device software with a calm, focused UX.

In one line: Your private whiskey notebook.

Try it

See the Drambook app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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