Bar Assistant
Manage your home bar while adding your ingredients, searching for cocktails and creating custom cocktail recipes.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 48% of tracked projects; popularity more than 36%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 1.1k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v6.8.1 · 23 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | PHP, Docker |
Is Bar Assistant actively maintained?
Bar Assistant is under active development: 250 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 34 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 164% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v6.8.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Bar Assistant ranks #5 of 11 in Recipe Management, placing it mid-table for maintenance activity.
What Bar Assistant actually does
Bar Assistant is a self-hosted tool designed for organising home bar inventories and managing cocktail recipes. Users can catalogue their available ingredients, search through drink databases, and input custom mixology instructions. It falls squarely into the recipe management category, tailored specifically to beverage preparation.
Best fit: It is a practical choice for home bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts who want a dedicated digital inventory of their bottles and mixers rather than a generic notes app.
Worth knowing: Given its niche scope, it may lack the broader integrations or community support found in more mainstream general recipe managers.
Deployment notes
Because it runs via Docker, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes for your database and uploaded assets, along with a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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