Est. 1862 · Whisky Journal

Your Whisky Journal,
Made Permanent.

Record every dram. Capture nose, palate, and finish. Photograph the bottle. Score on 100 points. Explore classic cocktail recipes from 1862. Everything stays on your device — always.

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Journal 12 entries
Glenfarclas 1988
Rich dried fruit, Christmas cake, dark chocolate and old Sherry cask influence throughout.
◆ 94
Springbank 15
Briney, coastal with a signature Campbeltown earthiness. Toffee and wax on the finish.
◆ 91
Buffalo Trace
Vanilla, caramel and a hint of anise. Approachable entry point. Clean finish.
◆ 82
Zero
Data collected
Zero
Network connections
Zero
Third-party SDKs
100%
On-device storage
Everything you need

Built for those who take their drams seriously.

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Complete Privacy

No accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporters, no network calls. The app is enforced offline at the OS level via App Transport Security.

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Whisky Journal

Name, distillery, region, type, age, ABV, cask, price, tasting notes (nose, palate, finish), a 1–100 rating scale, and multiple photos per entry.

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Label Scanner

Photograph any whisky label. On-device OCR via Apple's Vision framework auto-fills name, distillery, ABV, and age. No image ever leaves your phone.

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Fully Offline

Works in a distillery cellar, a remote highland, or on airplane mode. No internet connection is ever needed — not even to unlock after purchase.

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Classic Recipes

15 whisky cocktail recipes from Jerry Thomas's 1862 "How to Mix Drinks" — the first cocktail book published in America — with original text preserved.

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Import & Export

Export your entire journal and recipes as a .whiskey file. Share via AirDrop or email. Import on any device running Pourledger.

The Classics, 1862

Before the cocktail had a name,
Jerry Thomas was defining it.

Fifteen whisky recipes from How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion — the first cocktail book published in America. Every recipe is included in Pourledger with the original 1862 text alongside modern measurements.

Recipe Creator

Build your own cocktail recipe in the browser.

Enter ingredients, instructions, and notes. Download as a .whiskey file and import directly into Pourledger with one tap.

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How .whiskey files work

Your data, your format.

Pourledger's .whiskey format is plain JSON. No proprietary binary, no lock-in. Export from the app, share via AirDrop, import on another device. You can even build a recipe here in the browser and import it straight into the app.

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Build Here

Use the Recipe Creator on this site to build a cocktail recipe with any ingredients you like.

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Download

Click Download to get a .whiskey file — a small JSON file containing your recipe.

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Import to App

Open the file on your iPhone. Pourledger opens automatically and imports the recipe. Done.