Find a cocktail

The Home tab is the front door to Sakaba’s 1,000 recipes. Scroll down from the cocktail of the day to browse by taste, by collection or by spirit, then narrow any list with the strength bar and the filter menu.

What’s on Home

From top to bottom:

1. Cocktail of the day. One drink picked for the day, with its method and strength. Tap it to open the recipe. Below it, Surprise me picks a drink for you; see Shake to mix.
2. Your bar. A row that changes with your bar. With nothing ticked it reads Stock your bar and takes you to My Bar to add bottles. Once you’ve ticked some, it reads Ready in your bar with how many drinks you can make, or Almost there if you need a few more bottles. When some of those drinks need Plus, it shows two numbers, such as “62 cocktails — 17 available”: everything your bar can make, then how many of those you can open. See What can I make.
3. By taste. Sour, Sweet, Bitter, Boozy and Balanced each open a list of drinks with that profile.
4. Collections. Curated shelves like Modern Classics, Tiki and Brunch, led by one that changes with the season. See Collections and seasonal shelves.
5. The spirit grid. All cocktails first, then the 15 spirits from Gin to Non-Alcoholic, each with a count.
6. Bar basics. Glassware, techniques, garnishes and a glossary. See Bar basics.

A spirit’s list includes every recipe that uses that spirit, not only the ones filed under it. A Long Island Iced Tea, for example, appears under several spirits, so the counts on the grid add up to more than 1,000.

Read a list

Each row shows the drink’s name and its method and strength, such as “Shaken · Strong”. In All cocktails the row leads with the spirit instead. A few extra marks can appear:

• A rating with a star, such as “4.5 ★”: the average of your own journal ratings for that drink.
• A filled heart: it’s one of your favorites.
• A ✨ sparkle: the recipe needs Sakaba Plus.

Tap a row to open the recipe. Tapping a ✨ recipe without Plus opens a small Recipe is part of Sakaba Plus card with an Unlock with Plus button instead. See Free vs. Plus.

Narrow a list

Every list (a spirit, All cocktails, a taste, a collection) has the same tools.

• Strength bar. At the top: All, Light, Medium, Strong. Only the strengths present in that list appear.
• Filter menu. The button with three lines at the bottom left. It holds:
  • Sort: Name, Highest rated (your journal ratings, unrated last) or Closest to ready (fewest bottles missing from your bar). Spirit and collection lists also offer Default, their own curated order.
  • Method: Built, Shaken, Stirred, Muddled, Blended. Pick one or several. It appears when the list has more than one method.
  • Zero-proof only, Free recipes only and My recipes only. Each appears only when the list mixes both kinds; Free recipes only appears only without Plus.
  • Clear filters, once a filter is on.
• Search. The Search cocktails field searches just this list. It sits at the bottom on iOS 26 and later and at the top on earlier versions. See Search tips.

A small dot on the filter button means a filter is on. If nothing is left, the list says No matches and offers Clear filters.

Preview without opening

Touch and hold a row to see a preview card with the drink’s picture and up to six ingredients with amounts. The menu under it has Add to favorites (or Remove from favorites) and Open. For a ✨ recipe the preview shows only its short description, and Open becomes Unlock with Plus. On your own recipes, Delete cocktail is there too.

Good to know

• Sort is remembered; filters aren’t. Your sort choice stays the next time you open that kind of list. Strength, method and the other filters reset when you leave it.
• Searching overrides the sort. While you type, results are ordered by how well they match.
• Add your own. The + button at the bottom of a spirit list, All cocktails or a taste list starts a new recipe. Collections don’t have one. See Create your own recipe.

Questions? Write to sakabaapp@proton.me.