How it works

The art of ordering well

Six short chapters on how Mixlio learns your taste, reads any menu and finds your drink, and how it gets better every time you go out.

Taste profile

It starts with you, not the menu

No long sign-up quiz. Open Mixlio and scan your first menu straight away. If Mixlio doesn't know your taste yet, it asks a few fun questions, just once.

Nothing about cocktails. Think candy, chocolate, crisps, coffee and a little spice. Then pick the spirits you love, and Mixlio keeps them in mind on every menu you scan after that.

Out comes your own taste profile, and your drinker type. Six types, one of them is you.

Not a single question about cocktails.

  • Asked once, right when you need it
  • About two minutes, no cocktail knowledge needed
  • Your favourite spirits count on every menu
  • Changed your mind? Retake it any time from Profile
Find your drinker type on this site →
An example taste profile
Scan a menu

Snap the menu, that's it

At the bar, open Mixlio and take a photo of the cocktail menu, or pick one from your photos. Mixlio reads every drink on it: the name, the ingredients and the price, even on a long or fancy menu.

Drinks appear one by one as they're read, in a few seconds. Bigger menus take a little longer, and Mixlio tells you it's still working.

One photo. Every drink on the menu, read.

  • 3 free scans to keep, with no time limit
  • A failed scan doesn't count
  • Unknown ingredients get a short, plain explanation
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Scanning a bar menu with Mixlio
Scan
Your matches

Every drink, ranked for you

Each cocktail on the menu gets a match percentage against your profile. Mixlio weighs how sweet, sour and strong the drink is, its style, its base spirit and its ingredients, all against what you like.

Best matchThe one to order tonight
Great match75% and up
Worth a try60% and up

Prefer to browse? Sort the menu by price, sweetest, sourest, booziest or name, and filter it down.

The best drink on the menu, at the top.

A scanned menu with drinks ranked by match
Your matches
Rate what you order

Every rating makes the next menu smarter

Tap I ordered this and the drink goes to My Drinks. Later, tell Mixlio how it went with one of five ratings. This is where Mixlio really learns you: your ratings move your sliders, your styles, and even the spirits and ingredients you like or avoid.

Loved it

Pulls your profile hard towards this drink: its sweetness, strength, style, spirit and ingredients.

Liked it

A gentle nudge in the same direction.

It was OK

Saved to My Drinks, but your profile doesn't move. You didn't take a side.

Not great

Nudges similar drinks a few places down on the next menu.

Hated it

Pushes away harder, but never buries a whole style after one bad night.

One bad night isn't a taste.

  • Recent ratings count more. A rating loses half its weight every six months, because taste changes.
  • One disliked drink is a hint; several are a pattern.
  • Change or remove a rating any time.
My Drinks: rating the cocktails you ordered
My Drinks
Recipes

Loved it? Make it at home

The app has 800+ recipes, all free, with no ads and no limits. You don't need to scan anything to use them.

Find the right oneFilter by taste, family, base spirit, occasion and season. Must include lime? Never include egg? Done.
Make it rightExact measures in ml, cl, oz or parts, for any number of servings, with every step.
Missing a bottle?Each ingredient lists good swaps and how the taste changes.
Make it yoursSave favourites with the heart, write your own notes, and rate the recipe.

800+ recipes. All of them free.

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A recipe with measures, swaps and steps
Recipes
History & My Drinks

Your nights out, remembered

Recent Scans keeps every menu you've scanned, with its top match. Rename a menu ("Friday, rooftop bar"), open it again later, or delete it.

My Drinks is your own cocktail diary: everything you ordered, rated or waiting for a rating. Filter a menu by what you've already logged.

A diary of every good night.

Recent scans with each menu's top match
Recent Scans

No passwords

Sign in with Apple or Google.

Photos stay private

A menu photo is only read for the drinks on it.

Never sold

No ads, and your data is never used for them.

Delete in one tap

Your account and everything in it, from the Profile tab.

Your next menu is already ranked

Free to start: 3 scans, 800+ recipes and your taste profile.