Bar Assistant
Manage your home bar while adding your ingredients, searching for cocktails and creating custom cocktail recipes.
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Still maintained? Yes: 113 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v6.10.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Recipe Management: Mealime alternatives.
At a glance
Bar Assistant quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,115
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v6.10.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Bar Assistant
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Bar Assistant is all-in-one solution for managing your home bar. Compared to other recipe management software that usually tries to be more for general use, Bar Assistant is made specifically for managing cocktail recipes. This means that there are a lot of cocktail-oriented features, like ingredient substitutes, first-class ingredients, ABV calculations, unit switching and more."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Bar Assistant scores 92/100, #2 of 11 in Recipe Management: 113 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v6.10.1, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,115 stars add 12.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 7.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
113 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v6.10.1 released yesterday
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.2 / 20
1.1k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 113
- Last 90 days
- 293
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #2 of 11 tools in Recipe Management by health , between Tandoor Recipes (#1) and Tamari (#3) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | v6.10.1 · yesterday |
| Stars | 1,115 |
| Open issues | 15 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | karlomikus/bar-assistant ↗ |
Bar Assistant vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Bar Assistant (Recipe Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tandoor Recipes | 96 | 8.7k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| Bar Assistant (this tool) | 92 | 1.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| Tamari | 89 | 145 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| CookCLI | 83 | 1.4k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| RecipeSage | 82 | 985 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| ManageMeals | 58 | 63 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
Bar Assistant: common questions
Is Bar Assistant still maintained?
Bar Assistant had 113 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v6.10.1, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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