Essential Cocktails Downloads & RevenueEssential Cocktails · App Store
Essential Cocktails is #63 in Food & Drink Paid in South Korea and charting in 12 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026Essential Cocktails update history & changes
Last change · 13 events since 18 Sep 2021Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 12 events in the last 12 months
- 🚀Essential Cocktails: now shown next to Cocktail Manual: Drink Recipes, Cocktail Hobbyist - Recipes, My Bar - Cocktail Recipes +5 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈Essential Cocktails entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · FR
- 📈Essential Cocktails entered the top 100Top Paid · Food & Drink · RU
- 📈Essential Cocktails entered the top 100Top Paid · Food & Drink · US
- 📈Essential Cocktails charting in a new country in 4 chartsChina · Italy · Japan · Saudi Arabia
- 🆕Essential Cocktails first spotted by AppInsider#81 in Top Paid · Food & Drink · Germany
- 🆕Essential Cocktails released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Food & Drink PaidEssential Cocktails at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-10-31. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
Essential Cocktails is a paid iOS app offering over 200 curated cocktail recipes and instructional videos from YouTuber Steve the Bartender, designed for home enthusiasts and professional bartenders. The app holds strong positions in the French Food & Drink paid charts (#3) while maintaining visibility across other major markets like India, Australia, and South Korea, indicating steady international traction despite lower rankings in the US and UK.
Similar apps: Cocktail Flow, Difford's Guide, Punch
Essential Cocktails on the App Store
App details
Essential Cocktails downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| South Korea | Food & DrinkPaid | #63 |
 Japan | Food & DrinkPaid | #146 |
| Germany | Food & DrinkPaid | #80 |
 United Kingdom | Food & DrinkPaid | #95 |
 China | Food & DrinkPaid | #155 |
 India | Food & DrinkPaid | #53 |
 Australia | Food & DrinkPaid | #56 |
 France | Food & DrinkPaid | #79 |
 Canada | Food & DrinkPaid | #83 |
 Brazil | Food & DrinkPaid | #101 |
 United Arab Emirates | Food & DrinkPaid | #72 |
 Saudi Arabia | Food & DrinkPaid | #127 |
Apps near Essential Cocktails on the chart
Food & Drink Paid, around #63.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Essential Cocktails
From the 7 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's integration with Steve the Bartender's video tutorials and its ability to suggest recipes based on available ingredients. While praised for organization and ease of use, some reviewers note that the cocktail database is currently incomplete.
Mostly positive (100% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and being easy to use. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “Outstanding variety absolutely love it”
- Ease of use: “As a viewer of Steve’s YouTube channel, this app is a nice, convenient, and simple reference for the cocktail recipes”
- Useful: “The app still needs some work, but I highly recommend it along with Steve’s book”
About Essential Cocktails
Whether you are an aspiring home bartender or professional behind the bar, either way you'll find Steve's relaxed and charismatic style enjoyable!
Steve the Bartender's YouTube channel currently boasts over 500 cocktail videos with 570,000 subscribers. The videos feature classic cocktail recipes, modern classic drinks, contemporary cocktails and how to videos.
The current release includes over 200 essential cocktail recipes.
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