Drinqly

Drinqly is an iOS app for people who want to remember their drinks the way Letterboxd lets people remember movies. It's a drink-agnostic social journal, not a tracker built around one category of beverage, and that distinction sits at the center of how it's positioned. Where an app like Untappd ties its entire identity to beer, or Vivino orients everything around wine and buying more of it, Drinqly is built to hold a cocktail from a speakeasy, a glass of natural wine on a patio, a can of a new seltzer, or a dive-bar whiskey neat, all with the same care. The idea grew out of frustration with existing drink-logging apps feeling narrow and clunky, and the goal was something that treated any drink as worth remembering, not just the ones that fit a single app's niche. The core experience is built around memory rather than consumption. Instead of just logging what you drank and how much, Drinqly pairs a photo of the drink itself with a photo from the night out, so a check-in reads more like a moment than a database entry. The positioning line captures this directly: remember everything about that drink, the taste, the night out, what made it special. It's meant to feel like flipping through a personal record of experiences rather than auditing intake. On the practical side, the app supports a few ways to log depending on how much detail someone wants to capture. Quick Sip is a fast, lightweight log for when someone just wants to note a drink without much ceremony. Full Check-In is the more complete version, pairing the drink photo with a memory photo and letting people build out more context around the moment. Over time, these check-ins accumulate into a Drink Story, a timeline view of someone's drinking history that can surface patterns, like noticing you consistently rate Palomas highly or gravitate toward a particular style of natural wine. Drinqly also layers in some smart discovery and social features. It integrates with Google Places so check-ins can be tied to the actual bar, restaurant, or venue where a drink happened, which helps both with memory-keeping and with building out a picture of favorite spots over time. There's AI-powered menu scanning that can read a drink menu via the phone's camera and pull out options, which cuts down on manual entry when someone is standing at a bar trying to log something quickly. Beyond individual logging, there's a social layer with a friend feed so people can see what others are drinking and where, along with wishlists for drinks or venues someone wants to try, leaderboards, and challenges that add a lighter, gamified layer on top of the core journaling experience. A Plus-tier feature called AI Drink Personality analyzes someone's logging history and generates a kind of taste profile or personality read based on their patterns. The app runs on a freemium model, with a free tier and a paid Plus tier priced at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, handled through RevenueCat. It launched in April 2026 and is currently available in the US only, since the interface is English-only. It was built solo, with AI-assisted development, over about a month, which is notable given the scope of what shipped: full check-in flows, AI menu scanning, social features, and subscription infrastructure all built by one person rather than a team. Beyond the consumer app, there's a B2B arm called Drinqly for Business, aimed at cocktail bars, wine bars, and other experiential drink venues. The pitch there leans on the same core insight as the consumer product: Untappd for Business is beer-centric, which makes it an awkward fit for venues that aren't beer-focused, and Drinqly's drink-agnostic foundation is a more natural match for that segment. The long-term thinking is that the consumer app and the business product can feed each other, with people who log drinks at a venue on the consumer side creating a discovery pipeline that makes the business product more valuable to venues, and venues on the business side giving consumer users more places to check in. In short, Drinqly is trying to be the app people open after a good night out, not the app they check before ordering. It's about capturing the moment a drink was part of, wherever that drink came from.