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Mixel is a recipe app for the home bar. People look elsewhere when they want help at a bar, or recommendations based on their own taste.
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Start with Stirred Art
Stirred Art starts from your taste: it scores a bar menu against what you like and keeps a map of where you drank. Mixel starts from your bottles and shows the recipes they can make.
- You want help choosing from a bar menu.
- You want the app to learn your taste from drinks you rate.
- You want a record of the bars you visit and what you had.
Stirred Art vs Mixel, side by side
4 alternatives to Mixel
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Stirred Art our pick
Stirred Art learns what you like from drinks you rate, then scores any bar menu you photograph against your taste. It keeps a map of the bars you have visited and tells you what the bottles on your shelf can make.
Built for: people who order the same three cocktails and want to branch out, at bars and at home.
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Cocktail Flow
Cocktail Flow presents cocktail recipes with step-by-step guides. You mark the ingredients you have in a cabinet and see what you can make, and browse by base spirit, type, strength and colour.
Built for: people who want well-presented recipes with step-by-step guides.
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Cocktail Party
Cocktail Party shows "all the tasty drinks you can make from the stuff you've got". You check off ingredients and it lists what you can make now, with sensible substitutions such as rye for bourbon. It is bought once, with no adverts.
Built for: people who want a simple recipe app for the home bar, bought once.
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Make Me A Cocktail
Make Me A Cocktail is the app of the recipe site of the same name, with over 3,500 recipes. It reads each step aloud while you mix, scans your shelf with the camera, and has two AI helpers, Cocktail Colin and Cocktail Connie.
Built for: home bartenders who want a big recipe library with hands-free guidance.
At a glance
| App | Built for | Where it runs |
|---|---|---|
| Stirred Art | people who order the same three cocktails and want to branch out, at bars and at home | iPhone and iPad, with the taste model running on the device |
| Mixel | home bartenders who want to know what they can make from their bottles | iPhone and iPad, and Android |
| Cocktail Flow | people who want well-presented recipes with step-by-step guides | iPhone and iPad, on iOS 26 or later |
| Cocktail Party | people who want a simple recipe app for the home bar, bought once | iPhone and iPad |
| Make Me A Cocktail | home bartenders who want a big recipe library with hands-free guidance | iPhone and iPad |
What Mixel is
Mixel answers one question: "What cocktails can you make right now?" You tell it what is in your bar and it shows every drink you can mix from more than 2,600 recipes, with each ingredient drawn in pixel art and an AI bartender called Bart for custom recipes.
How to choose
Start from where you drink. Most cocktail apps are recipe books for the home bar. Stirred Art also works at the bar: it learns your taste, scores the menu in front of you and remembers where you have been, and it still tells you what your shelf can make.
Questions
What is the best alternative to Mixel?
Stirred Art, if you want a taste profile that scores bar menus and remembers the bars you visit. Stirred Art starts from your taste: it scores a bar menu against what you like and keeps a map of where you drank. Mixel starts from your bottles and shows the recipes they can make.
What is better than Mixel?
If you want a taste profile that scores bar menus and remembers the bars you visit, Stirred Art is the better fit. It is built for people who order the same three cocktails and want to branch out, at bars and at home.
Why do people look for Mixel alternatives?
Mixel is a recipe app for the home bar. People look elsewhere when they want help at a bar, or recommendations based on their own taste.
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We make Stirred Art. What we say about the other apps comes from their own pages, read on 11 November 2026: Mixel on the App Store, mixelcocktails.com, Cocktail Flow on the App Store, Cocktail Party on the App Store, Make Me A Cocktail on the App Store. Spotted a mistake? Write to support@stirred.art. Each name belongs to its owner, and Stirred Art is not affiliated with any of them.