Free and Pro
Every feature
Logging, rating, photos, backing up and sharing are free, with no limit on how many drams you keep. Pro is a single purchase through Google Play, not a subscription, and adds the deeper tasting notes, sessions and the numbers behind your shelf.
- Free in every copy of the app
- Pro with the one-off Pro purchase
Adding drams
- Free
Scan a tasting list
Photograph the page, crop to one entry, and the name, flavour profile, cask number, region, cask, age, date, outturn, strength and tasting description are read on the phone.
- Free
Scan a bottle label
The distillery, independent bottler, age statement, strength, cask type and distillation date, as the label states them.
- Free
Add from a shop's page
Paste a bottle's link from any whisky shop, or share the page from your browser. The name, photo, price, distillery, age, strength and tasting notes come with it.
- Free
Type it in
A blank form with distillery suggestions as you type; the region and country fill themselves in.
- Free
Cask numbers know their distillery
35.413 is Glen Moray, G15.42 is Rhosdhu: every published cask code is built in, nothing to look up.
- Pro
Translate a label
A bottle from Japan, Taiwan, Korea, India or anywhere else: its label read and put into English on the phone, over 50 languages offline after a one-off download. Distillery names like 山崎 stay Yamazaki. Anything the phone can't read goes to Google Lens or Google Translate, if you choose.
- Free
"You've had this before"
Scan or paste a dram you've already logged and the app says when you had it, how you rated it and where, and offers to log it as another tasting instead of a second copy.
Your notes
- Free
Stars and notes
A five-star rating and a free-text notes box on every dram, saved as you type.
- Free
Tasting log
Every time you taste a dram: the day, the stars, where and a note, plus an owned bottle's level at the time, so you can see how it changes as it empties.
- Free
Photos
As many photos per dram as you like: the label, the bottle, the glass. Choose which is the cover, swipe through them full screen.
- Free
Where you had it
The bar, festival, distillery or shelf, kept with the dram and grouped on the dashboard.
- Pro
Flavour wheel notes
Nose, palate and finish, descriptors picked from a nine-category wheel, and a flavour radar for each dram.
- Pro
Tasting sessions
The drams you had at the same time as one entry: ranked best first, with notes on the night and a summary to share.
- Pro
Share a session with the group
One person logs the night and sends it round; everyone imports it into their own Dram Notes, ratings and notes included. What you paid and what you own stay private.
- Free
Import a shared session
Open a session a friend sent and its drams join your list, the ones you already have left as they are.
Your shelf
- Free
Your collection
Mark the bottles you've bought, or swipe a card right, and filter the list down to them. Every swipe offers Undo.
- Free
Finished bottles
When a bottle's empty, archive it: out of your collection and its totals, with every note, rating and what you paid kept under Finished. Bought another? One tap puts a full one back.
- Free
Where it's from
Each Scotch region in its own colour, lit on a map of Scotland; a globe marks the country of everything else.
- Pro
Wishlist
Bottles you want, with the price and shop you saw them at, cheapest first. Swipe a card left to add one.
- Pro
Bottle levels and what you paid
Each owned bottle drawn at its level (drag it or tap a quick level), when it was opened and what it cost. The dashboard totals your collection and lists the open bottles.
Finding and comparing
- Free
Search
By name, distillery, place or flavour.
- Free
Sort and filter
Newest, rating, name or region (in sections); all drams, your collection, your wishlist or your finished bottles.
- Free
Similar drams
Each dram lists the others from the same region or with the same flavour profile.
- Free
Choose several
Long-press a card to pick more, then delete them together or add them to a session.
- Pro
Compare
Two drams side by side, the rows that differ highlighted, with both flavour radars.
Dashboard
- Free
Your drams in figures
How many drams, your average rating and how many bottles, each with the small chart it came from; drams by region, distillery and place; a rating histogram.
- Pro
Your taste
Average ratings by region, cask, age and flavour, your whole collection on one flavour radar, and a line on what it says about you.
- Pro
Collection cost
What your bottles cost, as a figure at the top and by region.
- Pro
Photo wall
Every photo of every dram in one grid.
Sharing and backups
- Free
Share as a picture
A card made on the phone: the photo, name, stars, region, the bottle's facts and a line of your notes, ready for a message or a post.
- Free
Share as text
Every detail and note as plain text, to any app.
- Free
Back up and restore
One file with every dram, note, tasting and photo, saved wherever you choose, including Google Drive.
- Pro
Automatic backups
Pick a folder once and a fresh backup is written there daily or weekly; the newest five are kept.
- Pro
Export to a spreadsheet
Every dram, rating and note as a CSV file.
Everywhere
- Free
Private by design
No account, no adverts, no tracking. Scans are read on the phone; nothing is uploaded.
- Free
Home screen widget
Your newest dram and its rating, one tap from the app.
- Free
Light and dark
Follows your phone's theme, and stays readable with large text and display sizes.
Dram Notes is version 1.10.1. What's new lists every release; anything else, ask at dram@wildsitecreations.co.uk.