Everything inside.

Your collection — captured, tracked, retrievable.

Scan a bottle. Snap the label. The app pulls the distillery file, mash bill, and lineage automatically.

Manual entry. When a scan can’t find it, type it in. The history fills in around it.

Bulk research. Add a stack of bottles at once. The research catches up over the next few minutes.

Photo capture per bottle. Front, back, label detail. Cloud-stored, retrievable on any device.

Multi-device sync. Phone for scanning, tablet for reading, desktop for organizing. All three stay in step.

Bottle status arc. Sealed → open → empty → vaulted → gifted. The journey is recorded.

Pour counts. Each pour increments. The bottle’s life shows in the data.

Fill level slider. Set the level after a pour. The app keeps the math.

Distillery file. Mash bill, founder story, regional context, age statement. Read it next to the glass.

Lineage tracking. When a release year matters — and it often does — the app knows.

Logbook. Every pour, every Pour Print, every Slow Tasting in chronological order.

Duplicate detection. Adding a bottle you already own? The app catches it before the scan completes.

Bottle silhouettes & expression images. Auto-generated visuals when manufacturer art isn’t available, so every bottle has a recognizable face in the grid.

Friend Rickhouse view. Peek at a friend’s shelf (with their permission). See what they’re pouring without seeing what they’re hiding.

Your palate — named in your own words.

Slow Tasting wizard. Six steps, one pour, no rush. Nose, palate, finish, the words, the slow burn, the conclusion. The tasting becomes a practice instead of a checklist.

Tasting Entry. Quick log when you don’t want the full ritual. Two minutes, three lines, done.

Location Tasting. Tasting at a bar, restaurant, or distillery. The location gets recorded so you remember where the moment happened.

Pour Print. The per-pour palate signature. Texture and flavor descriptors mapped to a personal vocabulary.

Palate Print. The long-term portrait. Sharpens with every Pour Print you write. Ten pours in, the shape starts to show. Fifty in, it reads like a fingerprint.

Palate Print quiz. The initial seed. Twelve questions to set the early shape so the radar isn’t empty from day one.

Palate Print evolution. Your seed shape and your measured shape blend over time. Zero tastings, the chart is all your guess. Thirty tastings in, it’s all your data. The crossfade is visible right below the chart so you always know what you’re looking at.

Palate Retrospective. Time-based evolution view. The first ten pours next to the next forty next to the most recent. Watch the shape drift.

Compare Two Bottles. Pick two from the Rickhouse. Flavor radars overlay, mash bills sit side-by-side, your previous tastings show on each.

Compare Pours. Two tastings of the same bottle, six months apart. Tells you whether the bottle changed or your palate did.

Aroma Library. A reference catalog of the smells bourbon throws — oak, cherry, leather, smoke, the rest. Browse to teach the nose before the tongue meets them.

Aroma Flashcards. Quick-recall practice. Five minutes a day keeps the vocabulary sharp.

Aroma Guided Hints. Optional prompts during a Slow Tasting. Off by default. Turn on when you want the training wheels.

Flavor Radar (per bottle). A bottle’s distillery-described, reviewer-noticed, and your-observed profiles overlaid on one chart.

Descriptor Tree. The vocabulary itself — organized by sense, by family, by intensity. Browse to find the word you don’t have yet.

Learning — in plain English, grounded in your glass.

The Cut Daily. Five minutes a day. What’s moving in American whiskey, with no jargon and no gatekeeping. Free tier.

AWIB Daily. Bourbon Steward only. The American Whiskey Industry Brief. The deeper daily read no other app is publishing. Monday through Friday.

AWIB Weekly Roll-Up. Bourbon Steward only. Saturday or Sunday. The bigger stories behind the week’s daily threads.

Tasting Room classes. Short structured lessons — mash bills, finishes, char levels, why proof matters. Every concept ties back to your glass.

Class catalog. The full course list. Mash Bill series, Proof series, Brand series, Whiskey Map series.

Class prerequisites. Some classes layer. “Before you take Why Glass Shape Matters, read the AWIB on aroma compounds.” Reading paths are built in.

Reading progress. Per-article tracking. Pick up where you left off.

Cut Reader. The reading view for daily Cut entries. Designed for the five-minute morning.

AWIB Reader. Bourbon Steward only. The reading view for deeper articles. Long-form, comfortable typography, no ads.

Behind-the-podcast notes. Episode show notes embedded. What didn’t make air, follow-up reading, related bottles.

Heard on the Podcast badge. A small mark on bottle detail screens when an episode covered it. Tap to jump to the relevant Cut Daily reader.

The hunt — with a calendar instead of chaos.

Allocation Calendar. What’s dropping where, region by region, week by week. One screen instead of four browser tabs.

Chase List Curate. Build the list of bottles you’re hunting. Edit anytime.

Chase List Viewer. Browse your list. See which bottles have been spotted, which are still cold, which friends have sighted them. (Stewards also see which AWIB threads mention each bottle.)

Find Chase List. Browse what your friends are hunting. See the overlaps. Trade tips.

Found-It flag. When a Chase List bottle appears — in a friend’s sighting, a store check, an AWIB release note — the app surfaces it.

Chase AWIB Mentions. Bourbon Steward only. The AWIB threads relevant to your list, surfaced when you open the chase view.

Chase Destination. Where the bottle’s likely to be. Region, retailer pattern, the timing windows.

Share Sighting. Spotted something a friend was hunting? Two taps to flag it for them.

Region-based filtering. Your alerts narrow to your state, your trail, your circle.

Alert preferences. Get pinged for tier-one chases, mute the rest. Quiet hours respected.

Handshakes, gifts, friends. Less alone. More signal.

Handshakes Setup. Pick the bottle. Add a note. Send a small pour to a friend. Both Logbooks track it.

Handshakes Reply. Receive a Handshake. Add your tasting notes. The exchange becomes a moment.

Handshakes Inbox. Every Handshake ever, organized by friend, by bottle, by date.

Gift a Tasting (Setup). Send a whole bottle wrapped in a guided first pour. The recipient walks nose, palate, finish with Franklin pouring alongside.

Gift Recipient flow. The recipient’s experience. Open the gift. Pour with Franklin. Log the tasting.

Friends. Pin privately — no notifications, no follower counts. Mutual pins unlock more.

Friend Rickhouse (read-only view). See what a friend has open right now. With permission, see deeper.

Tasting Circles. Small groups for shared tastings, group chats, monthly themes.

Share a Pour Chooser. Pick which pour to share. The app suggests the ones that recently surprised you.

Share Tasting Setup. Hosting a tasting? Set it up — bottles, format, what each guest tastes.

Shared Tasting Host. Run the night. Trigger reveals. Capture group notes.

Shared Tasting Guest. Join from your phone. Taste, note, reveal at the host’s lead.

Events — festivals, flights, tasting nights.

Festivals Home. The festivals tab. Upcoming events with dates, locations, and what’s expected to be poured.

Festival Board. At the festival. What’s pouring at which booth. Real-time crowd sourcing.

Flight Board. A tasting flight in real time. The bottles, the order, who’s poured what.

Flight Setup. Design a flight before you start. Pick the bottles, set the order, decide what to capture per pour.

Tasting Night Setup. Hosting at home. Pick the bottles, design the flight, invite the guests, decide whether to reveal labels at the end.

Tasting Night Pour. The pour-by-pour flow. Each glass logged. Each guest noting privately.

Tasting Night Reveal. The end-of-night unveiling. The bottles revealed. The notes compared.

Out & About. A lighter location-based mode. At a bar, scan what you’re drinking, log the bottle, save the moment.

The voice built into the app. Calm. Observant. Doesn’t sell.

Franklin voice library. Fifteen recorded clips that fire at the right moments. Not a chatbot. A scripted voice that knows when to speak.

Franklin Coach Sheet. Tap the seal anytime. Get a quick coach piece — what to notice next, what your data suggests, what’s worth pouring tonight.

First-scan trigger. The first time you scan a bottle, Franklin shows up. Brief. Welcoming. Then he steps aside.

First-bottle trigger. First bottle saved to the Rickhouse. Franklin marks the moment.

First-open / First-empty triggers. Cracking your first bottle. Finishing your first bottle. Both get a small note.

Milestone triggers. At 5 bottles, at 10 bottles. Franklin notices the shape your shelf is taking.

Low-fill nudge. When an open bottle drops below 25% fill, Franklin mentions it. Once. Not every reload.

Welcome-back trigger. Returning after seven or more quiet days. Franklin’s first words on your way back in.

Franklin Help Overlay. An optional sheet that explains what Franklin does and doesn’t do. Read it once, tuck it away.

Silence Franklin. A single setting. If the voice isn’t what you want today, mute it. Triggers still fire silently — text only.

Settings, profile, sync, export, the parts that keep the rest running.

Settings. Notification preferences, quiet hours, voice toggles, language, theme. One screen, well organized.

Profile. Your handle, your photo, your tier badge. The face you show in shared tastings.

Sign In / Auth. Email or device-only. The Rickhouse lives on the device first, syncs second.

Onboarding. The welcome flow. Brief, hospitality-coded, never demanding. Skip to the app anytime.

Quick Setup. Five minutes to a populated Rickhouse if you want a head-start. Skip if you’d rather start with a single bottle.

Activity Feed. A read-only stream of what’s happened — pours, scans, Pour Prints, Handshakes, milestones. Your bourbon journal in one column.

Decide on Bottle. The Tonight surface. One question — what kind of evening — and the app suggests the right pour from your Rickhouse.

Compare Tiers. An honest side-by-side. What Free gives you, what Bourbon Enthusiast adds, what Bourbon Steward unlocks. No hidden gates.

Backup & Export. Cloud backup automatic. Manual JSON export anytime. The whole Rickhouse on demand, for insurance or estate or a friend’s spreadsheet.

Distillery DB user contributions. Bourbon Stewards can opt in to add to the shared distillery database. Privacy-protected — only factual fields, never your personal notes.