How Dashed Works

The short version, with a few honest notes

Most cocktail recipes you encounter live somewhere awkward: a blog post you'll never find again, an Instagram caption you'll lose to the algorithm, a screenshot in a folder of four thousand other screenshots. Dashed exists because that drove me a little crazy.

Here's what the app actually does.

You find a cocktail somewhere.

A blog. A bartender's Instagram reel. A photo of a cocktail menu. A book page a friend texted you.

You share it to Dashed.

iOS share sheet. Pick Dashed. That's it.

Dashed gets it right (usually).

Most of the time the extraction is clean. Sometimes it isn't. Cocktail recipes in the wild are messy. Good news, you can edit it.

You save it to your library.

Now it's a real recipe in your collection. Tag it. Group it. Note the time you subbed rye for bourbon.

My Bar tells you what you can make.

Tell Dashed what's on your shelf. Every recipe gets a little tag: you can make this one, missing two, or one substitution away.

What Dashed isn't

Dashed is a personal cocktail library on your phone. It is not:

A social network — your library is private
A recipe aggregator — Dashed doesn't republish anything
A scraping bot — it only ever fetches cocktails you specifically share