Open Bar
Hand your guests the menu.
Open Bar turns your shelf into a live menu your guests can read on their own phones — no app, no account, no asking what you can make.
How it works Four steps
1 Stock your bar in the app Mark what's on your shelf. The app already knows which of the 255 drinks each bottle unlocks.
2 Share one link Generate a barnecessities.app/bar link and drop it in the group chat. No installs on their end.
3 Guests see what's pourable They open it on any phone and get the live list — cocktails and mocktails — your bar can make right now.
4 It keeps up with the night Mark a bottle empty and the menu updates within 30 seconds. Links expire after 24 hours — extend any time.
Principles Why it's built this way
Guests always see mocktails
Whatever you pour, the alcohol-free drinks always show — so anyone not drinking can find something without having to ask.
No app for guests
The link opens in any browser — no install, no account. Your guests tap it and they're reading the same list you are.
Live, not a snapshot
The menu reflects your shelf as it stands, refreshing automatically. Run out of lime and the daiquiri quietly steps off the list.
Every drink, sourced
Tap any drink for its full recipe — each one checked against a printed reference, the way it's actually made.
Open Bar lives in the app.
The web shows the menu. Building your bar, the Bar Builder, and Jig the AI bartender all live in Bar Necessities for iOS.
