If you drink the same five or six things on rotation, favorites cut the Add Drink form down to two taps: open the sheet, tap the drink. This tutorial walks through saving your first favorite, using it during a session, editing the details, and reordering the list. Saving and using favorites is a Premium feature.
# Step 1. Open the Favorites manager
Tap the Settings tab, then tap Favorite Drinks in the Favorites section. The screen that opens is called Manage Favorites. If you haven’t saved anything yet, it shows No favorites yet and a + Add Favorite button.
Anyone can open this screen to see how favorites work. On the free tier, the + Add Favorite button carries a PREMIUM badge, and tapping it opens the upgrade sheet.
# Step 2. Save a drink as a favorite
The fastest path is from inside the Add Drink flow. Pick your type, style, brand and size as normal, and adjust the ABV, calories or cost if yours differ from the defaults. Then, instead of the main Log button (for example Log Beer 🍺), tap Log & Add to Favorites ⭐ just below it.
A Save Favorite sheet asks you to give the drink a name, for example “My IPA” (up to 30 characters). Tap Save & Log Drink. The drink is logged into the current session and saved to your favorites, with its size, ABV, calories and cost. Next time, it is waiting at the top of the Add Drink sheet.
Values you save here are the point: editing ABV, calories or cost on an ordinary drink only applies to that one drink, while a favorite remembers them.
You can also create favorites without logging anything: tap + Add Favorite (or + Add New Favorite once you have some) on the Manage Favorites screen. The New Favorite sheet asks for a Favorite Name, then shows the same What are you drinking? and How much? sections as Add Drink, including Custom size. Tap Save Favorite ⭐ to keep it.
# Step 3. Use a favorite during a session
The next time you tap + Add Drink, your favorites sit in a Favorites section, marked with a star, above the numbered sections. Each card shows the drink’s name, size and ABV. Tap one and it’s logged immediately, with the size, ABV, calories and cost you saved: a checkmark flashes on the card and the sheet closes.
That’s two taps total: + Add Drink, then the favorite. No type picker, no size picker. Back on Home, the repeat button then reads + Another with the favorite’s name and a star, for example + Another My IPA 🍺⭐, so the next round is a single tap.
Swipe the Favorites row sideways if you have more than fit on screen. Hold a card for Edit or Delete, or drag it to change its place in the row.
Favorites also reach beyond the Add Drink sheet: they appear on your Apple Watch, and in the favorites widgets (see how to use widgets and Live Activities).
# Step 4. Edit, reorder, or remove
Back on Manage Favorites, every row has a pencil (edit) and a trash can (delete).
- Edit. The pencil opens Edit Favorite, where you can change the name, ABV %, Calories and Cost, then tap Save Changes. The cost is shown in your default currency, and a cost you save is stored in that currency. Changes only affect drinks you log from the favorite from now on; past sessions are not changed. The size and drink type are fixed once saved, so for a different size, save a new favorite.
- Delete. The trash can asks Delete with the favorite’s name, and This favorite will be permanently removed.
- Reorder. The sort chips at the top are Custom, Name, Type, ABV, Size, Cost, Newest and Oldest. With Custom selected, each row has a drag handle; long-press and drag to reorder. Pick any other chip to preview the list that way, then tap Apply This Order to keep it as your custom order.
The order you set here is the order the cards appear on the Add Drink sheet.
That’s the whole favorites loop. Save once, log in two taps thereafter, and tidy the list when your habits change.
# What’s next
Pair favorites with Apple Watch for logging from your wrist: see the Apple Watch tutorial. For the more analytical companion, reading your drinking history covers the patterns those favorites end up creating.