Nightjar app icon: a gold nightjar in flight on a deep dusk blue ground

You already decided
to cut back.
Now see the pattern.

A private drink log for people who want an honest record, not a coach.

Download Nightjar on the App Store

iPhone and iPad, iOS 18 or later. No account. No sign-up.

What the other trackers cannot tell you

Your heavier nights have something in common

Most apps hand you a number and leave you to explain it. Nightjar reads your own log back to you and names what the heavy days share: a weekday, a place, a person, an occasion, a mood.

Fridays at The Anchor with Marco

4.8
1.0

4.8 on average, against 1.0 on your other days. 8 days logged.

It stays quiet until the numbers support it, and it never claims one thing caused another. These are things that turn up together in your log. That is all they are.

The Patterns screen, showing a card that reads Fridays at The Anchor with Marco, 4.8 against 1.0 on other days

A look inside

Built for the way you actually drink

One tap when you pour. The exact pour, not the nearest preset. And a line about why, for the version of you reading this back in six weeks.

The Today screen with drink presets laid out in a grid and tonight's drinks listed below
One tap to logFrom Today, the Home Screen widget or a Lock Screen control.
The drink editor with fields for exact volume in fluid ounces and ABV to one decimal place
The exact pourA 4.5 oz cocktail is 4.5 oz, not the nearest preset.
A day's detail screen showing its drinks with timestamps, a written note and tags for people and place
The reason attachedOne note and a few tags per day: who, where, what, how you felt.
A month calendar with each day coloured green, amber or red against the user's own weekly limit
Your limit, not a standard oneEvery day coloured against the weekly limit you set.

What you get

An accurate record you control

Nightjar asks nothing of you beyond the drink you just poured. No account, no streak to protect, no daily lesson.

Exact

Volume and strength, to the decimal

Set the pour in fluid ounces or millilitres and the ABV to one decimal. Nightjar works out the standard drinks in US 14 g, metric 10 g or UK 8 g units.

In the moment

Every drink keeps its own time

Log as you go instead of reconstructing the evening at midnight. A night reads back as a night, not as a lump sum.

Your words

Presets you name yourself

Add, edit, reorder and delete your own drinks, so "Old Fashioned" says more than "Spirit, 1.0" will a month from now. Renaming one never rewrites your history.

Private

No account, no server of ours

Your log lives on your phone and backs up to your own private iCloud, which you can switch off in the Settings app. Face ID or your passcode can lock the app, and the Home Screen icon says Nightjar and nothing else.

Honest

Numbers that say what they count

Streaks, dry days, money spent and calories, each with a plain explanation of what it leaves out. An in-app FAQ answers eighteen questions, including the awkward ones.

Yours to keep

Export any time

Every drink to CSV whenever you want, and to Apple Health if you choose. Nothing about your log is locked inside the app.

One purchase

$24.99

Once. No subscription, no renewal, no tiers.

  • Logging, notes, tags and the calendar are free, forever.
  • Your whole history stays free to read and edit, however far back you scroll. Nightjar will never put your own record behind a paywall.
  • The one thing you buy is Patterns, the reading of your log.
Download Nightjar on the App Store