A NEGRONI, anyone? Or maybe a Jack Rose? Knowing how to make good cocktails is a great party trick and almost always more interesting than serving wine or beer to guests. And even if you are a complete cocktail novice, you can deliver delicious drinks, as long as you have the right app.

Mixology is one of the very best cocktail-making apps out there. It has a database of around 8,000 cocktail recipes, using over 1,000 ingredients, so whatever your taste, the odds are that Mixology can help.

To find out how to make a particular cocktail, you can either search for it by name or find it in a category-based search. (You can find James Bond’s classic drink, vodka martini, under the martinis category, for example.) The app also has a “new and featured” page, and it has a “random drinks” function if you are feeling lucky.

Image A screen grab of "Cocktail Flow."

Any recipe you like can be added to a favorites list for easy access later. Tapping on a listed cocktail takes you to a page showing the necessary ingredients and detailed but clear instructions on how to put the drink together.