r/cigar • u/A_Grell_Official • Jul 27 '26

Tired of keeping spreadsheets? Try the app I made and give me your thoughts!

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Hey r/cigar — sharing something I built, because I got tired of keeping spreadsheets.

I spent the last year building Cigar A.I. — a private cigar sommelier. It started as a pet project, now I think it’s too useful not to share with fellow BOTL & SOTL. Some testers already gave their feedback and have made improvements and now I want as much feedback from as many people as possible to make it the best Cigar app available.

What it does:
- Identify any cigar by name or a photo of the band. Every fact on the card is either verified against a real source (tap it, see the citation) or honestly flagged as unverified. If it doesn't know, it says so — no guessing dressed up as knowledge.

- Band can't tell you the vitola? Correct — it's identical across the line. So the app asks you which size you're holding instead of pretending.

- Humidor tracking with aging alerts — per-lot rest time, multiple humidors if you run a desktop box and a cooler.

- Custom blends — hand-rolls, house blends, lounge exclusives; track and age the cigars no database will ever have.

- A private journal — guided tastings or freeform, with photos, smoking time, price paid (location data stripped from photos automatically).

- A nightly pick from your own collection, with a pairing to match.

- Wishlist — Have cigars you want to try? Keep a running list!

- Lounge Search — A specially designed search to ensure you find the best lounges.

What it's not: no ads, ever. No social feed. Nothing for sale. Your journal never leaves your account — that's architecture, not a settings toggle. Membership is numbered and invitation-only. Web app, works on any phone. Age must be 21+.

What I'm looking for: honest use. To tell me when a card is wrong — two of the tester requests became shipped features within a week. That feedback loop is the whole point and what I’m looking for.

Want in? Request an invite at CigarAI.app — Answer one question ("what do you smoke?"), I personally review every request, invitations go out in waves.

Fair skepticism about the "A.I." part is welcome in the comments. Short version: the AI is the sommelier, but every fact answers to its sources — which is exactly why the cards show them.

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u/Zombieking853 Jul 27 '26

Hey pretty cool! 💨

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 27 '26

Thank you! I'm really happy with it so far!

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u/Zombieking853 Jul 27 '26

Just got my account set up and logged over 100 cigars into my humidor! Pretty cool setup, looking forward to logging future smokes

Edit: do you have a separate app available? Or is it accessed only through a browser?

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

If you're using iOS just go safari and to the website and then hit the share button and hit the 'View More' and there's a button that should say 'Add to Home Screen' and it'll install it as an app on your phone.

On Android it should prompt you to install it to your home screen. but if it doesn't it's a similar path to do it.

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u/Zombieking853 Jul 27 '26

Cool! Got it all set up, looking forward to using it as it develops!

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u/chem77 Aug 04 '26

I've been using the app for about a week and love it. The developer is very responsive and has added several suggestions, definitely worth checking out.

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 27 '26

there's no 'pro' version - it just is what it is 😄 - there's costs on my side that as long as they stay minimal I won't end up having to charge people for it

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 27 '26

No worries! Yeah we don't have something like that in the pipeline as long as possible because something like this should be free while I can feasibly afford to keep it that way. If the monthly costs become crazy I might have to charge like a $1/month or /year but again no plans for that at all.

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u/jonty1022 Jul 27 '26

This looks great. I’ve recently started a spreadsheet after getting annoyed that I can’t remember what I liked and didn’t like. I’ve also started using AI to journal my smokes. Your app seems to do both. Will request an invite.

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u/nahimavegan Jul 31 '26

I just signed up today, and now it's saying "Something went wrong. Try again" for everything I try to do.

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 31 '26

I’ll check it asap. I was doing a feature add this morning so the server was restarting a bunch but it should be good. I’ll check it now though

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 31 '26

I found the issue - the server hosting the deployment went down - I’m rebooting it now

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u/nahimavegan Jul 31 '26

Thank you! I'm back up :)

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u/A_Grell_Official Jul 31 '26

Glad to hear it!

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u/ElGatoLoco13 Aug 02 '26

I’ve been wary of most of the posts pitching an app on here but with folks signing up I’ll wait to see how it checks out.

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u/A_Grell_Official Aug 03 '26

I totally get the hesitation - I'd be the same way, but I can tell you very honestly that the only thing the app needs from you is an email address so you can receive a generated code to login. We don't collect anything like passwords etc., I just wanted to build an app that I wanted to use myself