Cigar journal app · iPhone
Ligero is a cigar tasting journal for people who already know their way around a cigar. The feed is the layer on top: follow whoever is worth reading, and decide tasting by tasting what gets published.
No tutorials, no glossary, no beginner hand-holding. You photograph the band, the app reads it, and you write the tasting notes you would have written anyway — the whole entry is one screen and takes less time than the first third.
Photograph the band and the name, the format, the wrapper and the origin fill themselves in. What is left for you is a score out of ten and a couple of sentences. Save, and it closes — no form, no tabs, nothing to configure while the cigar is burning.
Cigars go on the shelf as lots, with the date they arrived: just arrived, resting, ready at sixty days, and flagged once one has been sitting for two years. That is your humidor inventory kept by lot and by date instead of by memory — a cigar collection tracker that also knows what is ready. The rotation queue says which to smoke first, home, travel and what is laid down to age stay in separate humidors, and the widget shows what is ready without opening the app.
Four questions and it picks from what is actually rested in your humidor, using how you scored things before. It also reads bands and finds close matches to a cigar you rated highly. This is how an entry starts, so it is not a side feature: the free plan carries five sommelier requests a week.
Sign in once and your entries, lots and humidors follow you to the second phone. The journal opens and works with no signal at all — the server is a second copy, never the owner — and nothing reaches the feed until you publish it, one tasting at a time.
Everything social is free and stays free: the feed, following, publishing, comments, the page for one cigar. Two things are metered, because those two cost money on every use.
A band scan is how an entry starts, so five requests a week is also the free ceiling on new entries. Better to know that before you install than after.
One feed of published tastings, and the people behind them. Follow whoever is worth reading — no invitations, no waiting for approval. What you publish is a decision you make once per tasting, and never publishing anything is a perfectly normal way to be here.
Open anyone’s profile and see what they actually keep on the shelf and how long it has been resting. Yours works the same way — the shelf is part of the profile, so keep that in mind before you fill it in.
A review here is simply a tasting you decided to share. The cigar and the score come from the entry you already wrote — you add a verdict in your own words and, if you like, “would buy it again”. The band on the card is the shared emblem of that brand, not a photograph of yours.
A review can be liked, disliked and answered in the comments. It can also be reported, like any profile or comment — and anyone can be blocked, which works both ways and takes effect at once.
Every published review lands on the card of that cigar. Open it and you get the average across everyone who published one, how many people have actually smoked it, what each of them wrote — and whether one is already resting on your own shelf. That last line is the one that decides a purchase.
9 / 10 · 2 people smoked it · 6 in your humidor, resting 3 months
Sign in with Apple, fill in a name and a photo, and you are in. Nobody approves you and nothing is gated behind an invitation.
Search by name, or open the profile of anyone whose review you liked. Following takes one tap and needs nobody’s permission.
Recommended shows everything published in the app. Following shows only the people you chose. Switch between them at the top of the screen.
Nothing is published until you open that entry and send it. Read for a year and publish nothing — that is a normal way to use this.
The journal stays private: nothing is published on its own, and no entry of yours can be opened by anybody else. Publishing is a separate decision, taken one tasting at a time, and it is always yours.
Cigars plus an open platform is a combination that goes wrong quickly, so the rules are short and they are enforced. 17+ only. No selling, trading or passing tobacco between people — ever, in any form. Nothing abusive, about anyone. Every profile, review and comment can be reported, anyone can be blocked, and reports are acted on within 24 hours — by us, because there is nobody else between the feed and whoever wants to spoil it.
Get started
Ligero is an iPhone app — iOS 17 and up, in thirteen languages. Sign in with Apple is the only way in, and the app asks for it before anything else: there is no password anywhere in the system. Fill in a name, a photo and a region, and nobody has to approve you.
