FEATURES OF THE CIGARRO CIGAR TRACKER
Every feature, explained plainly.
Cigarro is a web app for tracking and reviewing premium cigars. The Cigarro Method is its review-by-thirds framework, which records how a cigar changes from the first third to the last. Hugh Ashby is the concierge persona of Cigarro, and he writes the Weekly Ember. This page sets out what the cigar tracker actually does today: the humidor, the reviews, the Cigar Signature, the Lounge, the catalogue, and the import and export that let your collection leave whenever you please. Nothing here is a roadmap item. If it is on this page, you can use it this evening.
01What is Cigarro
A cigar tracker with a memory.
Cigarro is a cigar tracker and digital humidor that runs in a browser. It keeps a record of what you own, what you have smoked, and what each cigar actually tasted like, third by third. It is a web app and a PWA, so you sign in at app.cigarroapp.com and pin it to the home screen of whatever you carry. There is no App Store listing and no download. If you are weighing up the field first, we wrote an honest look at the best cigar apps, our own included.
02The humidor
Your humidor, properly kept.
One humidor, kept the way you would keep a real one. Every entry carries quantity, price per cigar, wrapper, binder, filler, ring gauge, length, purchase date and notes, and the app tracks how long each cigar has been resting so you know when a box has settled. Add from the verified catalogue by typing a few letters and drilling into a line’s sizes, or add by free text when the catalogue has not caught up yet. If you are still arranging the physical box, our guide to organising a humidor pairs with this, and the digital humidor guide covers the rest.
- Capacity by tier: 30 cigars on Pocket, 200 on Desk, 750 on Cabinet, 2,000 on Walk-in, unlimited on Private Reserve
- Wrapper, binder, filler, ring gauge and length recorded on every entry
- Rest tracking, so a cigar shows how long it has been resting and when it is ready
- Sort and filter your shelf, search the whole catalogue, and keep a wishlist of what you want to try
- Prices shown in the currency you choose, as labels only, never converted
03The Method and the Signature
Smoke it in thirds. Chart what changes.
The Cigarro Method is a review-by-thirds framework. You record the first third, the second third and the final third separately, because a cigar rarely finishes the way it starts. Each third takes nine readings, along with burn line, draw, smoke output and any correction you had to make, and a flavour picker sits beside them with room for flavours of your own. The full framework is set out in the Cigarro Method.
The Cigar Signature
Two line plots across the three thirds, taste and performance, with a mouthfeel strip beneath. Every finished review carries one.
TastePerformance
The signature is drawn from your own readings, and the same chart appears on a cigar’s community page, averaged across everyone who has reviewed it. It travels on the share card when you send a review to a friend.
- Nine readings per third: strength, body, retrohale, mouthfeel, harshness, sweetness, bitterness, savouriness and spice
- Burn line, draw, smoke output and any correction, recorded per third
- A flavour picker per third, with room for flavours you add yourself
- Quick Log: a thirty-second entry when you would rather smoke than take notes
- A photo, per-third notes, and a flavour wheel on the finished review
- Unlimited reviews on every tier, the free one included
04The Lounge
The room next door.
The Lounge is Cigarro’s member feed, and it is chronological rather than ranked. Post what you are smoking with up to five photos, attach one of your own reviews, and let the room answer. Members give nods, leave comments, reply once, and mention each other by handle. The public side of it sits at app.cigarroapp.com/discover, readable without an account.
- Posts with up to five photos, a collage in the feed and a carousel in the detail view
- Nods, comments with a photo, one level of replies, and comment likes
- Mentions by handle, with autocomplete, and a following view
- Public member pages and shared reviews, each with their own address
- A community page for every cigar, gathering every public review of it
- Share cards drawn for you when you share a review, a post or a cigar
05The catalogue
A catalogue worth typing into.
The verified catalogue holds 211 brands, 2,173 lines and 7,118 sizes, and you can browse it at app.cigarroapp.com/cigars. Typing a few letters is usually enough; when a cigar is genuinely missing you add it as free text and it goes to our intake queue rather than nowhere.
- 211 brands, 2,173 lines and 7,118 sizes, verified rather than crowd-typed
- Pick-first typeahead, then drill into a line to choose the size in your hand
- Free text when the catalogue does not have it, logged for review
- Similar cigars worked out from catalogue facts: house, strength, wrapper, country, binder and filler. Not AI, and every suggestion can say why it is there
06Your data is yours
It arrives easily. It leaves with you.
If you already keep a spreadsheet, bring it. The importer at app.cigarroapp.com/humidor/import takes a CSV or TSV file, or a table pasted straight out of a spreadsheet, works out the delimiter for itself, and shows you a column mapper and a review step before anything is written. Nothing is silently dropped: every row you hand it ends in one stated outcome, imported, skipped, unusable with the reason, blocked by your plan cap, or failed with the error. A sheet is taken 5,000 rows at a time, and a picked file up to 5MB.
The file itself never leaves your device. Your browser reads and parses it locally, and only the finished rows are sent, so there is no upload endpoint and no file sitting on a server. Nothing inside a spreadsheet can run: it is read as plain text, formulas are stored as inert text, and unknown column headings map to skip rather than guessing at a field.
- Import by file or by paste, with header matching, a column mapper and a review-before-commit step
- Limits of 5,000 rows a sheet and 5MB a file, refused in plain English before anything is read
- Humidor export to CSV, fourteen columns, which imports straight back unchanged
- A full JSON export of everything: profile, humidor, reviews, posts, comments, settings
- Both exports on every tier, the free one included
07Also included
The rest of it, quietly.
The small things that make the app worth keeping open. If you are comparing us against a paper journal or another app, the cigar journal comparison lays out the difference without any theatre.
- The Weekly Ember, Hugh Ashby's Monday letter, with an archive you can read without joining
- An in-app notification inbox, and web push for comments, replies, follows and mentions
- Write to the house: one private thread, answered by a real person. Not live chat, and no instant-reply promise
- Milestones for cigars logged, wrappers tried, countries tried and a cigar rested ninety days
- Install it on any device as a PWA, from the browser you already use. No App Store, no download
- No sponsored cigars and no advertising anywhere in the app
08Questions
Asked often.
Is Cigarro free?
There is a free tier, Pocket Humidor, at $0 CAD. It holds thirty unique cigars and carries unlimited reviews, the full Cigarro Method, the Lounge, import and export. Paid tiers add capacity and nothing else, from $4.99 to $29.99 CAD a month. The pricing page sets out all five.
Does Cigarro work on iPhone and Android?
Yes, through the browser. Cigarro is a web app, so it runs on an iPhone, an Android phone, a tablet or a desktop without a download, and you can pin it to your home screen where it behaves like any other app. There is no App Store or Play Store listing, and we are not planning one.
Can I import my spreadsheet?
Yes. Upload a CSV or TSV file, or paste a table straight out of a spreadsheet, and the importer works out the delimiter, matches your column names against its own, and shows you a mapper and a review step before anything is saved. It takes 5,000 rows a sheet and 5MB a file. The file is read in your browser and never uploaded.
Is there a barcode scanner?
No, and we would rather say so plainly. Cigar boxes and single sticks are not barcoded in any way that would help, so a scanner would be theatre. Typing three or four letters into the catalogue of 211 brands is quicker in practice, and free text covers anything the catalogue has not got yet.
Can I keep my reviews private?
Yes. Nothing you write is public until you choose to share it. Sharing a review gives it its own address, and unsharing takes it down again. One switch on your profile controls whether your name appears in public places at all, and photographs are re-encoded on your device so location data never leaves it.
How many cigars can I store?
Thirty unique cigars on the free Pocket Humidor, 200 on Desk, 750 on Cabinet, 2,000 on Walk-in, and unlimited on Private Reserve. An entry is one blend rather than one stick, so ten of the same cigar is a single entry with a quantity of ten. Reviews are unlimited on every tier.
Open it, log one.
The free tier asks nothing of you but an email address. Log the cigar in your hand this evening and see whether the Method suits you.