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Find & Explore Discover · Radar · Tap Roulette · Venues
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Discover
Surface venues you've never visited. Discover searches nearby pubs and bars and shows rich cards with photos, ratings, and live venue details. Add any discovery to your PINtPOINT list with one tap.
📍 Configurable Radius
Search within a range that suits you — from a short local wander to a wider destination search.
🟢 Open Now Badges
Each discovered venue shows whether it's currently open or closed, plus its Google rating and review count.
🔗 Find on Untappd
Tap to search for any discovered venue on Untappd and check their tap list before adding to PINtPOINT.
🍻 Crawl from Discoveries
Found a cluster of interesting places? Build a pub crawl directly from your discovered venues.
Radar
A live radar sweeps your surroundings and plots nearby venues as colour-coded blips. Tap a blip to lock on — the radar transforms into a live compass pointing you directly at your chosen pub, with real-time distance and bearing.
🔒 Lock-on Navigation
Tap any blip to lock on. The display shows bearing, distance, and a compass needle that updates as you move and turn.
🔄 Two Display Modes
Nearest venues shows the closest pubs. All within radius shows everything in your chosen search area.
🤏 Pinch & Pan
Pinch to zoom your radar range. Two-finger drag to pan. Explore beyond your immediate area without moving.
🗺️ Maps Handoff
When locked on, tap the maps button for turn-by-turn directions in Apple Maps or Google Maps.
Blip Legend
Tap Roulette
Can't decide where to go? Tap Roulette picks a nearby venue at random and sends you there — no overthinking, no committee meeting, just a decision made. Find it on the Venues tab or in Settings.
📍 Radius Control
Set how far you're willing to travel. Results are filtered to your chosen range so you won't end up miles away.
🎯 Lock & Go
Once a venue is picked, you get the essentials — distance, details, and a one-tap handoff to Maps.
🔄 Spin Again
Not feeling it? Spin again and let fate have another go.
Venues
A fully searchable list of nearby venues with photos, ratings, and live tap list data. Search by venue name or beer name. Sort by distance or style match. Filter to find exactly what suits the moment.
🔍 Smart Search
Search across venue names and beer names simultaneously. Fuzzy matching means you don't need exact spellings.
📊 Sort Options
Sort by distance to find what's close, or by style match when filtering to find venues with the best selection.
❤️ Favourites
Heart any venue to save it. Favourited venues show as red blips on the radar so you can always spot your regulars.
📸 Rich Cards
Every venue card shows a photo, distance, rating, beer count, and a featured beer pill highlighting what's worth trying.
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Beer Sip or Skip · PINtDEXTER · Beer Alerts · Beer Can Scan · Venue Detail
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Sip or Skip
Swipe through real beers Tinder-style and tell PINtPOINT what you love. Love IPAs? Hate sours? Prefer session strength? Sip or Skip builds your personal taste profile in minutes. Find it on the Discover → Beers tab or in Settings → My Stuff.
👉 Swipe to Sip or Skip
Swipe right (or tap Sip) for beers you'd order. Swipe left (or tap Skip) for ones you'd avoid. 32 curated cards across 12 styles.
⚡ Instant Profile
After 10 swipes, PINtDEXTER has enough signal to start personalising your recommendations. Keep going to sharpen it further.
🔁 Refine Any Time
Your taste changes. Run Sip or Skip again to refine your profile — each session improves your recommendations.
🗂️ My Kind of Beer
See your full taste profile under Settings → My Stuff. Preferred styles, avoided styles, strength preference, and PINtDEXTER labels — all in one place.
PINtDEXTER
PINtDEXTER is PINtPOINT's personal recommendation engine. It analyses your Sip or Skip taste profile alongside your real scan history to surface the best beer on tap at every venue you visit — your Best Pint Next.
🎯 Best Pint Next
A compact recommendation button on every venue's tap list. Tap to expand and see PINtDEXTER's top pick with confidence level and reasons why.
🧠 Learns From Both Sources
Recommendations blend your Sip or Skip swipe profile with beers you've actually scanned — swipes fill the gap until your scan history builds up.
🚫 Avoids What You Hate
Styles you consistently skipped are penalised in the scoring — PINtDEXTER won't keep recommending sours if you always swipe left on them.
💬 Reason Chips
Every recommendation comes with short reason chips explaining why that beer was picked — style match, ABV preference, or top-rated at this venue.
Beer Alerts
Never miss your favourite beer. Add beers to your watchlist and PINtPOINT will alert you when they appear on tap at venues you've saved as favourites. Matched against live Untappd tap list data.
📝 Watchlist
Build a list of beers you love. Add as many as you want — swipe to remove any you no longer care about.
❤️ Favourited Venue Alerts
Alerts are matched against the venues you've saved as favourites — so notifications stay relevant to the places you actually care about.
🔔 Push Notifications
Get notified when a watched beer is spotted at one of your saved venues.
📲 Checks on Open
Alerts also run when you open the app, so you can quickly see what's appeared since your last visit.
Beer Can Scan
Point your camera at the barcode on a can or bottle. PINtPOINT looks it up using the EAN-DB product database and returns the beer name, brewery, and style where available. Cans and bottles only — pump clips aren't scannable.
📷 Instant Barcode Scan
Live camera scan reads the barcode instantly. No typing, no searching — point and scan.
🍺 Beer Identification
Returns beer name, brewery, and style where available. Some labels won't match — you can fill in the details manually.
🗃️ Save to My Beers
Add the scanned beer to your personal collection, edit the details, and track your stash.
📦 Cans & Bottles Only
Beer Can Scan works on packaged cans and bottles with barcodes. Pump clip photos can't be scanned.
Venue Detail
Tap any venue card to see the full picture — tap list, ratings, distance, navigation, sharing, and more.
🍺 Full Tap List
Every beer on tap with style, rating, and ABV. Sort by rating or ABV. See the top-rated beer badge.
🧭 Navigate
One tap to open directions in your maps app of choice. See distance from your current location.
📲 Share & QR
Generate a QR code for any venue. Share it with friends so they can add it to their PINtPOINT app.
🔗 Untappd Link
Jump to the venue's Untappd page to check in, see reviews, and browse the full beer menu.
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Nights Out Create-a-Crawl · Map View · Sharing
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Create-a-Crawl
Plan the perfect pub crawl in seconds. Set your starting point, number of stops, maximum gap between venues, and total walking distance. PINtPOINT builds an optimised route using a nearest-next algorithm.
📐 Smart Routing
Set 2–8 stops with configurable max gap and total walk distance. The algorithm finds the best route through nearby venues.
🚶 Walk Times
Real-time walking time estimates between each stop. See total crawl distance and estimated duration at a glance.
✅ Progress Tracking
Mark stops as visited as you go. Resume an active crawl anytime — your progress is saved.
📲 Share with Friends
Share your crawl itinerary via any messaging app — venue names, distances, and walk times between each stop.
🗺️ Map View
Toggle between list and map with a single tap. Every stop appears as a numbered pin on a dark-styled map with a dashed route line connecting them in order. Your current stop is highlighted.
📍 Open in Google Maps
Send the full crawl route to Google Maps with all stops as waypoints — navigate the whole night without leaving your maps app.
Sharing
Share venues and crawl routes with friends — no accounts needed, works with any messaging app.
🃏 Tap Trumps
Share any venue as a collectible-style card with photo, stats, and PINtPOINT branding. Ghost pubs get a purple card.
📲 Crawl Sharing
Share your pub crawl itinerary — venue names, distances, and walk times between stops — via iMessage, WhatsApp, or any app.
🗺️ Google Maps
Open any crawl as a multi-stop walking route in Google Maps with one tap. Navigate the whole night from your maps app.
⭐ Google Reviews
See and leave Google reviews for any venue directly from its detail page — support the pubs you love.
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Pub Culture Ghost Hunter · Troubled Pubs
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Ghost Hunter
Every street corner was once a pub. Toggle Ghost Hunter and your radar transforms — 500+ closed and demolished pubs appear as purple blips, with the feature primarily focused on London. Tap any ghost to see what it once looked like, and what replaced it.
📸 Then & Now
Historical photos alongside current Street View. Tap the venue image to flip between past and present — the same corner, decades apart.
🟣 Purple Blips
Ghost pubs appear as solid purple blips on the radar. Many are linked to archive photography and historical notes.
💀 Demolished Mode
Filter to show only the pubs that no longer exist at all — not converted, not closed, just gone.
Troubled Pubs
Some pubs need your support before it's too late. PINtPOINT uses FPI (Financial Pressure Index) data from ismypubfucked.com to highlight venues under financial strain — from "Feeling It" to "Absolutely F**ked". Visit them while you still can.
At Risk of Closure
At Risk of Closure
Under Pressure
Under Pressure
🟠 Amber Radar Blips
Struggling pubs show as solid amber. At-risk pubs pulse faster the higher the FPI score. Critical pubs flash purple.
🧭 Lock-On Warning
Tap an amber blip — the compass needle turns amber and a flickering warning appears: UNDER PRESSURE, AT RISK, or IN SERIOUS TROUBLE.
📊 Venue FPI Card
Every troubled pub page shows FPI score, severity label, and rate change vs 2023 — credited to ismypubfucked.com · VOA data.
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Manage Add Venue · Customisation · Filters
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Add Venue
Found a pub that's not in the database? Add it yourself. Search by name or Untappd URL, or add from your Discover results. PINtPOINT pulls in photos, location data, and tap list details automatically.
🔍 Untappd Search
Paste an Untappd venue URL or search by name. PINtPOINT imports the tap list, ratings, and venue details.
📸 Auto Photos
Google Places photos are fetched automatically. If the initial fetch fails, photos are lazily loaded when you browse.
🌍 Worldwide
Add venues from anywhere in the world. PINtPOINT already covers venues across multiple countries and keeps growing as more places are added.
Customisation
Make PINtPOINT yours. Choose your theme, pick an accent colour, set your preferred units, configure your radar behaviour, and set up Quick Picks for the areas you visit most.
🎨 Themes
Multiple colour themes to suit your taste — Teal, Amber, Purple, Blue and more. Every UI element adapts.
📡 Radar Settings
Choose between Nearest Venues or All Within Radius mode. Set how many blips to show or the radar range.
📌 Quick Picks
Save up to 6 favourite areas (postcodes, neighbourhoods, cities) for instant location switching.
📏 Units
Switch between miles and metres. Distance displays across the entire app update instantly.
Filters
Tap the gold magnifying glass on any screen to open the universal filter sheet. Set your destination, radius and beer styles — all from one place, applied across every tab.
📍 Destination
Search by postcode or area name, or tap a Quick Pick to jump to your favourite spots instantly.
📏 Radius
Six presets from 250 yards to 15 miles. Your selection syncs across the radar, venues and discover tabs.
🍺 Style Filter
Multi-select from dozens of styles — IPA, Stout, Lager, Sour, Saison, and more. Long-press any style for a description.
🔍 Consistent
One gold magnifying glass, top-left on every screen. Same filters everywhere — no hunting for settings.