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Expand the Map Add a Beer · Add a Venue · Log a Beer
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PINtPOINT only gets better when people use it. Many good pubs and beers are still missing — the backstreet locals, the cask that just appeared, the special release the crowd hasn't caught yet. When you contribute, that information becomes live for everyone nearby. No moderation queue. No waiting. No upvotes. Just better data, instantly.
Add a Beer
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Add a Beer
›Know a beer PINtPOINT doesn't? On Discover → Beers, paste an Untappd beer URL into the search bar and tap Add. The edge function pulls the canonical name, brewery, style, ABV and beer ID from the source and upserts to the shared catalogue.
🔗 URL or Shortlink
Full URLs and short links both work — the edge function resolves them server-side.
🗝️ Canonical Beer ID
Every beer in the catalogue keys on a canonical ID pulled from the source. The paste flow won't create duplicates — future logs and scrapes resolve to the same row.
vs. Log a Beer
Log a Beer ties a beer to a specific venue's live tap list. Add a Beer just enters it into the shared database — no venue attached. Use this when you want the beer searchable regardless of where it's pouring.
Add a Venue
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Add a Venue
›Found a pub that's not in the database? Add it yourself. Paste the venue's Untappd URL, or add from your Discover results. PINtPOINT pulls in photos, location data, and tap list details automatically.
🔍 Paste to Import
Paste the venue's Untappd URL and 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.
Log a Beer
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Log a Beer
›See a beer on tap that PINtPOINT doesn't show? On any venue's detail page, tap "Add Beer", paste the Untappd URL and pick the serving type (cask, keg or draft). The beer joins that venue's live tap list on the spot — the fastest way to correct a stale scrape or add a one-off special.
🔗 Paste-and-Go
Grab the beer's URL from the app share sheet or the browser URL bar. Full resolution happens server-side — no lookups on your device.
🛢️ Cask, Keg, Draft
Mark cask when it's cask. The venue page and share cards use that flag to badge cask pours distinctly.
♡ Watch While You Log
Log a beer and add it to your Beer Alerts watchlist in the same tap.
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Find & Explore Discover · Radar · Tap Roulette · Venues
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Four ways to see what's around you. Radar sweeps and plots venues as tappable blips; Venues gives you the searchable list; Tap Roulette picks for you when you can't decide; Discover surfaces pubs PINtPOINT doesn't yet know about.
Discover
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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
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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.
🎛️ Legend Chips Are Filters
Every chip in the key below the radar is tappable. Isolate a single class of pub — Pick, Faves, @Risk, Match, Others, Ghosts, Unknown — and hide the rest. Handy in dense areas where blips overlap.
🎯 @Risk Auto-Hides Outside Coverage
The @Risk chip only shows where we have Fabric Preservation Index data (England and Wales). Users elsewhere never see a chip that leads to an empty radar.
🔔 Bell That Doesn't Overstay
Watched beers spotted nearby collapse to a small bell top-right — tap to expand, ignore and it auto-fades after about 18 seconds. Never blocks the search magnifier.
Blip Legend
Tap Roulette
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Tap Roulette
›Can't decide where to go? Tap Roulette picks a nearby venue at random, then spins again for a beer from that venue's tap list — 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.
⚡ Live Refresh On-Land
Rather than pre-scraping every venue in range, we fetch a fresh tap list for just the pub the wheel lands on. No wasted data, no wasted time — the pint we spin for is the pint that's actually there.
🔄 Spin Again
Not feeling it? Spin again and let fate have another go — or "Exclude & re-spin" to drop a specific venue from the next round.
Venues
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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.
💾 Query Persists
Search a pub name, tap into a venue, hit back — your query and the filtered list are still there. No re-typing to keep browsing matches.
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Beer Beer Alerts · Beer Scan
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Real beers you find in the wild. Beer Alerts pings you when a watched beer turns up at a venue you've saved. Beer Scan reads a barcode or pump-clip photo and adds the beer to your history — every confident scan grows the shared catalogue for everyone.
Beer Alerts
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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 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 Scan
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Beer Scan
›Two ways to identify a beer from your camera. Frame any can or bottle and PINtPOINT auto-reads the barcode in real time. For cans without a useful barcode, cask pump clips, or anything where the printed label tells you more than the strip, tap "Scan" and PINtPOINT reads the label itself — extracting brewery, beer name, style and ABV.
📷 Auto Barcode Scan
Live camera scan reads the EAN/UPC barcode instantly — no typing, no tapping. Cross-checks our central catalog, then EAN-DB and Open Food Facts as fallbacks.
👁️ Label Vision
Tap "Scan" to read a label with vision. Works on craft cans, cask pump clips, taps with no barcode in frame — anywhere the printed label is more reliable than a strip.
🔗 Auto-Link
When vision finds a confident match in the source catalogue, your scan attaches the canonical beer ID and adds it to the central catalog automatically — every scan grows the database for the next user.
📚 Save & Scan Next
Confirm-screen has primary save and a secondary "Save & Scan Next" — fast batch entry when you're working through a haul or a flight.
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Taste Tuning Head to Head · My Kind of Beer · My Kind of Pub · PINtDEXTER · Sip or Skip · TUNeDEXTER
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Teach PINtPOINT your taste, then let it work for you. Sip or Skip and Head to Head build your profile from picks. My Kind of Beer and My Kind of Pub are quick arc-gauge questionnaires that seed the same profile without swiping. TUNeDEXTER lets you fine-tune the sliders directly. PINtDEXTER is the engine underneath — it blends every signal and drives every recommendation surface in the app.
Head to Head
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Head to Head
›The next generation of taste profiling. Where Sip or Skip asks "would you drink this?" — Head to Head asks "which of these two?" Forced choice, always between two beers of the same style. A West Coast IPA versus a Hazy IPA is meaningful; a Sour versus a Stout is not.
🎯 Pick Your Styles First
Choose from 13 styles before you start. No forced IPA-vs-IPA if you don't drink IPA — H2H only matches you on styles you actually like.
🥊 Same-Style Matchups
Five pair-choice rounds, always within the same style. Your preference between Punk IPA and Neck Oil reveals sub-style signal Sip or Skip can't capture.
🏆 Champs Per Style
See your winners ranked by win percentage. Champion styles are prepended to your taste profile — PINtDEXTER recommendations update instantly.
🔄 Mind Changed? We Notice
If a style you voted for was previously in your "avoided" list, it's removed. Your new preference wins.
⚡ See My Recommendations
End of a round drops you on a ranked top-10 of beers on tap within 3 miles that best match your refined profile. Walkable-now, not "anywhere in your search catchment". Tap any row to open the venue.
My Kind of Beer
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My Kind of Beer
›An 8-question arc-gauge questionnaire covering the main beer style families — IPAs & Pale Ales, Lagers & Pilsners, Stouts & Porters, Wheat beers, Sours, Belgians & Trappist, Cask, and Strong beers. Each answered on a Hate → Love scale by tapping the arc segment. The fastest way to seed your beer taste if Sip or Skip's swipe feels like too much.
🎛️ Analogue Gauge
Not a checkbox list — a working analogue instrument. Needle swings to the picked zone, the tube glows amber, subtle flicker on lit tubes. Nixie tube aesthetic.
🔁 Re-Run Any Time
Last answers overwrite. Combines with SoS / H2H / TUNeDEXTER — none of them exclude the others; all feed the same profile.
⚡ Feeds PINtDEXTER
Answers flow into the same profile that powers Best Pint Next, Pick of the Pubs, and the top-10 recommendations screen.
My Kind of Pub
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My Kind of Pub
›An 8-question arc-gauge questionnaire about the KIND of pub you're happiest in — cask focus, garden, dogs, long tap lists, local & independent breweries, session strength, and more. Same Hate → Love arc-gauge as My Kind of Beer, but shapes the pub-side of the recommendation.
🎯 Pub-Side Scoring
Shapes the Pick of the Pubs green triangle so the pub PINtPOINT picks tends to be the kind you actually enjoy — not just the one with the deepest beer board.
🔀 Independent of Beer
Separate from your beer profile. Sets pub-level scoring; beer-side scoring runs alongside. Both combine at final Pick-of-the-Pubs time.
🔁 Re-Run Any Time
Last answers overwrite. Take five minutes to fill it in and every Pick of the Pubs pick from that moment shifts to match.
PINtDEXTER
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PINtDEXTER
›The recommendation engine behind every list PINtPOINT builds for you. Not a screen — the layer between your taste and every ranking. It blends every signal you give it (Sip or Skip swipes, Head to Head picks, TUNeDEXTER sliders, My Kind of Beer / My Kind of Pub answers, scanned beer history, and your ❤️ favourites) and drives every recommendation surface in the app.
🎯 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 Every Signal
Sip or Skip swipes, Head to Head champs, TUNeDEXTER sliders, My Kind of Beer / My Kind of Pub answers, and scanned beers all feed in — earlier signals fill gaps until your scan history builds up.
🗺️ Drives Every Recommendation Surface
Not just Best Pint Next. The green Pick of the Pubs triangle on the Radar, the top-10 payoff screen after H2H / SoS, the blue Match blips, and the reason chips on every card are all PINtDEXTER output.
🚫 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.
Sip or Skip
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Sip or Skip
›Swipe through real beers Tinder-style and tell PINtPOINT what you love. Find it via the "Sip or Skip" button on the Discover → Beers tab, or in Settings → My Stuff → My Kind of Beer.
👉 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. Curated cards across 13 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.
⚡ See My Recommendations
End of a round drops you on a ranked top-10 of beers on tap within 3 miles that best match your refined profile. Walkable-now, not "anywhere in your search catchment". Tap any row to open the venue.
TUNeDEXTER
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TUNeDEXTER
›Direct flavour sliders for fine-tuning what "your kind of beer" really means. Five axes (Hoppy, Sweet, Fruity, Malty, Sour) plus Body and Strength. Sits between your picks and PINtDEXTER's recommendations.
📡 Tracks Your Picks
Sliders open at positions derived from your Sip or Skip and Head to Head picks — you see your own taste, not a blank template.
🔒 You Save, You Lock
The moment you save, your tuning becomes authoritative. PINtDEXTER uses your values; SoS/H2H stop moving the sliders.
🔬 Live Beer DNA
As you adjust, a Beer DNA preview tells you which styles your current tuning favours — West Coast IPA, Hazy IPA, Stout, Sour and more.
🎛️ Precision Controls
Stepped 0–5 bars for flavour axes. Segmented controls for body (Light / Medium / Full) and strength (Session / Standard / Strong).
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Nights Out Create-a-Crawl · Hall of Fame · Sharing
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Turn a spare evening into a walk. Build a crawl from scratch, borrow one from the Hall of Fame archive, or share the full route (with venue names, distances and walk times) with a mate.
Create-a-Crawl
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Create-a-Crawl
›Plan the perfect pub crawl in seconds. Set your starting point, number of stops (2–12), maximum gap between venues, and total walking distance. Three modes — automatic, hands-on, and ghost — let you build anything from a routine evening to a haunted historical wander.
📐 Smart Routing
Standard mode picks the closest unvisited venue at each step. Configurable stops, max gap, and total walk distance keep the route within reach.
🧭 Nearest Neighbours
Hands-on mode: at each stop, you pick from the 3 closest pubs. The walk shape emerges as you go — great for unfamiliar areas where you want some say.
👻 Ghost Crawl
Swap every stop for a closed pub from CAMRA-era guides (1983, 1986, 1991, or all eras). Walks the ghosts of pubs past — a city tour you can no longer drink in.
🆕 New Venues Only
Skip pubs you've already saved. Forces the route into territory you've never set foot in.
🚶 Walk Times
Real-time walking estimates between each stop. Total crawl distance and duration shown 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 the itinerary via any messaging app — venue names, distances, and walk times between each stop.
🗺️ Map View
Toggle list/map with one tap. Every stop is a numbered pin on a dark-styled map, dashed route line connecting them in order. Current stop highlighted.
📍 Open in Google Maps
Send the full crawl route to Google Maps with all stops as waypoints — navigate the whole night from your maps app.
Hall of Fame
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Hall of Fame
›25+ curated pub crawls preserved from the archive — time-stamped routes, living and lost pubs both. A mixture of well-known classics and lesser-known routes from personal archives stretching back to 2007. Reach it via the 🏆 trophy at the top of Create-a-Crawl.
🍺 Classic Routes
Bermondsey Beer Mile, Orange Line Mile, Black Horse Beer Mile, Chelmsford Beer Mile, the Monopoly Board, and the Circle Line Pub Crawl — the routes London (and Essex) craft drinkers know by heart.
📜 Personal Archives
Time-stamped crawls from personal archives going back to 2007. Each preserves the original narrative, route, and pub picks of the day — a snapshot of a drinking moment in London history.
👻 Living & Lost
Many archive crawls now include closed pubs as ghost stops. Walk a 2008 route in 2026 and see how much of the city's pub fabric has changed in a generation.
🚀 Start Any Crawl
Tap "Start this crawl" on any Hall of Fame entry to load it as your active route. Mark stops visited as you go, share with mates, send to Google Maps.
🎲 Hidden Variants
Some crawls have an "Advanced drinkers" link to harder variants. The Monopoly Board hides an A–Z challenge: order a drink starting with a different letter at every stop.
🌍 Submit Your Own
Build a crawl in Create-a-Crawl, then tap 🏆 Submit on the route to send it for Hall of Fame consideration. PINtPOINT isn't London-only — if we don't yet cover your city, use Add a Venue for each pub first and you'll be seeding your city's coverage as you go.
…and many more in the app. The full Hall of Fame holds 25+ crawls and grows as users submit theirs.
Sharing
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Sharing
›Share venues, beers and crawl routes with friends — no accounts needed, works with any messaging app.
🍺 Beer Sharing
Send any beer's PINtPOINT page — recipients see brewery, style, ABV and where it’s currently pouring without needing the app.
📲 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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Two extra layers on the map. Ghost Hunter surfaces pubs that used to exist — 500+ closed and demolished venues, mostly London. Troubled Pubs flags the ones under financial pressure now — go before it goes purple.
Ghost Hunter
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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
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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 Customisation · Filters · Venue Detail
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The plumbing. Filters and Customisation apply across every screen — one gold magnifying glass, same destination, radius and style filters everywhere. Venue Detail is the anchor page for anything you tap into: photo, live tap list, FPI score, ❤️ favourite, share, and directions.
Customisation
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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. Search any new location and we offer to pin it right there in the sheet — if all 6 are used, we ask which one to swap out.
📏 Units
Switch between miles and metres. Distance displays across the entire app update instantly.
Filters
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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.
Venue Detail
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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. Toggle On Tap for what’s pouring now, Tap History for older sightings. 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.