Free on iOS & Android
Check in at the pub you’re in and your friends see where you are. Plan a walking route and get the group on it with one QR code. Every photo from the night in one shared reel — friends only, no algorithm.
Organising for a society or a sports club? Start with the student pub crawl guide.
The community so far
Four steps. The organiser does the first one; everyone else joins at step two.
Set a location and how many stops you want and PubCrawl builds the walking route between the best-rated pubs nearby — or hand-pick every stop yourself and drag them into the order you want.
Start the crawl and you get a join code and a QR code. Everyone scans in and gets the same stops in the same order on their own phone, so latecomers can walk straight to wherever the group has got to.
The group moves together, checks in at each stop, and takes photos as it goes. Pub Golf scoring and the wheel mini-games run alongside if you want a game on.
One shared photo reel for the whole crawl instead of twelve camera rolls, final scores, and the route saved so you can run it again next term.
Built for the organiser
Whoever organises the night ends up doing all of it: choosing the pubs, answering the same three questions forty times, and standing outside stop four ringing the people who went for chips. PubCrawl is built to take that off them.
The route is a thing everyone can open, not a message buried under sixty replies by nine o'clock. Save it and the next committee inherits the crawl that worked.
Short walking legs between stops, and venue pages that tell you what a pub is actually good for before you march twenty people through the door.
The limits are on the crawl, not on each person. If the organiser has Premium, everyone on that crawl gets the bigger group, the longer route and Pub Golf. Nobody else pays anything.
The feed, live check-ins, route planning and the games, in one app.
Check in at a pub and post a photo of the night. It goes to the friends you have accepted and nobody else — they can like it and comment, and it stays on your profile map. No strangers, no algorithm.
Check in and your friends can see which pub you are in for the rest of the night. Useful on a crawl, and useful on an ordinary Friday when nobody has made a plan yet.
Pick a location and a number of stops, and get a sensible walking route between the best pubs nearby.
Hand-pick the pubs, set the order, and share it privately or publish it for everyone in your city.
An interactive map with ratings, opening hours and walking distances, plus a page for every venue.
Every pub is a hole with a par. Scorecards and a live leaderboard for the whole group.
Premium
Everything you need to run a crawl is free. Premium adds the games and the bigger routes — and it applies to whoever is hosting, so if the organiser has it, everyone on that crawl plays.
A crawl on a free account holds up to 8 players. Premium takes the cap off, which is what a society social needs.
Full scorecards and a live leaderboard across the route.
Up to 12 stops instead of 5.
Free accounts keep 3 of their own routes. Premium keeps every one you build.
Two more wheel games on top of the free Categories, No Names and Buy a Drink.
Nothing between you and the next pub.
The ones we get asked most.
The free tier runs a real crawl: build or generate routes of up to five stops, keep up to three of your own routes, run a classic crawl for up to eight people, check in at every pub, and take photos at each stop that stay afterwards. Premium is what a bigger night needs — groups over eight, up to twelve stops, unlimited routes, Pub Golf scoring, the Forfeit and Waterfall wheel games and no ads. Only the host needs it, and everyone on their crawl gets those things without paying anything.
Creating the crawl gives you an invitation code and a QR code. Everyone else scans the QR or types the code in, and lands on the same crawl with the same stops in the same order on their own phone. There is no route to send round separately, and anyone arriving late can see which pub the group has got to. Everyone joining needs a free account — you cannot join a crawl as a guest.
Yes, and it is what the app is built around — though a crawl created on a free account is capped at eight players, so for a society social of fifteen to twenty the organiser needs Premium and nobody else pays. There is a full guide to running one — picking pubs that serve a group fast, splitting rounds into pods, pacing and a freshers week timeline — on the student pub crawls page.
Pubs and bars are listed across the UK, Ireland and beyond, each with its own page carrying hours, photos, menus and reviews. If your city is thin, any route you publish becomes the first one other groups there find.
Yes. Check in at a pub and add photos and a caption, and it posts to a feed only your accepted friends can see — they can like it and comment. Posts are not public, there is no algorithm and strangers cannot find them. Accounts are private by default. You can also add a photo to a pub’s own page separately, if you want to help other people out.
Each pub on the route is a hole with a par, and the app keeps the scorecard and the leaderboard for the whole group. It is a Premium game mode, and only the host needs Premium for everyone on that crawl to play. It works just as well scored on stops reached, check-in order or a photo challenge at each pub, which keeps everyone in the game including people who are not drinking.
Claim it. Your pub gets a free page with your hours, photos, menu and replies to reviews, and it shows up when people are building a crawl nearby. There is no charge for the page — see for pubs and bars.
Free on iOS and Android. Build the route, share the code, and let everyone scan in. Free crawls hold up to 8 players and 5 stops; Premium takes both caps off, and only the host needs it.
See who's out
The night, not just the plan
Check in at the pub you're in and your friends can see where you are for the rest of the night — on a crawl, or on an ordinary Friday when nobody has made a plan yet. Add a photo and a caption and it posts to a feed only the friends you have accepted can see. They like it, they reply, and it stays on your profile map. No strangers, no algorithm, nothing public.
Check in, and your mates see the pub
The venue, not your exact location, for about three hours — topped up every time you check in somewhere new. "Heading home" switches it off.
One shared reel for the whole night
Every photo from a crawl lands in the same place, so the morning after is one reel instead of twelve camera rolls.
Friends only, both ways
You both have to have added each other. New accounts are private by default, and someone who has only sent a request sees nothing.