About
Finding a cheap pint shouldn’t take three apps.
Find a pub, check its listed prices and send your mates a plan.
Why I built it
After a hard day’s work I wanted a cheap pint nearby. Finding one meant bouncing between Google Maps, other maps and ChatGPT. So I put the pubs, their listed prices and a plan for your mates in one app.
A round of four at the average listed pint is £22.20. The map shows which pubs list a pint for less, so you know before you get to the bar.
I build PUBMAXX on my own, working with AI coding agents. Most AI gets built for companies. I’d rather build it for someone on a night out, and that’s what Pub Pal is.
You pick how it looks and sounds, then type or talk to it, and it finds you a pub or plans a route.
Tell it you can’t stand loud pubs, or that you’re vegetarian, and it asks whether to remember that. Tap yes and it bears that in mind next time. Go off lager and it offers to update what it knew. Nothing becomes a memory without that yes, and you can correct or delete any of them.
It’s free, and nobody pays to rank.
Karan Manoharan, founder of PUBMAXX
What the map does
PUBMAXX is a London pub map for comparing listed pint prices, planning crawls with friends and sharing routes.
Compare listed drink prices, read pub histories with references and share a plan with the stops and walking route. PUBMAXX is free to use.
Browse and save pubs on this device without an account. Create a plan and send an invite link to your mates. Sign in to sync your saves, log prices and use Social when it is available.
You can also find coffee, food and alcohol-free choices. Food listings name their source and stay separate from pint prices.
How we handle prices
Listed prices name their publisher when recorded and say when one is missing. Drinker reports show the day they were logged. Prices can change, so check at the bar.
Sources, confirmation and coverage
- A price needs confirmation. A single report can show on the pub’s own page. It only sets the pin colour after a second independent drinker agrees while the report is recent enough. The same requirement applies to cheapest-price lists, soft drinks, alcohol-free drinks and logged coffee prices.
- Wetherspoons prices. Their public web menus don’t give per-pub drink prices today. Where we have no price, we say so.
- Coverage varies by city. We started with listed prices in London. The UK directory has 38,426 pub listings and 7,267 bar listings from OpenStreetMap. A listing doesn’t mean we have its prices or know it’s open. Browse pubs across the UK
- The price order is not for sale. No slot is sponsored today. Any future sponsorship will be labelled and kept out of the price order.
- You choose what to share. Rewards and rankings never depend on how much you drink. Your nights stay yours unless you choose to share them, and you can browse without an account.
Who builds it
PUBMAXX is built by Karan Manoharan.
The London photographs on the homepage are Karan's own. They show the streets, pubs and places behind the map.
A note on sources
If PUBMAXX shows you a figure, it tells you its source status: a named publisher where one is recorded, an honest note when a publisher is not recorded, or a drinker who logged it on a stated day. If nobody has logged a figure, it says so.
By the numbers
959 of the 2,033 pubs in our London pub list have a pint price on record. Our pub price list holds 2,773 pint prices, each with its source status shown. 342 historic pubs carry a cited fact, and 12 UK cities are live, London first. Every figure here is counted from the same public data the app runs on.
Across 33 London boroughs and neighbourhoods, the cheapest listed pint we hold is £2.09. The dearest is £9.80. The average listed pint across 938 pubs in our London pub list with a listed price is £5.55, the same figure the homepage gives, taken from each pub’s cheapest pint.
For the press
Press details and downloads
- Name
- PUBMAXX. Website: pubmaxxing.com.
- One line
- Find a pub, compare listed prices and share a plan. Free to use, with no paid ranking.
- Positioning
- London runs on its pubs. This is the app that helps you decide where to go for a night out, a coffee, food, or a quiet afternoon, what it costs, and who you’re meeting.
- Contact
- hello@pubmaxxing.com
- Founder
- Karan Manoharan · X
- Also see
- The Pint Index · Historic pubs
- Logo
- PNG (512px) · SVG mark
Facts for a piece
If you’re writing about the cost of a night out, the Pint Index is your angle. If you’re writing about daytime pubs, coffee, food, or alcohol-free rounds, the same honesty rules apply.
- The borough list shows listed prices from our London pub list. The dated public edition of the borough league is not ready yet.
Open the map
Start on the map, or say hello.
Data & sources
- Listed-building status comes from Historic England's National Heritage List for England (NHLE), © Historic England, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Each listed fact links to its official list entry.
- Pub histories cite Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Mapping data is © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Every source and its licence