Our story
A pint in London can cost eight quid. Nobody tells you where it doesn’t.
You finish work, you want a good pint nearby, maybe two, maybe somewhere your mates can actually find. So you open Google Maps, then another map, then reviews, then you’re asking ChatGPT, and an hour later you’re back at the same place as last time. We built PUBMAXX so you don’t have to do that. One map. Real prices. The whole night in one place.
Why we built it
Planning a night out had quietly turned into admin. The cheap pint is on one app. The walk is on another. Whether the place is any good is on a third. And the price, the thing that actually decides where you go, is nowhere at all.
So most nights you don’t plan. You give up and end up where you always end up. We got tired of that. A pint shouldn’t cost a day’s lunch, and finding the one that doesn’t shouldn’t cost your whole evening.
What we did about it
We put real prices on the map. Every one names where it came from, and the ones logged by drinkers carry the day they were seen. Tap a pub and you see what a pint costs before you set off, not after you’ve handed over a note.
We kept the stories too. Most of these pubs have been pouring for a century or two, and the good ones earned their walk. So we cite the heritage, and we never make it up.
And we made it one link for the crew. You plan the night, you send it, everyone lands in the same place walking the same route. No group-chat archaeology at half six.
One more thing, and it’s the important one. Nobody pays to rank. Not ever. There’s a wall in the code between anyone’s money and the prices you see. A sponsored thing says so and sits in its own slot. The order of pubs on your map is never for sale.
Who it’s for
Everyone who actually goes to the pub. The after-work crowd who want a cheap round before the last train. The quiet-pint person who just wants a good one and a seat by the window. The birthday mob who need somewhere that’ll take twelve of them on a Friday. We’re not building this for the few who can drop eight quid on a lager without noticing. We’re building it for everyone else.
What we stand for
- Real prices, or nothing.Every price and every fact shows where it came from. If we can’t stand a number up, we leave it blank. No filler, no guess dressed up as data.
- The night, not the units. A good one is measured by who you were with, not how many you had. Nothing in here nudges you to drink more.
- Your nights are yours.Nothing’s public unless you choose to share it, and you can browse the whole thing without an account.
- No ads. No paywall. This is a response to getting mugged for a lager, not another thing trying to sell you one.
By the numbers
Every number here is counted from the same public data the app runs on. No vanity metrics, no invented users. If it’s on this page, it’s real.
- 964
- pubs trackedeach one carrying a real, sourced price
- 2,800
- pint prices loggedreadings from public data, every one sourced
- 346
- historic pubs citedone sourced fact each, never invented
- 9
- UK cities liveLondon first, more to browse
Across 33London boroughs and neighbourhoods, the cheapest pint we’ve logged is £1.99. The dearest is £13.00, and someone is paying it. The average sits at £5.71.
Press kit
- Name
- PUBMAXX. The app is PUBMAXXING.
- One line
- Real pint prices from real people, one map, and the whole night in a single plan. Free, and nobody pays to rank.
- Positioning
- London runs on its pubs. This is the app that runs your night.
- Contact
- karanszdy@gmail.com
- Founder
- Karan Manoharan · X
- Explore
- The Pint Index · Historic pubs
- Logo
- PNG (512px) · SVG mark
Story hooks
London runs on its pubs. This is the app that runs your night. If you’re writing about the cost of a night out, the Pint Index is your angle.
- London’s pint price league table. The Pint Index ranks 33 boroughs and neighbourhoods by the price of a pint, from £1.99 at the cheap end to £13.00 at the top. It is built from 2,800 sourced readings, and every figure links back to where it came from.
- A price series, not a one-off headline. The prices people log carry the day they were seen, so the Pint Index can show how a London pint moves over a season, not just what it costs today.
- Sourced, never invented.Where the data can’t stand up an honest number for an area, the table shows nothing there. No filler, no estimate dressed up as a fact.
Come pubmaxxing
Press, investors, and anyone who just wants a cheaper pint: you’re all welcome. 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.
- Heritage narrative is cited from Wikipedia and Wikidata.
- Mapping data is © OpenStreetMap contributors.