Comparison

Pub Crawler vs PubCrawls

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pub Crawler

Discover pubs across the UK, view their beer selection, meal service times, and food hygiene ratings. Plan routes and share pub crawls with friends, with over 35,000 real ale pubs available.

Highlights
  • Find pubs across the UK
  • View beer selection and meal service
  • Check food hygiene ratings
  • Create and share pub crawls
  • Map view of pubs and routes
  • Search for nearby pubs
  • Contact pubs directly
Features
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Want to find pubs and find out what beer they sell, when they serve meals and what their official food hygiene rating is? Then Pub Crawler is for you. Pub Crawler lets you find pubs in any part of the United Kingdom and save pubs to lists called pub crawls which you can share with your friends. Over 35,000 pubs and bars selling real ale can be found using Pub Crawler. There is information about each pub such as opening hours, address and contact details, whether it serves food, its Food Standards Agency Hygiene Rating and what kind of beer it sells. Each pub can be displayed on a map. Please contact the pub to confirm opening times or other information that may be important to you - you can phone the pub directly from the app. You can also ask Pub Crawler to find pubs near you and restrict the search to pubs that sell real ale. When you create a pub crawl, Pub Crawler works out the distance between each pub and lets you see the pub crawl on a map so you can plan your route if you plan to visit more than one pub. Pub Crawler lets you search for pub crawls that other people may have created in places that you plan to visit.

About

PubCrawls

Easily plan group nights out by generating optimized walking routes through local bars. Invite friends, track progress in real-time, and enjoy interactive games like Pub Golf. Discover new venues and save your favorite spots for future adventures.

Highlights
  • Auto-generate optimized pub crawl routes
  • Invite friends via QR code or link
  • Real-time group progress tracking
  • Interactive games like Pub Golf
  • Discover and review local bars
  • Save and share custom routes
Features
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PubCrawl is for the night itself, not just the planning. SEE WHO'S OUT Check in when you get to a pub and your friends can see where you are. They check in, you see theirs. You stay on there for about three hours, and every new check-in tops it back up, so a full night out keeps you on the map without you having to think about it. Had enough? Tap Heading home and you drop off straight away. It's friends only, and you both have to have added each other. A request nobody has accepted yet doesn't count, and the public never sees any of it. New accounts start private. POST THE NIGHT AS IT HAPPENS Any check-in can be a post: the pub, a photo, a few words. It goes to your friends, who can like it and reply underneath. And if nobody you know is out yet, the Out tab shows which pubs near you have people in them right now, so you can see where's busy even if you don't know a soul in there. PLAN THE CRAWL IN SECONDS Tell it roughly where you're starting and how far you fancy walking, and it builds a route between the best pubs nearby. Or pick every stop yourself if you already know where you're going. EVERYONE JOINS BY SCANNING A CODE One person builds the route, everyone else scans a QR code and they're on it. Same pubs, same order, live on their own phone. Nobody has to ask where you've got to. If a pub's shut or you can't get in, skip it and the app finds you somewhere else nearby to slot in instead. TAKE PHOTOS, KEEP THEM Photos at every stop, including dual camera for front and back at once. They're grouped by pub, so you can go back through the night one venue at a time, and they live on the crawl rather than in one person's camera roll. Everyone who was there gets them. GAMES ALONG THE WAY Spin the wheel at each pub for a challenge or a drinking game. Categories, No Names and Buy a Drink are free, and the wheel picks both the game and who's doing it. WHEN IT'S OVER You get the whole night back: the route, the pubs, the photos, the scores. Share a photo mosaic to your stories. Every check-in also fills in your map of pubs you've been to, with a count for your city. It's more satisfying than it sounds. FIND MORE Browse routes other people have published, rate and review pubs, and save the ones worth doing again. PREMIUM - Crawls with more than 8 people. Only the host needs it, nobody else pays a penny. - Routes up to 12 stops instead of 5, and unlimited saved routes instead of 3. - Pub Golf, with scoring and a leaderboard. - Forfeit and Waterfall on the wheel, plus custom games with your own rules. Perfect for a night out with mates, a birthday, a stag or hen do, a team social, or working out a new city the fun way. Please drink responsibly, keep an eye on each other, and sort out how you're getting home before you head out. Privacy Policy: https://thepubcrawlapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Pub Crawler4 screens
PubCrawls4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pub Crawler at none against PubCrawls's 3. Pub Crawler also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). PubCrawls's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PubCrawls sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pub Crawler asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pub Crawler ships an update every 3 months, PubCrawls every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pub Crawler versus PubCrawls: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPub CrawlerPubCrawls
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB48 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperMichael NeilensPubCrawl LTD

Customer experience

Pub Crawler

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

PubCrawls

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pub Crawler

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

PubCrawls

Subscriptions2
  • PubCrawl Premium$4.991 Month
  • PubCrawl Premium$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • PubCrawl Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Pub Crawler free?
Pub Crawler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PubCrawls free?
PubCrawls is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pub Crawler or PubCrawls have ads?
Neither Pub Crawler nor PubCrawls shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pub Crawler or PubCrawls?
Pub Crawler ships an update every 3 months, and PubCrawls every 4 days. Most recently, Pub Crawler was updated on June 5, 2026 and PubCrawls on September 22, 2026.

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