A New Look for PubCrawl

PubCrawl has had a full visual overhaul. Same app, same features, but it should feel considerably calmer to use.

Photos do the talking

The biggest change is that venue and route photos now run edge to edge. Previously every listing sat inside a bordered card with a gradient behind it, which meant a lot of the screen was spent on decoration rather than on the place you were deciding whether to visit.

Now the image is the card. Underneath it you get the name and a single line of detail — venues, distance, views — instead of a row of boxed-off statistics. It's the same information in about a third of the space.

Darker, quieter

The app has always been dark, but it used to be dark purple, with gradients on almost every surface. It's now true black.

That matters more than it sounds. On an OLED screen black pixels are genuinely off, so photographs appear to float rather than sitting in a lit box — and it uses less battery on a long night out. Dividers are now single hairlines instead of borders and drop shadows, so the structure is still there, just quieter.

Purple hasn't gone anywhere. It's simply been given a job: it now marks things you can act on — the main button, the filter you've selected, your progress through a crawl. If something is purple, it means something.

A profile worth sharing

The profile screen has been rebuilt around your photo and your name, rather than burying them under a page title.

Your badges, stats and past crawls all sit below in clean grouped lists. It's a page you'd actually want to send someone.

Better recommendations

Alongside the redesign, the Venues tab has a new Recommended filter, and it's now the default.

Sorting purely by distance meant the nearest pub won even if we knew almost nothing about it. Recommended puts venues with a photo first, then those people have actually reviewed, added to routes or written about — and uses distance to break ties. Fewer bare listings, more places worth walking to.

Everywhere else too

The business dashboard and the venue pages on this site have had the same treatment, so whichever way you come across PubCrawl it should look like the same product.

The update is rolling out now on iOS and Android. If something looks off, or you preferred the old look, we'd genuinely like to know — get in touch.