Where should we go tonight?

NightFinder suggests a few Budapest places, each with a reason. It shows events and late-night food, and if you can’t decide, the Roulette picks.

Free, and works without an account. No paid rankings.

Tonight

Where to?

What’s open today at 21:00.

When

Mood

NightFinder picks

Try-it demo: scroll the screen, pull down the top for the map, tap the tabs, and start the Roulette. The places are real, public data.

Tell it when and what kind of night. The app does the rest.

No need to browse a hundred places. You get a few suggestions, and each one says why.

  • Tonight

    You pick a time (now, today, Friday, Saturday) and a mood. You get a few places, each with the reason we suggest it.

  • Events

    Concerts, quiz nights, match screenings. Real events only: venues post them themselves, or we do.

  • Trending beta

    The latest-closing places in the city centre for the chosen time slot. There is no real popularity data yet, and we say so.

  • Late-night food

    If you get hungry, the Food tab shows where you can still eat late in the evening, nearby.

  • Saved

    Save your favourites and build your own lists. With an account they stay on all your phones.

  • Roulette

    If you can’t decide, the app picks. You add the places, or leave it to the app.

Can’t decide? The app picks.

Thirty messages, five ideas, and at eight you still don’t know where you’re going? Put a few places into the Roulette and start it.

  • 2–8 places. Add them with the Roulette button on a place’s page.
  • Or leave it to the app. “Let the app pick” fills it from the Tonight recommendations.
  • Bird’s-eye view, pick, zoom in. The view switches from the Danube to a bird’s-eye view, a simplified city district draws itself, the app picks a place, and the winner’s roof lights up. One tap gives you a route, or you step back.

Not sure where to start?

Five places for the weekend, from different districts. For each one we explain why it made the list. Updated weekly.

All five places
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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05

The place data behind the app

These numbers come from the place file published right now. They are not estimates.

  • –places listed
  • –districts
  • –places on the Food tab
  • –places with opening hours we can read

Source: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), based on the published place file. Opening hours may differ, so it’s worth checking before you head out.

We’ll tell you when it launches.

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