What guests and venues usually ask

Coming soon to iPhone and Android. It is in closed testing now. Sign up below and we’ll email you when you can download it. We’ll give a date when it is certain.

The app is free and works without an account. It is currently a test version, so its features and content may change.

No, it’s optional. Without an account you can still browse places; your favourites and lists are then kept only on your phone. With an account they stay on all your phones, and you can delete your account in the app at any time (Account and settings → Delete account).

Tonight recommends places for the time and mood you choose: it looks at whether the place is open, whether it fits the mood, how far it is on foot, and how reliable its data is. The order of places with similar scores changes daily. We describe the exact criteria on the Why these? page.

No. There are no paid rankings. We describe the ranking criteria on the Why these? page.

From OpenStreetMap data (“Per OSM”), for some places from a manual check (“Verified”), and for partner venues from the venues themselves (“Set by the venue”). If you find a place closed anyway, you can report it in the app with the It was closed button.

It means the venue’s owner has registered with us, we have checked them, and they maintain the listing themselves: opening hours, photos, offering, events. Partnership gives no advantage in the ranking.

A beta feature: it shows the latest-closing places in the city centre (Budapest Districts V–IX) for the chosen time slot. There is no real popularity data yet, and the screen says so.

The Events tab only lists real events posted by partner venues and by NightFinder, in chronological order. Each event shows who posted it and when.

The Roulette picks at random from the places you put on the wheel, and each one has the same chance. You can add 2–8 places, or leave it to the app with the “Let the app pick” button, which puts the top places from Tonight on the wheel. You can try the Roulette demo right here.

We phased it out. The Roulette in the app helps instead: you put in the places you’re considering, and the wheel picks. It’s faster, and nobody has to open links.

A hand-picked weekly list of five places for the weekend, from different districts and types. For each place we explain why it’s there, and nobody pays to be on it. See the list

Yes, with 1–5 stars, but you need an account for that. One account can rate a place once and change the rating later. There are no written reviews. The average only shows after at least 5 ratings and does not count towards the ranking.

In the app, on the place’s page, use the It was closed button or the report option (wrong data, closed place), or write to info@bardanapp.com. We look at every report.

It only asks for it if you allow it, and it uses it only on your phone, for the distances to nearby places and for the map. It does not send it to us.

No. We don’t sell your data or pass it to advertisers, there is no personalised advertising, and we don’t track you in other apps or on other websites. The website has no cookies or ad tracking. The details are in the privacy notice.

Yes. NightFinder shows evening entertainment venues, so it is only for people over 18.

No. The app does not encourage drinking alcohol, shows no drink prices or promotions, and partners’ texts and photos may not encourage it either. Drink responsibly, and don’t drive after drinking alcohol.

Currently it shows places in Budapest.

We do, manually. After you apply, we contact you by phone or email and check the venue’s public contact details to see whether you are entitled. If everything checks out, we approve it, and from then on you can edit the listing.

The operator of a hospitality venue, or an adult authorised by them. After you apply we check your entitlement, and we may reject an application without giving a reason. The rules are in the partner terms.

The venue’s name and introduction (in English too), a short sentence for the shared-link preview, opening hours and exception days, phone number and website, up to six photos and the cover, the entrance, the offering (with up to three photos), payment and booking information, events, and the listing’s accent colour. If you have them, you can also link your Instagram, TikTok and Facebook pages. The address and map location come from OpenStreetMap; if they are wrong, write to us.

So guests can see your latest posts and 24-hour stories on the venue’s listing, without you having to post anything twice. Instagram can be linked with a professional account and Facebook with a Page, in the Social section of the partner portal. By default you approve every item before it appears, and you can disconnect at any time. Tapping a card takes the guest to the original post, and we always show the source. The details are in the privacy notice.

Use the Disconnect button in the Social section of the partner portal. We then delete the access key immediately, and displayed items disappear within 24 hours at the latest. You can also do it from Meta’s side: in your Instagram or Facebook account settings, under Business integrations, choose Remove next to NightFinder. We never write anything to the connected account, we only read.

These can’t appear with us, even if they are up on Instagram or Facebook. The system holds back any item containing wording that encourages drinking or promotes drink prices, and we can also hide an item if it breaks the rules. Only what you have approved and what passed the filter appears on the listing. The rules are in the partner terms.

No drink prices, no promotions, and no images showing people drinking; neither text nor images may encourage drinking or address minors. Only real information and photos you have the rights to can go up. We only show prices for food. The details are in the partner terms.

Only real events held at the venue. An event can last at most 14 hours and can be advertised at most 120 days ahead. For a weekly programme, it’s enough to post it once as a recurring event.

Weekly-updated, aggregated numbers: how many people opened the listing, asked for a route, saved it or put it into the Roulette, where they came from, and how the events performed. Where fewer than 5 devices contributed to a number, it says “not enough data”. You don’t get names, accounts or exact times. The details are in the partner terms.

From OpenStreetMap, which volunteers maintain (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). We also check some places manually. For partner venues your own data is shown, marked “Set by the venue”, so the guest knows where it comes from.

No. Partnership gives no advantage in the ranking, and you can’t buy a spot in the lists. In the list every place appears on the same kind of card. Exact opening hours help only in that the app knows for sure when you’re open.

Currently it’s free. We’re not promising a price now, because we haven’t finalised the thresholds and fees. The plan is that the fee follows the venue’s measured attention: a venue that gets few guests through the app keeps the full listing and the partner tools free, and payment only starts once the venue regularly gets route requests. We’ll tell you a month before any change of tier, and you only have to pay after you explicitly accept. Whoever joins in the launch period, while it’s still free, becomes a founding partner and gets a more favourable, fixed-in-advance condition: we write about that here. The details are in the next question.

Whoever joins in the launch period, while it’s still free, becomes a founding partner: they get a more favourable, fixed-in-advance condition that we keep when fees are introduced. We’ll give you the exact terms in writing before fees are introduced, so you don’t have to guess. We’re not giving a price or a deadline now, because we haven’t finalised the fees. Founding status has no effect on the ranking: payment doesn’t buy a better spot, and the basic, public listing stays free for every place. The fee still follows the venue’s measured attention, as described under the question below. Register my venue

An app is worth little to venues while few people use it, so right now we’re working on gaining guests, and everything is free. Once a venue gets many guests through the app, running it and the advertising value it provides become a cost. The plan has three tiers: Free, Basic and Plus (and, if the data shows it’s needed, a fourth for the busiest venues). Every tier has the same features, only the fee changes with attention. By attention we mean the monthly number of route requests, not page views, counting only those from at least 5 different devices, without your own taps, averaged over three months. A venue can move up after two consecutive months, and down immediately, and we notify you in the partner portal a month before any change of tier. Payment never buys a better spot in the recommendations, and the basic, public listing stays free for every place. Whoever joins while it’s still free becomes a founding partner: they get a more favourable, fixed-in-advance condition that we keep when fees are introduced. We haven’t finalised the thresholds and fees; once we have, we’ll publish them on the Why these? page. Details on the home page

Your venue will still be in the app, because the city’s places are added from public map data (OpenStreetMap). Without partnership only its name, type and opening hours show; they come from public data, so they can be wrong, and for most places we haven’t checked them manually either. There are no photos, events, introduction or contact details, and no “Verified partner” label. As a partner you can correct and confirm the data. The basic, public listing stays free for every place, even if we introduce fees later.

Your own listing: a short sentence, an introduction, photos, the offering (without drink prices), a photo of the entrance and directions, an accent colour, an announcement, exception days, the “when to come” sentence, events and your own short link. Guests see buttons for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, the phone number, the website and booking. The listing produces a shareable page and a story image, and in the weekly statistics you can see when most people look. This doesn’t move you up in the ranking.

So guests can see at the door or at the table that the app knows the venue too. In the “Link, sticker, story” section of the partner portal you can create a window sticker and an A6 table card with the text “Find us on NightFinder”, the venue’s name and a QR code. The code leads to the venue’s page, where opening hours and the route are visible even without the app, and the statistics show separately how many opens came from the sticker. We plan that, once there are fees, partners who put it up will pay a lower monthly fee. How this combines with the founding partners’ terms we will also tell you in writing before fees are introduced. We’re not giving an amount or a date now.

Write to us at info@bardanapp.com with the venue’s name and address, and we’ll add it. It’s best if it’s also on OpenStreetMap, because everyone can see it from there.

NightFinder shows evening entertainment venues, so it is only for people over 18. The app checks this at launch based on the date of birth.

For the account, your email address; for the application, the contact person’s name, email address and phone number; and the content of the venue’s listing. We don’t publish your contact details and don’t hand them to anyone. The details are in the privacy notice.

Write to us and we’ll end the partnership. We take down the photos, the offering and the events, and the listing shows the OpenStreetMap data again. The details are in the privacy notice.