A field guide to the night
howff: real local nights out, ranked to your taste
/haʊf/ · noun, Scots
- 1.a favourite haunt; the place you keep coming back to.
- 2.an app that finds yours: the real, local places, ranked to your taste, with a map and a plan for the night.
Tell it a city and a vibe
Your brief, for example: divey rock bars, nothing touristy.
Be first in when we launch
Launching on iPhone. Scotland first, then everywhere the nights are good.
How it works
A proper night out, in three moves
Name a city and a vibe
“Divey rock bars, proper local food, nothing touristy” is a perfectly good brief. Tap a few categories, or just say it.
Get the real places
Howff finds the local bars, food and nightlife, not the tourist traps, and ranks every one of them to your taste.
Plan the night
See it on a map, build the crawl, check what's on tonight, and share the plan with your mates.
The point of it
Built for the places that don’t advertise.
No tourist traps
Howff ranks places by what they actually are (where they sit, who they’re for, what kind of night they hold), not by ad spend or a million identical reviews.
Sharper every night
Add a few places you love and every recommendation tunes to you. Your taste does the ranking. The more you use it, the better it knows your kind of night.
Plan with friends
A night everyone actually wants
Bring your mates in and Howff taste-matches the whole group, ranking every place fairly across everyone, so the night fits all of you, not just whoever shouts loudest. Then build the crawl together and go.
Why “howff”
“The Globe Tavern here, which for these many years has been my Howff.”
Robert Burns · Dumfries, 1796
A howff is the pub that knows you: your local, the regular table, the place you’d take a friend from out of town. Burns had his. Every city is full of them; they just don’t advertise. Howff finds yours.
Questions
Before you ask
When does it launch?
Soon. Howff is in the final stretch before the App Store. The waitlist hears first, and gets in first.
Which cities does it cover?
Scotland first (Edinburgh and Glasgow are already well covered), but Howff can plan a night in any city. Tell us yours when you join and we'll know where to open next.
Is it free?
Yes. Planning nights out with Howff is free at launch, and the waitlist costs nothing but an email.
iPhone or Android?
iPhone first, with Android planned. Join the waitlist either way and you'll hear the moment yours is ready.
Be first in
One email when Howff opens near you. That’s the lot.