Austin happy hours near you, right now: $2 street corn tacos
Zappy tracks happy hour at 662 Austin bars and restaurants — food, drinks and zero-proof. What's on, what it costs, and how long you've got.
The old way
Happy hour information is terrible
It lives in a hundred places and goes out of date the moment a bar changes its mind. We built Zappy because we were tired of guessing.
- A PDF menu from 2019 still sitting on the website
- An Instagram story that expired eleven hours ago
- A Reddit thread where the top comment says “this is outdated”
- Showing up at 6:05 for a happy hour that ended at 6:00
The Zappy way
What a listing actually tells you
One real listing, exactly as it appears in the app.
Better Half Coffee & Cocktails
0.9 miTue 3PM – 6PM 2
$3.50 High Life 3
$6 Sangria
$7 Cheeseburgs (Beef, Chicken or Veggie)
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Running right now
Not “usually has a happy hour.” Live means the clock is inside the window as you read it.
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The exact window
When it starts, when it ends, and which days. You know if you have time to get there.
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Every item, with its price
Not “great drink specials.” The actual list, so you know what you are walking into.
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Where it is, what it costs
Neighborhood and general price range, so a cheap deal at an expensive place is no surprise.
It's not just drinks
Food is the biggest category by number of specials — more happy hour food specials than beer, wine or spirits.
And 70 places run deals on zero-proof drinks, NA beer and soda, so a night out doesn't have to involve alcohol at all.
Where the deals come from
Happy hours change constantly. Keeping up with them is the whole job.
Online
We watch social media, email lists and websites for happy hour changes and announcements.
Outreach & IRL
We visit in person or ask directly when we can't find anything reliable online.
User-submitted
Readers send us new and corrected listings constantly. An incentive program is coming.
Routine review
Every listing records when it was last checked, and stale ones come back around.
People are into it
Have you ever wanted to grab a drink without breaking the bank? Well this app is for you.
Skip the hassle and download Zappy. It takes all the data from different restaurants and lets you filter your searches.
As someone that lives in a big city and is a huge foodie it's nice to find deals that I wasn't aware of and try new places.
Zappy is free
Searching, the map and the day, time and type filters cost nothing and always will. Pro adds a saved list plus the area and price filters, and keeps two people funded to check 662 listings by hand.
Go find something good.
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