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Start going out.
Noctu is a deck of things actually happening in Madrid. Swipe through it, keep what you like, send a few to your friends and let them vote. You end up with a plan instead of a group chat with nineteen links in it.
Free. No account. Nothing to install — it runs in your browser.
Three swipes and a vote
No feed, no algorithm to argue with, no endless list. One card at a time, and a decision at the end of it.
Swipe the deck
Every card is one plan: what it is, when, where, what it costs, and a photograph of the actual place. Left to skip, right to keep. Filter by day, by category, or to free things only.
Send a few to friends
Swipe up on the ones worth arguing about. Your friends get a link, no account needed, and they vote yes or no. You can see who voted for what.
Get a plan for the day
Noctu lays the winners out across the evening — something to see, somewhere to eat, somewhere after — and fills the gaps. Share the whole plan as one link.
Everything a night out in Madrid can be
Not only clubs, and not only museums. The deck mixes categories deliberately, so you get an exhibition after a concert after somewhere to eat rather than eleven theatre listings in a row.
Exhibitions and museums
What is on now, with the real opening hours for the day you are looking at — including the ones that shut on Mondays.
Restaurants worth the trip
Rated above 4.2 with a real number of reviews and a sane price, across every cuisine in the city. Phone number to book, hours to check.
Parks, zoos and aquariums
El Retiro, El Capricho, the botanical gardens, Faunia, the Zoo Aquarium — with the history behind them, not just a pin on a map.
Cinema and theatre
Screenings with the screen and the time of each showing, plus what is on stage around the city.
Concerts and nightlife
Touring shows at the big rooms and the curated nightlife list — rooftops, tablaos, terraces — that no map app has.
The weather, honestly
A real forecast for each day in the deck, so the plan does not put you on a terrace in the rain.
Nothing here is invented
Every card comes from a named source under its own licence, and the app lists them all in full. Nobody pays to be in the deck, because Noctu takes no money from anyone.
Claude reads the opening hours out of prose, translates the descriptions into English and works out the Noctu score. It is automatic, it can be wrong, and that is exactly why the Google rating sits beside it untouched.
Your night is nobody's business
Noctu has no accounts, no tracking, no analytics and no advertising. There is no server holding your data, because there is nothing sent to one.
- Your likes, votes, sent plans, name and picture are stored in your own browser, on your own device.
- No cookies, no third-party scripts, no pixel, nothing to consent to.
- A plan you share carries only the event and the date — never your name.
- Export everything as a file, or delete all of it, from your profile at any time.
Before you ask
Is it free?
Yes, entirely, and there is nothing to upgrade to. Noctu sells nothing, takes no commission and shows no advertising. Where a card has an Info & tickets button it sends you to the organiser's own site, and what happens there is between you and them.
Do I need an account?
No. Open it and it works. Guest mode is the only sign-in there is at the moment, and everything is stored on your device rather than on a server.
Is there an iPhone or Android app?
Not yet. Noctu is a web app: open noctu.app in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen if you want it to behave like an installed app. Native versions are the plan, not a promise.
Which city?
Madrid only, deliberately. The sources are Madrid's own open data and a deck built from a national feed would be worse everywhere.
How current is it?
The whole catalogue is rebuilt from the sources every night, and the app tells you the day it was built. Ratings and opening hours are refreshed on their own schedule. Events still get cancelled and hours still change, so check with the organiser before you set off.
Something on a card is wrong. Or that photograph is mine.
Tell us and it gets fixed or removed. There is a support page inside the app with everything needed to report a wrong listing, and a route for photographers, venues and organisers who want their work taken down — it is removed and blocked from being ingested again.
Does it work in Spanish?
Spanish and English, switchable in the profile. Spanish is the source language; the English is translated and the app says so.