[prunax]

Quick update since both comments touched on this, shipped the budget filter this week, so worth closing the loop.

On the price level data: the field was always there in the Google Places response, the app just wasn't surfacing it. We now map it on the proxy side, 1–3 become $ / $$ / $$$ directly, and we clamp Google's 4 to 3. The distinction between $$$ and $$$$ isn't meaningful when you're trying to find somewhere four people can agree on. 0 and absent both map to undefined and fall through to "Any." No extra API call, filtering is purely client-side on the already-loaded results.

UX is three chips below the category picker: Any · $ · $$ · $$$. Tap to filter, tap again to clear, resets on category switch. It only shows for Coffee & Casual, Restaurants, and Bars & Nightlife, not for Parks or Museums where price_level is sparsely populated and semantically odd. The honest caveat is that coverage is Google's, not ours. In Paris or London the filter works well; in a smaller city you might filter yourself down to three results. The "Any" default always shows everything, so it degrades cleanly.

I'll let you give a try! -> hugpoint.io