Getting started with Pennyfill

Published 26 September 2026 - 4 min read

How to set up Pennyfill in five minutes: find cheap fuel near you, create a free account, save your stations, get price emails and try Pro alerts.

Pennyfill shows the latest prices at UK petrol stations, from the official data every forecourt now has to report. Here's how to get the most from it, in the order most people set it up.

1. Find cheap fuel near you (no account needed)

Open pennyfill.co.uk on your phone and type your postcode, or tap the location button to use where you are.
Pick your fuel from the dropdown at the top (unleaded, diesel, super unleaded or premium diesel).
The list under the map shows the cheapest first. Tap Nearest to sort by distance instead.
Use Within to choose how far to look - 2, 5, 10, 15 or 25 miles. Auto starts close and widens if there aren't many stations nearby.
Tap a station to see its prices for every fuel, when each price last changed, opening hours and directions.

2. Put it on your home screen

Pennyfill works like an app without an app store download.

iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
Android (Chrome): tap the menu (three dots), then Install app or Add to Home screen.

On iPhone you'll need to do this before you can get push notifications (step 6).

3. Create a free account

Tap Account at the top, or Save stations free under the map.
Sign up with your email and a password, or with Google.
If you use email, we'll send you a link - tap it to confirm your address. Check your spam folder if it hasn't arrived within a few minutes.

4. Save your usual stations

Tap the star next to a station in the list, or Add to favourites when you tap one on the map.
Save the ones you actually use: near home, near work, on the commute. A free account saves up to 3.
Your saved stations appear at the top under My stations.

5. Get price emails

Monday roundup: tick the box when you sign up (or turn it on later under Account, Emails) and you'll get a short email every Monday with your saved stations' prices and how they moved. Turn it off there, or from the link in any email.
Area alert: under the station list, tap Alert me to get an email when prices near a place change. A free account has one area alert.

6. Try Pro alerts (free for 7 days)

Pro watches prices for you, and tells you when one of your stations changes or somewhere near it gets cheaper.

Tap Pro at the top, choose monthly or annual, and start the free trial. You'll add a card, but you won't be charged if you cancel before the trial ends.
Important: back on the Pro page, under Your fuels, tick the fuel you buy. Alerts only go out for the fuels you pick here.
Tap Enable push notifications to get alerts on your phone as well as by email.
Pro also lets you save as many stations as you like, set up to 5 area alerts, search along a route and log your fill-ups.

Alerts are quiet overnight: anything that changes between 10pm and 7am arrives as one alert in the morning.

7. Tell us what's wrong

Prices come from what forecourts report, and sometimes they're out of date or mistyped.

On a station's page, if the pump showed something different, tap Report a price and enter what you saw. If it matched, tap Prices are right. Both help other drivers.
Anything else - bugs, confusing bits, ideas - email support@pennyfill.co.uk. Every message is read.