Shared collection
Sunday shift
7 places
One mark per place. Names, hours and ratings open in the app.
For iPhone
Find your study café
Flatwhite maps laptop-friendly cafés - a place gets in only if the place data marks it as good for working on a laptop. It also tells you which hour is quiet, so the first place you walk into is the one you stay in.
Coming soon tothe App StoreWhat gets in
34,488 cafés in 333 cities, every one of them admitted by the same rule. Pick the café and the hour before you leave the house.
Nearby, right now
Good for laptops
When it empties out
What the card tells you
4.7(1,016)
- Good for laptops
- Wi-Fi
- Popular with students
One rule at the door
Every café in Flatwhite is one you can sit down and work in.
A place only gets in if the place data marks it as good for working on a laptop. That one mark is the ticket at the door rather than a filter you have to remember to switch on - so everything you scroll past is already somewhere you could work.
In the app
Places that are good for laptops
- Every one of them, without exception
- Admitted on whether you can work there, not on a star
- Shown with the hours it empties out, where the data has them
What a café search gives you
Everything that only looks like it might work
- A great café with nowhere to put a laptop
- Wi-Fi on the sign and two bar stools
- Four and a half stars for the cake
What that saves you is the guessing. You never open a place to work out whether it might do - that question is settled before it reaches your screen, and the only one left is which room you feel like today.
Then pick the hour
The same café is a library at ten and a queue at one.
Most cafés in Flatwhite - 76% of them - show how busy they get hour by hour, so you are not really choosing between cafés - you are choosing a moment. Turn up in the trough and the room is yours. Turn up at the peak and you are working standing up.
It is the one question a five-star rating cannot answer, and the one that decides whether you get a table or carry your laptop straight back out.
Illustration of the hourly view. The real figures are per café and live in the app. They describe a typical week from the place data, not a live count of who is in the room.
Likes and lists
The good ones are worth keeping. The best ones are worth sending.
Tap a heart and a café is on your shortlist. Build a collection and it becomes something you hand over - a neighbourhood, an exam period, the four places open on a Sunday. Pick its colour and it stays that colour, everywhere it appears.
Every collection has a link
getflatwhite.app/c/…
Up to 60 cafés travel inside the link itself. With the app installed it opens the collection there. Without, it opens a page like the one on the right - the collection’s name and how many places are in it, so the person you sent it to knows what arrived before they download anything.
For students and remote workers
You should not have to try three cafés to get one hour of work done.
You know the walk. The first place is full. The second has music you cannot think through. The third has one socket, and somebody’s coat is on the chair next to it. An hour gone before the laptop is even open, and the deadline has not moved.
Flatwhite settles the first of those while you are still putting your shoes on. The cafés in it are already marked for laptops, and most of them show which hour the room is quiet - so you pick the place and the hour before you leave, and sit down once.
And in a city you have never been to
Somewhere you do not know, you have nothing to go on at all. You are there for a seminar, a visit, the two hours between a checkout and a train, your laptop is in the bag - and the street in front of you gives away none of it. Which room takes a laptop, which one has a socket, which one wants the table back in twenty minutes.
That is the moment this was built for. You open it where you are standing, and the street sorts itself into the few places you could sit down and work in - most of them with the hour they are quiet, while you are still deciding which way to walk.
Questions
Before you download it
What makes a café laptop-friendly?
In practice: somewhere to plug in, a table you can open a laptop on, and a room that lets you stay. Flatwhite does not check those one by one - it carries only the places the place data marks as good for working on a laptop, and that mark is the whole admission rule. What is left to choose between them is the hour you go and how far you walk.
Does it show which cafés have Wi-Fi?
Where the place data says so, yes. It is not what decides the list, though - a room with Wi-Fi and nowhere to sit is still a bad office. What gets a café in is the laptop mark, nothing else.
Can I use it to find a study cafe near me?
Yes - it sorts by distance from where you are standing. Open the app, see what is around you, and check the hourly view before you leave: a café that is impossible at three in the afternoon is often empty at ten in the morning.
How do I know which are the best cafés to study in?
The honest answer is that a star cannot tell you. It averages the espresso with the noise level, and says nothing about whether you can finish a chapter. Flatwhite settles that question at the door instead - every place in it carries the laptop mark - and then gives you the two things a star leaves out: how far away it is, and, for most of them, which hour the room empties.
Which cities can I use it in?
333 cities in 97 countries, and the app carries all of them offline. New cities are added as their data is prepared, and the rule never gets looser to fill a map - a place appears once it is certain you can work in it.
What does a shared collection link do?
Collections are lists you build - a neighbourhood, an exam period, the places that are open on Sunday - and every one of them has a link, carrying up to 60 cafés. Open it with the app installed and the collection lands in your app. Open it without, and you get a page with the collection's name and how many places are in it: the café names live in the app's dataset, not in the link.
Why it exists
I built this because I love coffee.
I work and study in cafés, and finding the right one is harder than it should be. Closed. Full. Or too loud to think in.
So I made Flatwhite for everyone who does the same: people looking for a new place to sit, and people who are always somewhere new.
Find your study café
Open the app, look at what is around you, and go to the one that is quiet at this hour.
Coming soon tothe App Store
There is no advertising in the app, and no server behind it. Your likes and collections sync through your own iCloud - they never reach us.