Third Wave: Coffee Finder

Coffee worth the walk

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Serious coffee close by. Every branch keeps its own hours and its own rating, so one room is never judged by another. Not sponsored, no ads, no tracking. Third Wave is a guide to coffee shops worth going out of your way for. Not every cafe. Not a directory. Every shop here has been checked against one standard: coffee taken seriously — a real pour-over or manual brew, roasters who care where the beans came from, and people behind the bar who know what they're doing. FIND SOMEWHERE NOW Open the app and it answers the question you actually have: where can I get good coffee, near me, right now. Shops are sorted by distance and filtered to what's open, using real opening hours for each individual storefront — so one branch can be open while another across town has already shut. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Every shop lists what's worth knowing: how much seating there is, whether there's outdoor space, food, and whether they'd rather you didn't bring a laptop. ON THE MAP See every storefront at once, or tap a single one for directions. The map shows only coffee — no clutter of other businesses. JUDGED BY THE ROOM, NOT THE NAME Ratings belong to an address, not a brand. A shop that's wonderful on one corner and ordinary on another is scored that way, and a branch nobody has rated yet says so rather than borrowing its siblings' reputation. RATE, COMMENT, CONTRIBUTE Rate the shops you visit and leave a note for other people. Found somewhere that belongs here? Suggest it — type the name and the address fills itself in. Every suggestion is reviewed before it appears, which is what keeps the standard. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED The app works straight away. Sign in with Apple only if you want your ratings to survive a reinstall. YOUR LOCATION STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Distances and the map are worked out on your device. Your location is never sent to us. There's no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Starting in New York and growing worldwide!

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

Ratings now belong to a place, not a brand. A coffee shop with four branches is four different rooms, and each is scored on its own. A branch nobody has rated says so, rather than borrowing the reputation of its siblings. Near Me now starts at half a mile — about a ten-minute walk — with a quarter mile for dense neighbourhoods. When nothing's open nearby, the app offers to look a little further rather than showing you an empty list. Suggesting a shop is easier: street addresses complete as you type, so a café too new for the map no longer means typing everything by hand. And if a suggestion isn't added, you'll now hear why. Two fixes worth naming. Branches in the same neighborhood are told apart by their street instead of all reading alike. And the map keeps where you were when you come back from looking at a shop.

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Seller
  • GudBud Enterprises LLC
Size
  • 14.3 MB
Category
  • Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
13+
Copyright
  • © 2026 GudBud Enterprises LLC