Coffee Near Me changes most weeks. This is the plain record of what shipped and why it should matter to you.
Fewer listings that are not cafes, and a way to tell us
Eighty venues that were never cafes are out of the listings, and every cafe page now has a report button.
Search results should be cafes. Ours were not always. A car wash, a ferry terminal and a run of pubs and restaurants had found their way into the listings, and one of them was ranking first in its suburb.
What changed
Eighty venues that are not cafes have been taken out of search, the map and the suburb pages. No suburb lost its page in the process, so coverage is unchanged.
Every cafe page now has a report button. If a place has closed, was never a cafe, or the details are wrong, it takes one tap to say so.
Why it matters
A price directory is only worth opening if the places in it sell coffee. Reporting is the fastest way to find the ones we cannot spot ourselves, and like everything else here it needs no account.
The menu reader stops reading online shops
Prices now come from menus rather than from bean shops, and there is a page for anyone who wants to chip in.
We read prices off the menus cafes already publish. On a cafe that sells beans online, that reader was sometimes landing on the shop page instead and reading the price of a one kilogram bag as though it were a cup of coffee.
What changed
The menu reader now refuses shop and product pages outright. It will not fetch them, and it cannot write a price from one.
When it turns a page down it records why, so we can see what it skipped rather than guess.
There is a new support page for anyone who wants to help cover the running costs. It changes nothing about the data.
Why it matters
A price you cannot defend is worse than no price. This closes off the way the worst prices on the site got written in the first place, and the ones already there are being worked through by hand.
Sort by best rated, and tell us how the coffee was
A third way to sort the list, and a one-tap verdict on the coffee itself.
Price is not the only reason you pick a cafe. Testers said so plainly, so the list now answers a second question.
What changed
Best rated joins cheapest and closest as a way to sort. It ranks on the ratings a venue already carries, so it works from the first visit rather than waiting for us to gather anything.
When you open a cafe you are asked one question: how was the coffee? Three taps to answer, no account, no review to write.
The first time you use the app it asks what you are after, and sets your default sort from your answer.
Why it matters
Cheapest is a useful sort and a blunt one. Rating gives you a second opinion, and the one-tap verdict starts building a picture of which cafes are actually worth the walk. Nothing is published about a venue until enough people have answered for it to mean something.
Check in where you are, and photos that load
Submitting a price now starts with the cafe you are standing in, and cafe photos work again.
Submitting a price used to start with finding your cafe. Standing at the counter, that is the slowest possible first step.
What changed
Submitting a price now opens with the handful of cafes nearest you and one tap to pick the one you are in. If your phone is not sure where you are, the list says so instead of pretending.
Cafe photos load again. They had been quietly breaking, because the addresses we stored for them expire.
Why it matters
The whole point of the price record is that it is current, and it stays current because people confirm what they paid while they are there. Every step between opening the app and telling us the price is a step where that stops happening.
Sign-in emails now look like Coffee Near Me
Account emails now use our name, our sender address and clearer instructions about when each link expires.
The email that gets you into an account should make it obvious who sent it and how long the link will work. Ours now does.
What changed
Sign-in and email confirmation messages now carry Coffee Near Me branding from a verified sender.
The message tells you when the link expires, including the shorter one-hour window for a sign-in link.
Each email keeps the direct link visible as a fallback if the button does not open.
Why it matters
Account emails are easier to recognise and less likely to leave you guessing about whether an old link will still work.
Most of what lands here started as something a person told us was wrong or missing.