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Find your kind
of coffee shop.
Coffee Bud is the map of independent and small-chain cafes near you. No big chains. No Yelp tier-lists. Save the drinks you actually like, find them nearby, and check in with friends.
Built by coffee people · Tested in 47 cafes · No chains, ever
THE MAP
Every indie cafe within walking distance.
A curated map of independent and small-chain coffee shops. Pinned by category — espresso bar, matcha, roastery, bakery — so a list of twenty cafes reads as twenty different places, not twenty mugs in a row. Big chains never appear.
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YOUR DRINKS
Save three drinks. We light up cafes that serve them.
Tell us you love a cortado, a pour-over, and an iced oat latte. Coffee Bud highlights cafes whose menus include them — pulled from real OCR scans and AI-extracted menus, not algorithmic guesses.
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RIGHT NOW
See which friends are at a cafe.
When a friend checks in, you see them online. When they leave, they drop off. It's the third place, with presence — like Venmo for coffee.
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MAKE A HABIT
Streaks, ranks, and the cafes you keep coming back to.
Weekly check-in streaks. Lifetime ranks. Your most-visited spots. The product remembers your regulars so you don't have to.
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WHAT WE BELIEVE
We don't index chains.
Yelp shows you the best place. Google Maps shows you the closest place. Coffee Bud shows you the place a regular would send their friend to — the indie that gets your drink right, the cart that opens at 6am, the library cafe nobody's blogged about.
The third place, mapped.
Join the waitlist — we'll email you when Coffee Bud goes live on the App Store.