Find the spot
See what’s around you, including the places you’ve never walked into.
The personal cafe map app
The best café you haven’t tried is four blocks away.
You have a usual, and it’s fine. Nearby there’s a better table and a better cup that nothing you use will ever point you at. Kava remembers what each café was really like, and shows you the ones you haven’t tried.
Free, and yours alone. No public feed, no followers, no one grading your taste. Two taps to add a café.
01 / THE PROBLEM
Your usual isn’t your favourite.
It’s just the one you know.
You walk past a dozen cafés to reach the one you’re sure about. It’s fine. It’s also why you’ve never found the place that would have been yours.
Somewhere new is a gamble — a bad cup, no seat, nowhere to plug in, too loud to think. So you don’t risk it. And a stranger’s 4.6 on Google was never going to settle it for you.
Rate the cup
And the seat, and the noise. One line about what mattered is enough.
Watch it fill in
Your neighbourhood colours in. Then the one beside it.
02 / MADE FOR EXPLORING
How you find
the next one.
Kava
cafés
1%
of Toronto
8 cafés scratched
YOUR PROGRESS
Watch a whole
Watch a whole
city fill in.
Eight cafés is 1% of Toronto. That gap is what makes you walk four extra blocks.
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A scrapbook for coffee,
a map for what’s next.
Keep the memories. Find your next favourite.
03 / QUESTIONS
Everything about
the coffee app.
What is Kava?
Kava is a personal cafe map app. Add every coffee shop you visit, rate the cup, save a note, and build a private map of the places you’ve been and the ones you still want to try.
Is there an app to track coffee shops you’ve been to?
Yes, that is exactly what Kava does. Search a cafe nearby, add it to your map in a couple of taps, and watch your list of visited coffee shops grow across the city. See how it works.
When is Kava coming to iOS?
Kava arrives on the App Store this autumn. Leave your email and we’ll send the download link the day it opens.
Can anyone else see my reviews?
No. Kava has no public feed, no followers and no way for anyone to browse your map. Your ratings and notes are yours to read, so you can be as truthful as you want about every cup. What we store and why is set out in full in our privacy policy.
Do I have to log every single coffee?
No, and you shouldn’t. Add the cafes worth remembering and skip the petrol-station cup. Adding one takes a couple of taps, which is the whole point — a habit that costs real effort is a habit you drop by March.
Is Kava free?
Yes. Kava is free to use and no account is required to start mapping cafes.
Which cities does it work in?
Anywhere. Cafe search and neighbourhood progress work worldwide. Toronto is simply the city in our examples.
Can I share my coffee map with friends?
Yes. Kava turns your progress into a clean share card showing how much of your city you’ve scratched off. See the share card.
Will there be an Android version of Kava?
iPhone comes first. Join the notify list and you’ll be the first to hear when an Android version is scheduled.
Currently brewing
Coming soon
to iPhone.
Kava lands on the App Store this autumn. Between now and then you’ll buy a few hundred coffees, and most of them at the same place. Leave your email and we’ll send the link the day it opens.
Free, no account needed to start, and we only email you about the launch. Every change we ship is published openly in the release notes.
SOON ON THE
App Store