Know which cafés you can actually work from
Check the WiFi, outlets, seating and parking before you go, not after you've bought the coffee.
Over 850 cafés across Southern California, all scored the same way.
Free to download.
Four hours, a laptop, and a table that has to work
That is the afternoon Grounded is built for.
Everyone says work friendly. Nobody means the same thing.
When someone calls a café work friendly, they're telling you their afternoon went well. Theirs was an hour with a coffee. Yours is four hours, a laptop and a dying battery.
Same café. Same honest opinion. Completely different answer.
So we stopped asking whether people liked a place, and started measuring the same four things everywhere.
WiFi. Outlets. Seating. Parking.
Same four questions. Every café. Every time.
Every café gets a score out of 100, built from those four things and nothing else. Not vibes, not stars for the latte. Whether you can sit down and get your work done.
WiFi
Whether there's WiFi at all, and whether it holds up. Plus speed tests from people who were sitting right there.
Outlets
Plenty, a few by the window, or none at all. The difference between three hours and forty minutes.
Seating
How much there is, from plenty down to almost none. Whether you sit down or turn around.
Parking
Free lot, street, metered or nothing. The thing every other list leaves out, and the reason you circle the block.
Every café is measured the same way, so the number is worth sorting by. Filter for what you need today and it means the same thing everywhere on the list.
Somebody is in there right now
The score tells you what a café is set up for. The people working in it today tell you how fast the WiFi actually is, how busy it is, how loud, and whether the outlets are taken.
Nobody at Grounded scores a café from a desk.
Every score comes from someone who was actually in the room. WiFi tested on the spot. Outlets counted. A seat someone found on a Tuesday at two.
We check the things that don't change, like whether there's parking out back. We don't score the coffee.
A score isn't the whole story either. A café that was quiet in March can be all laptops by June. That's what the live conditions are for, and why something reported an hour ago beats a score from last spring.
650 cafés in Los Angeles alone
We're deepest in Southern California and still adding. If the café you work from isn't on here yet, you can suggest it.
- 650
- Los Angeles
- 107
- Orange County
- 67
- San Diego
- 42
- Long Beach
Los Angeles
- About Time100
- And Destroy Coffee & Gaming95
- Alchemist Coffee Project93
Santa Monica
- Kavahana100
- Santa Monica Proper Hotel93
- Amai coffee85
Pasadena
- Atelier Pasadena100
- Copa Vida93
- Criterion coffee88
Somewhere else?
Tell us where you are. It counts toward the next city we score.
What people say
“I hate showing up to a coffee shop only to find out they don't have wifi or enough outlets. This app lets me check all of that before I go, which saves me so much time.”
Billie · App Store review
From reviews on the App Store.
Read them on the App Store →“I find cool new coffee shops around me. I'm a remote worker so it's super helpful to see if there are outlets and the vibe of the cafe.”
“From helping me save time to find a coffee shop with what I need, to being able to save all of my past visits in one spot. It's been a game changer in helping me maximize my work sessions.”
Find your spot before you leave the house
Free to download.