Dial in your next cup.

Now on the App Store and Google Play

• Your Dial is public — anyone can install it, no invite or test link needed. It stays free, with no ads and no sponsored placements.

Custom filters, from the start

• Custom is there the first time you open Filters, instead of appearing only once you’d already built something custom — which meant the way in was hidden behind the thing it led to.
• It starts from wherever you were: switch from Specialty or Top Picks and Custom opens already set to that preset’s rating, so you adjust one thing rather than rebuilding from nothing.

If you’d like to chip in

• There’s an optional tip jar for anyone who wants to support development. It’s entirely optional — nothing in the app is locked, and nothing changes if you never touch it.

What you save is yours, on every device

• Favourites, hidden places, the places you added and the things you reported now live with your account — sign in on another device and they’re all there. They used to sit on one phone.
• Un-hiding sticks: bring a place back on one device and it stays back, instead of returning later from a device that hadn’t caught up.
• Reported something? It stays hidden for you everywhere. Your report was recorded on the server while the “hide it from me” half stayed on one device.
• A café you favourited in another city now turns up in search, wherever you are.
• Saved things before signing in? Creating an account brings them with you.

Your privacy, tightened

• Deleting your account now deletes everything — on our servers as well as on the device.
• An unfinished review can’t be seen by the next person to sign in. A draft you hadn’t submitted was saved per place rather than per account, so it sat waiting in the form on a shared phone.
• Your tag habits are yours. The counts that order filter chips used to be shared by everyone who signed in on the same device.

Your tags show up instantly

• A tag you add is on the place right away. Tags used to need several people before they appeared at all, so adding one looked like nothing happened — the community count still decides when everyone sees it.
• Your own tags filter your feed too: pick one in Filters and the places you tagged actually match.
• Reuse tags you’ve written before on any other place instead of retyping them.
• Filters match what the community said, not just Google’s yes/no flags — so food and amenity filters find places Google never labelled.

Map & search

• Searching a new area returns that area. Some results were coming from wherever you’d been before — occasionally hundreds of miles away.
• Tapping a search result responds immediately, instead of sitting there for a couple of seconds like a dead tap.
• A saved place appears once, not twice — a favourite and Google’s own entry for the same café were showing up separately.
• “Search this area” appears when you’ve moved somewhere new, not every time the map recentres itself.
• Turning filters off really turns them off — a clean slate, not the default preset still quietly applied.
• Dense areas no longer stop short. Where a city held more cafés than could come back at once, the extras were silently dropped.

Closed cafés

• Permanently closed places are out of the feed instead of sending you to a shuttered door.
• Temporarily closed ones say so — on the tile, the place card and the hours — rather than a plain “Closed” that reads like it’s just after hours.

Nothing happens silently

• Reporting, flagging, withdrawing and deleting show they’re working, and tell you when they fail. These used to assume success: if the write never reached the server, the app looked like it had worked anyway.
• Flagging a place can’t hang forever — if the network stalls it gives up and tells you, instead of leaving the screen up with no way out.
• Signing in shows progress and surfaces failures instead of stalling.
• You can’t report your own tags — there was nothing there to moderate.

When there’s nothing to show

• The empty screen tells you which kind of empty it is — genuinely quiet nearby, or filters too tight — and when it’s the filters, it points you at the button that fixes it.
• Hidden places can always be brought back. Everything you’ve hidden is listed in Profile → Hidden by you, each with a Withdraw.

Fixes

• Photos that fail to load fall back to the warm coffee backdrop instead of an empty frame.
• Rating-only reviews display properly rather than as a blank card.
• Long tag names stop being cut off — chips fit their text and wrap.
• A filter you’ve selected stays deselectable even after its option drops off the list.
• Consistent 16pt screen margins across the app.

A rating that knows what it’s rating

• Scores now judge the coffee, not the business — so they’ve moved on purpose. Google stars rate the whole place; a beloved bakery’s 4.8 says nothing about its espresso.
• Places built around coffee score higher, and spots where coffee is a sideline score lower. A 9.0 stays hard-earned — that boost alone can’t reach the top band.
• The same score now drives everything: the badge on a place, the Specialty and Top Picks collections, the order places appear in, and the rating filter. So a well-rated sandwich shop no longer turns up under Specialty.
• Ratings are weighed against the hype — a 4.9 from eight reviews no longer outranks a 4.9 earned over thousands.

Fixes

• Editing your own review works again — it used to spin and fail if your review had been verified or moderated.
• Review tags stop jumping around: in fixed lists like Atmosphere (Relaxed → Lively) chips hold their order instead of leaping to the front when picked.
• “Reviews” on a place now lands on the Leave Review button instead of scrolling past it.
• Pull-to-refresh keeps the area you searched — refreshing after panning to another city no longer snaps back to where you’re standing.
• Spacing polish between sections in the review flow and Filters.

A new grid view

• Big overhaul of the place list — it’s now a grid view that’s quicker to scan and more useful for exploring.
• Tap a place to open its details right in the list — no jumping to a separate screen.

Your reports, in one place

• New “Hidden by you” screen in your Profile lists everything you’ve hidden — places, tags, and reviews — each with a one-tap Withdraw to bring it back and take back your report.
• Clearer timestamps everywhere: “5 mins ago”, “2 months ago” — no more ambiguous “m”.

Polish

• “Settings” is now “Profile”, with a matching icon.
• Withdrawing a report now fully clears it — the place comes right back for you.

Distance & hours

• Distances are now measured from where you are — a place you’re browsing in another city no longer shows a misleading tiny distance.
• “Open now” respects each place’s own timezone, so travelling or roaming no longer wrongly hides spots that are actually open.

Smarter filters

• The place count now matches what’s on the map and list — no more phantom results.
• Pan the map to a new area and the refresh button appears, so you can re-search wherever you’ve moved — not only after changing a filter.
• Changing any filter turns filters back on if you’d switched them off, so your tweaks always take effect.
• Review tags are ordered by popularity too, matching the filter chips.

Fixes

• The Filters refresh button no longer occasionally reads see-through, and its icon is optically centered.

Share & discover

• Share a coffee spot — send any café with a friendly message and a link that previews the place by name and opens it right in the app.
• The share button now stays visible on a place card — no scrolling to find it.

Smarter filters

• Filter options are ordered by popularity — the picks people actually want (latte, cappuccino, flat white…) show first instead of hiding under “More.”
• The price filter is taking a break while we make it community-powered — Google’s café prices weren’t reliable.

Support & account

• Support Your Dial on Ko-fi — an optional tip (the coffee kind!) that helps cover running costs like maps and servers, so the app can stay free and ad-free. Find it in Settings.
• Delete your account anytime from Settings.

Tablets & onboarding

• Onboarding now lays out correctly on tablets, in both portrait and landscape.

On iOS

• Native Liquid-Glass controls and close buttons, with polish throughout.

Fixes

• 7-inch tablet onboarding overflow, a see-through button on the Filters screen (iOS), and a redundant close button on Android pop-ups.

New

• Drinks filters & tags — find and tag places by specific drinks (flat white, red eye, americano, latte, cortado…), separate from brew methods.
• Search inside filter categories — big filter groups now have a search box and a More expander, so you can find a tag fast.
• Report inappropriate content — flag a bad tag or review; it's hidden for you instantly, and taken down for everyone once enough people report it.

Improved

• Tags work across languages — the same idea in different languages merges into one tag instead of duplicating (e.g. шмель ↔ bumblebee). Currently only supports RU and ENG.
• Full RU + ENG labels on every filter option.
• Smoother reviews — steps now slide, the buttons stay put while content moves, tag search is available while you review, and a spinner shows while your review saves.

New

• First internal test build.