Sip: The Social Cafe App

Sip is a café app for Los Angeles that answers the question every other café app skips: which café is actually worth going to?

Most ratings are a single number stitched together from anonymous reviews. You don't know what those people drank. Sip is built the other way round. The unit of content is a sip: one drink, at one café, with a photo and a rating. A café's score comes from the drinks people actually logged there — so it tells you something you can act on.

THOUSANDS OF REAL LA CAFÉS The map covers cafés across Los Angeles, built from open map data and checked against real listings — coffee shops, roasteries, matcha bars, tea houses, boba and bakeries.

RATE THE DRINK, NOT THE VIBE Log what you ordered, add a photo, rate it. Over time a café's page fills up with the drinks people actually liked, so you walk in knowing what to ask for.

POST FROM ANYWHERE Log a sip about any café whenever you get to it, with a photo from the moment or from your camera roll. Add a place that isn't on the map yet, and edit a sip after you post it.

FRIENDS WHOSE TASTE YOU TRUST See where friends have been and what they ordered. Share cafés, save them to your lists, and get a recommendation from a person instead of an average.

BADGES THAT COME FROM WHAT YOU DRINK Your profile grows out of your own habits — your regular café, the drink family you keep coming back to, the people you go with.

YOURS TO CONTROL Every sip is public, friends-only, or private, and you choose per sip. You can hide your presence entirely, export a copy of your data, and delete your account from inside the app.

Sip is operated by Ottoco LLC.