Outwork shows cafés near you where you can work on a laptop. People sitting there say if there are seats, how loud it is and how fast the wifi is. Where enough people do, you see which cafés have seats free now.
Free. No download. No booking. No account needed to browse.
Good afternoon.
Places to try near Hatton Garden.
No seat updates here yet. In one of these cafés? Say how busy it is.
This is Clerkenwell, London, today. The app uses your own location.
There are three screens. These show real cafés in London today.
Good afternoon.
Places to try near Hatton Garden.
No seat updates here yet. In one of these cafés? Say how busy it is.
Open it and the first thing you read is where to go. Areas with seats come first, then the shortest walk. The circle counts the cafés in an area: 2/3 means two of three have seats.
A café can set the hours laptops are welcome and one rule, like “One order every 2 hours”. You see both before you walk over.
When you sit down, say how busy and how loud it is. Tap once for each. You can test the wifi too. This needs a free account: your email, no password.
A seat update is only as good as its age. It is shown in full for five minutes, then its text gets paler until it is 40 minutes old, and stays pale after that. The circle around it empties at the same speed.
So “Seats free” from two minutes ago looks certain, and “Seats free” from half an hour ago looks like what it is: old news. Paler text means an older update.
Updates come from people who say they are in the café, or from the café itself. Each one shows how old it is.
You choose the hours laptops are welcome and one rule for laptop workers. People see both before they walk over, and leave when those hours end.