Places

What the Places tab is

Places is Stitch's local search feature for finding real businesses and locations — restaurants, shops, services, and more — without leaving the app. A place profile can show the business's address, phone number, website, hours, photos, and ratings, and lets you get directions in a tap.

Some places on Stitch are added and verified by their own owners or managers through a Places Business Account, and some are backed by data from Google Places and Google Maps. You do not need an account to search Places, view a profile, get directions, or leave a review — a Places Business Account is only required if you want to add, claim, or manage a listing (see Places Business Account).

Search for places near you or in a city

Open the Places tab and use the search bar to look for a category (like "coffee" or "plumber") or a specific business name. By default, Places searches near your current area if you allow location access.

1. Open the Places tab from the main tab bar.
2. Tap the search bar and type a business name or category, or tap a category pill to browse.
3. To search a different area, tap the location/city field and type a city or neighborhood instead of using your current location.
4. Tap a result to open its place profile.

How city suggestions and autocomplete work

As you type in the city/location field, Stitch suggests matching city names to help you find the right area quickly and avoid typos. Selecting a suggestion narrows your search to that city; you can also type a full city and state (like "Austin, TX") if your city isn't suggested, or clear the field to search near your current location again.

Opening a place profile

Tapping any result opens its place profile, which shows what's available for that business: name, category, rating and review count, address, phone number, website, hours (where listed), photos, and a Directions button. Not every section appears for every place — what's shown depends on how much information is available for that specific business (see below).

If the place has a verified owner, you may see an owner badge on the profile. This means the business completed Stitch's ownership verification process — it is not an independent guarantee of the business's quality or legitimacy.

How Google-backed place data works

Many results in Places come from Google Places and Google Maps. Where that's the case, the address, phone number, website, hours, ratings, photos, and Street View imagery you see are sourced from Google and shown with attribution — Stitch doesn't own that content. This lets Places cover a huge number of real businesses without every one needing to be manually added.

Businesses added directly by an owner or another Stitch user, on the other hand, are "manually created" listings that live entirely on Stitch. Both types of places can be searched, reviewed, and photographed the same way.

Why some places are missing photos, Street View, phone, or website

It's normal to see a place profile that's missing photos, Street View, a phone number, a website, or complete hours. For Google-backed places, this usually means that information simply isn't available in Google's data for that location — Stitch displays what Google provides and can't fill in gaps on its own. For manually created listings, it means whoever added the place didn't include that detail yet.

If you notice missing or outdated information, you can suggest an edit from the place profile (see Suggest an Edit). If you're the verified owner of the place, you can correct it directly.

Places Business Account and Business Plus

If you own or manage a business, you can create a Places Business Account to add a place, claim an existing one, verify ownership, and manage its details — see the Places Business Account guide to get started. Stitch may also offer an enhanced tier for business owners called Business Plus in the future; where it's mentioned in the app, treat it as a feature that may become available rather than something available today.