Key takeaway
You remember a group name and the street is gone. Meeting Guide can search by location or by keyword, and the list refreshes twice a day. The listings come from more than 500 entities and over 150,000 weekly meetings. If the name is missing, that entity may not have sent it. Corrections go through the app to the local entity.
Last updated: Tue Oct 06 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Somebody told you the name. You can almost say it. The street is gone. Maybe you wrote it on a receipt and washed the receipt. Maybe you were ashamed to ask them to repeat the address, and now you are on a corner with a meeting in your mouth and no door in front of you. You can search the name. You do not have to reconstruct the block.
Meeting Guide lets you search by location or by keyword. A group name is a keyword. Type the words you trust. Leave off the ones you are inventing to sound sure. The list that comes back shows time, location, and name. Open the detail view. Format notes the group provided, if they provided any, are in there. Match the name you remember against the name on the row before you walk.
The app is free, on iOS and Android. Listings refresh twice a day. The information comes from more than 500 A.A. service entities. Over 150,000 weekly meetings are listed. Local entities control those listings and provide them voluntarily. A search tonight is looking at what they sent, not at every group that has ever existed in your head.
If the name is not there
A missing name usually means the local entity has not sent that meeting. It can also mean you remember a nickname and the listing uses a plainer title. Try a single word you are sure of. Try the neighborhood as a location search, then scan names. Do not decide the group died because one search came up empty.
The find-A.A. page on aa.org is not a searchable meeting list. It sends you toward local A.A. resources, and it includes a pointer for online meetings. The app has more than one way to find a local contact. Ask that contact for the group by the name you remember. Say you do not have the address. That is a normal thing to admit. People who answer local A.A. phones have heard it.
There is no support email to guess at, and no city hotline is printed for this search. The correction path, when a listing is wrong, is the link inside the app. That link goes to the local entity that provided the listing. The wrong-listing guide is for the moment you already traveled and the door was shut. Use it after you have a real address, not as a substitute for the keyword search.
The meetings search on this site is a second place to try the same name. Listings there are not verified here. If the name appears on this site and not in the app, or the other way around, believe the local contact over either screen. The finder guide and the app guide show the same tools with less panic in the margins.
When you would rather not roam
Walking block to block to test a half-remembered name gets old, and it gets unsafe. If you are lost, followed, hurt, or too sick to keep going, call 911. If the search itself is turning into a mental health crisis, call or text 988. Go inside somewhere public, or go home, and search from a chair.
An online meeting or a phone meeting does not need the street you forgot. If the named group is dark tonight, another meeting can still be on the list. You can listen when you get there. You do not have to announce that you lost the address. Anyone with a desire to stop drinking is welcome. There are no dues or fees. The listening guide covers the hour after you arrive.
A correct name is still not medical care. NIDA is plain that mutual-help groups are peer-led, not led by healthcare professionals, and not a substitute for treatment. A meeting is not detox. When someone who drinks heavily over time stops suddenly, NIAAA says alcohol withdrawal can be life-threatening. The group name will not treat that. SAMHSA runs a National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) that is free, confidential, and offered in English and Spanish. FindTreatment.gov lists licensed care.
Tonight
Type the name into Meeting Guide. Read the location that comes back. If nothing comes back, try a shorter word, then use the local contact in the app and ask. If you are not safe on the street, stop walking and call for help first.
If the name search is the wrong problem and you need treatment, call (800) 653-9376. Your phone bill does not get the charge. Treatment providers pay for the referral service. The line is not A.A., and it is not SMART Recovery.
You remembered the name. That is enough to start the search. The street can come from the listing, or from a person at the local entity, once you ask.
Additional Resources
Sources cited on this page:
- A.A.: Meeting Guide
- A.A.: Find A.A. Near You
- A.A.: What to Expect at an A.A. Meeting
- A.A.: Need help with a drinking problem?
- NIDA: Treatment, including mutual-help groups
- NIAAA Core Resource: Alcohol Use Disorder, From Risk to Diagnosis to Recovery
- SAMHSA: National Helpline
- SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- SmarterRecovery meetings page (public meeting search; listings are not verified)
- SmarterRecovery about this referral line
Common Questions
Can I search Meeting Guide with only a group name?
Yes. Meeting Guide lets you search by location or by keyword. A group name is a keyword. Type the words you actually remember, then read the rows that come back. Each row shows time, location, and name. Open the detail view for format notes the group provided, when they provided any. The app is free on iOS and Android. You do not need the street memorized before you start. If several groups use similar words, read the place and the day before you head out.
How fresh is that name search?
Listings refresh twice a day. The information comes from more than 500 A.A. service entities, and over 150,000 weekly meetings are listed. Local entities control their listings and provide them voluntarily. Twice a day is recent. It is not a promise that a group updated its name this afternoon. If you saved a screenshot, search again tonight. The meetings search on this site is a different list, and those listings are not verified here. Confirm the name against the app or a local contact.
What if the group I remember does not appear?
Then the local entity may not have sent that meeting. A missing name does not, by itself, prove the group ended. It can also mean the name in your memory is a nickname the listing does not use. Try the neighborhood, or a word you are sure of, instead of the whole title. aa.org does not contain a meeting finder. It points you to local A.A. resources. Use the app's ways to reach a local contact and ask for the group by the name you remember.
Who do I tell if the name or the address is wrong?
Use the links inside the app. Those links go to the local entity that provided the listing. That entity can correct what it controls. There is no support email for you to guess, and there is no city hotline printed here for you to call instead. If the listing shows a local contact, that contact is the person who knows the room. The wrong-listing guide walks the same correction path if you already traveled and the door was shut.
What if I am out walking and I do not feel safe?
Stop searching the sidewalk and call 911 if you are in danger or if you are sick. Call or text 988 if the hunt has turned into a mental health crisis. A meeting is peer support, not a rescue on a dark street. NIDA says mutual-help groups are peer-led, not led by healthcare professionals, and not a substitute for treatment. If heavy drinking stops suddenly, NIAAA says withdrawal can be life-threatening. Get care. The name search can wait until you are safe.