How we verify listings
TintScout lists 20,348 window tinting shops across 3,932 US cities. This page explains where that data comes from, what a business needs to be included, and how the shops on each page are ordered.
Where the data comes from
Listings are compiled from public business data: the name, city, phone number, website, services, and Google rating that each business publishes itself. We do not scrape private information, and we do not write or edit reviews. Descriptions on this site are written by us; we never republish another site's text.
What a shop needs to be listed
Before a business appears on TintScout, it has to pass three checks:
- It offers window tinting. Auto glass repair, window cleaning, and detailing businesses that do not tint are filtered out. When our confidence that a business tints is low, we leave it out.
- It has a working phone number, because calling the shop is the whole point of a directory.
- It has a real name and location we can place in a city and state.
Roughly 90% of listed shops (18,291 of 20,348) carry a public Google rating. Shops without reviews are still listed, but they show no stars rather than an invented number.
How shops are ordered
City pages rank shops by their Google rating and review volume, with a small boost for having a working website. That is the whole formula. No shop can pay to move up, and we take no commission or booking fee, so the order you see is the order the data supports.
Where the ratings come from
Every star rating and review count is read from that shop's public Google Business profile and shown as-is, with the review count next to it. The numbers match the most recent snapshot of our dataset, not live Google, so a rating can lag by a few weeks after a shop gets new reviews. We refresh the dataset and rebuild every page from it, rather than editing pages by hand.
The tint-law tables
The legal VLT limits on each state page are compiled from state vehicle codes and published state-law summaries, and we review them when we update the site. Tint laws change and enforcement varies, so we say the same thing on every page that shows them: confirm with your state DMV or a local shop before installing. The full table is in ourstate-by-state tint law guide.
What we do with near-empty pages
Some small towns have only one or two verified shops. Those pages stay on the site because they are still useful if you live there, but we exclude city pages with fewer than 3 listings from search engines. We would rather show a short honest page than pad it to look bigger.
Spotted an error?
If a listing is wrong, closed, or missing, or you run a shop and want to correct your details, contact us and we will check it against the source data.