A shared map for the group chat. When you and a friend separately want the same place this week, locale tells you both. Quietly. No feed. No notifications you didn't ask for. No "people you may know."
When you and a friend separately want the same thing in the same window, locale tells you. Quietly. No public broadcast, no FOMO scoreboard.
Someone wants to try a place. Someone else mentions the show before it closes. Three people are nearby. Nobody knows. You text "what's everyone up to," six people answer late, and you end up nowhere. Again.
Google Maps shared lists are a dead-letter box. You add a pin. Nobody knows. They open the list once and never again.
Beli, Foursquare, every food app you've tried — they reward performing, not coordinating. You don't need ratings. You need to know who's in.
The good plan dies because Marco didn't read the chat until Saturday afternoon. By then everyone's already eaten somewhere else.
Collaborative lists, in real time. Filter by anything. Share with one link. Built for the group chat, not for the public.
You and your friends add to the same list at the same time. Pins appear live. Comments thread under each place.
By category. By city. By who-added. By tag. Hide the parkings when you're hungry, show only wine bars when you're not.
Public list URL for the world, or a member-only link for your circle. Open in any browser, on any phone. No app required to view.
Tap a place → "open in" → Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, Citymapper. We're the saved-places layer, not the navigation lock-in.
Bring your existing Google Maps lists — Want-to-go, Starred, your group's shared list — straight in. We handle the messy parts.
Every place you save matches against a verified canonical database of 23 million businesses. So a friend's "Bar Basso" and yours both resolve to the same Bar Basso — even if your coordinates were 800 meters off.
Most plans start the same way: someone wants something — to try a place, to catch the show before it closes, to just grab a drink somewhere tonight. You text three friends, two are busy, one's down but not for that. You end up nowhere.
Tag a place — or just an activity — with a time window. "Tonight." "This week." "Sometime." Pick who can see it: close friends, all friends, or just you.
Not just person-to-person. Group-to-group. A duo + a duo becomes a 4-top. Your circle + another circle fills a chef's-tasting. No host, no RSVP, no algorithm. Just "another party in your circles is also down. Coordinate?"
See a friend's intent? Ask to join. Never auto-added, no group chat ambush. The host accepts or doesn't. Open spots if there's room. Everyone keeps their dignity.
What actually happened gets pinned back to the place — who came, photos, the inside joke. Future you remembers. Future friends see it too.
Spontaneous nights, by design. Locale is the only app that engineers IRL combinations between groups — not just individuals.
Not for influencers. For people you'd actually call.
Social made places into content. Somewhere to be photographed, rated, performed. That isn't what places are. Places are where you go, with the people you trust. locale is the quiet tool that makes that easier — not louder.
Parties, raves, and ticketed events come later. First, the everyday.
An app's character shows up in what it refuses to ship. We've thought about ours.
When friends are on it, you'll know. Until then, nothing to do but get on the list.