The anti-feed neighborhood app
A live map where neighbors ask for a hand, find the lost cat, and keep an eye on a home — then talk it over, circle up with their building, and announce the street dinner. No phone number, no email, no real name required.
Not just a phone in your pocket
One account, every device: start on the phone, link the laptop with a one-time code from My door, and the same map, threads and circles spread out across the desktop browser — installable there too.
Two moments we built for
Pick your dates and how often you’d like a look. A neighbor taps “I’ll keep an eye out” and sends one-tap check-in reports — door locked, mailbox emptied, all good — straight to your pocket on the beach. Home watch is a verified-neighbor ask, and your away dates stay hidden from anyone unverified.
Someone else’s parcel at your door? Pick their door on the map, add a note — “ring after five” — and it quietly rings their in-app doorbell. No phone numbers exchanged, ever.
And the everyday in between
Every ask lands as a pin on the living map — a door with several asks folds into one counted pin, and a satellite view helps you tell roof from roof. The feed underneath comes comfy or compact, your pick.
Pass things on, three doors down.
Missing pets and things — lost, or found.
A ladder beats buying a ladder.
Misdelivered deliveries find their owners.
Ten minutes of carrying, watering, walking.
Eyes on your place while you’re away.
Water’s off Tuesday. Fill a kettle.
Your own label, for the asks we didn’t predict.
Beyond the asks
Every ask opens a thread, and direct messages carry on from there.
A private room for the people behind one front door — a building, a residence, a street.
Verified neighbors can tell the street: a dinner, roadworks, a found cat.
Start on the phone, link the laptop with a one-time code — no email, no phone number, no password.
Why it feels different
You show up as a nickname with a generated portrait — “Copper Kettle on Westerstraat”. Your real name is yours to share, per conversation, or never.
Your pin sits exactly on your door — or drifts ~50 meters when you flip the blur toggle. Either way, nobody else’s home is ever exposed.
One real address, checked against OpenStreetMap when you join — that’s how every door here is a real one. It’s shown to no one but you, ever.
Asks fade after two weeks. No archive of your street’s business, no feed to doom-scroll, no ads mining any of it — and one honest off-switch for notifications.
Real streets, real neighbors
Everyone on your map actually lives there — and proving it never involves documents. While Neighbr is young, new neighbors start out verified; as a street fills up, presence takes over.
Open the app near home on three different days. GPS confirms you’re near your own pin — the fix is kept coarse, and never shown to anyone.
A verified neighbor hands you a code — over the fence, on a card, in the hallway. A circle steward letting you in counts too. Instant.
Home-watch and heads-up asks, announcements, starting a circle. Trust is visible on every profile — and never invasive.
And when someone spoils it: block them in two taps, report to a human moderator, appeal if we get it wrong. Repeat harm means a ban — and a banned account loses the street.
Yes. No ads, no data sales — the map runs on generous free infrastructure and neighborly goodwill. If Neighbr ever costs money to run at scale, it’ll be funded like Hoplr (municipalities) or by optional supporter contributions — never by your attention.
No real names, no addresses shown to anyone, no crime-and-fear category, no algorithmic feed, no ads, and one notification switch that actually works. Neighbr is a tool you open when you need a neighbor — not a place to scroll.
So every door on the map is a real door: your address is validated against OpenStreetMap when you join, which keeps the street to actual neighbors. It’s never shown to anyone else — your map pin is a separate thing, placed exactly or blurred ~50 meters, whichever you choose.
Your device holds the key. Link a second device — the laptop, say — with a one-time code, and whenever you sign out, Neighbr hands you a recovery key that reopens the account anywhere. Keep it somewhere safe: with no email on file, nobody (including us) can reset what we never had.
Block a neighbor and they’re gone from your street in two taps. Reports go to a human, moderation is restorative first, and there’s an appeal if we get it wrong. Repeat harm means a ban — and a banned account loses the street. Verification keeps drive-by trolls out in the first place.
No — it’s a web app. Open it, and if you like it, “Add to Home Screen” makes it feel native: full screen, light or iOS-style dark theme, the works. It speaks English, French, German, and Spanish.