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.
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.