Find your people.
Keep your weekends full.
Local1 is the European nonprofit alternative to Meetup. Hobby groups, professional meetups and new friends in your city. Free for everyone, with no one to sell it to.
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What are you into?
All 42 interests →Happening this week in Prague
86 events →
Like Meetup, minus the part where it gets sold.
Meetup has had three owners since 2017 and organizers pay for every one of them. Local1 is a European nonprofit. Nobody can buy it, and nobody has to.
Local1
- Owned by a European nonprofit association
- Free for members and organizers
- Data on EU servers, GDPR by design
- No ads, no tracking, no data sales
- Can't be sold. It's in the statutes.
Meetup.com
- Owned by a US for-profit company
- Monthly subscription for organizers
- Data stored in the United States
- Ads and tracking
- Sold in 2017, 2020 and 2024
Three steps, then real life
Pick your interests
Tell us what you love and where you live. That's the sign-up.
Follow groups, RSVP
See what's on this week and save your spot in one tap.
Show up
Say hi. The rest sorts itself out over coffee, code or a trail.
Start a group.
Pay nothing, ever.
Event pages, RSVPs, waitlists, reminders, co-organizers. Export your member list any time. Your community is yours.
“I moved to Prague knowing nobody. Three months of Thursday board games later, I have a flat-warming guest list.”
“We ran our Python meetup on Meetup for six years. Moving 900 members over took one evening and saves us €300 a year.”
“The founders breakfast is where I found my co-founder. No pitch decks, just coffee and people who show up every Friday.”
Questions people ask
Is it really free?
Yes, for members and organizers. No premium tier, no paywall around meeting people.
Then how is Local1 funded?
Voluntary member contributions, grants and donations. No ads, no data sales. Accounts published yearly.
Can I move my Meetup group over?
Yes. Export from Meetup, upload the file, and your members get a friendly invite.
Who runs Local1?
A nonprofit association registered in the Czech Republic, governed by its members. Anyone can join and vote.
Where is my data stored?
On servers in the EU. Download or delete everything about you in one click.