To chat with the people around the corner — for no reason, just because.
Other networks only know the moment. Snakken knows two things: what is happening right now — and what is here to stay. Both live in the same feed. No switching, no modes.
A note on the digital bulletin board: spare moving boxes, a tip, a question. It expires once it has served its purpose — keeping the feed clean.
The café, the bookshop, the corner store. Fixed points in your neighbourhood you can always find again — showing you what is on there today.
A public viewing at the bar, a Tuesday run, a flea market. One tap — count me in — and you see who else is going. When it is over, it clears away.
The run club, the brunch club. Neighbourhood communities built around their next event — not another feed to scroll.
Places and people flow together in a single stream. You see what is going on right now, who is new and what is here for good — without searching.
App-only, on purpose. Your neighbourhood does not happen at a desk — Snakken lives on the phone in your pocket, not in a browser tab.
Snakken works precisely at neighbourhood level. Not the anonymous big city, but exactly the part of it that concerns you — small enough to be relevant, big enough that something is always happening.
Your feed is not optimised to keep you hooked. It is ordered by what is near, new and local — the newest things carry the most weight — and nothing in it is tuned for screen time. You decide what matters.
We do not sell you. Your exact location never leaves your device — we only know your neighbourhood, never your address.
Servers in the EU, GDPR as the foundation rather than a footnote. A social network built on European values: private, fair, transparent.
The short version of everything above — and the things people ask us most.
Snakken is a hyperlocal social network — a neighbourhood app for the places and people right around you. One feed shows what is happening in your part of town: posts, events, places and groups. No global audience, and no algorithm optimising for your attention.
Yes. Snakken is free to use, ad-free, and we do not sell your data. There is no algorithm optimised for your attention — the feed shows what is happening nearby, ordered by how near, how new and how locally relevant it is.
Yes — a deliberately boring one. The feed is ordered by local relevance: how new something is (that dominates), how near it is, and a mildly weighted dose of neighbourhood activity. What it never does is optimise for engagement or screen time — there is no personalisation profile and nothing that learns what makes you linger. Geography is the algorithm: you see your neighbourhood, not what a model picks to keep you scrolling.
Snakken works at neighbourhood level, not city or world level, and it knows two streams of time: posts that expire once they have served their purpose, and places, events and groups that stay. It is a local community app built in Europe, with the GDPR as its foundation.
No. Your exact location never leaves your device. The app determines your neighbourhood cell on the phone itself, so our servers only ever learn which neighbourhood you are in — never your address or your coordinates.
No — Snakken is app-only, on purpose. Your neighbourhood happens out on the street, not at a desk, so Snakken comes along on your phone. There is no web app; this website is just our front door.
Snakken is made for European neighbourhoods — from Kreuzberg to Le Marais to Södermalm. The apps are on their way to the stores; once they launch, your neighbourhood opens up as soon as people there join.
Snakken is for everyone aged 16 or over.
Discover what is happening locally — the places, the people, the moment. Free, ad-free, from Europe.
Coming soon — the apps are on their way to the stores.