Go to "Sign up", choose email + password or sign in with Google. The confirmation email arrives within seconds.

Yes: as a guest you can browse the home, Explore, the map and place pages. To save places, build routes, vote and collect badges you need a free account. Friend network and messages are used in the Android app.

From the login page tap "Reset password": we'll send a link to set a new one.

Yes, from profile settings. You'll get a confirmation email at the new address before the change takes effect.

From profile settings, tap "Delete account". The action is permanent and removes all your personal data.

Yes, everything is free for now. And for those who contribute today — with suggestions and edits — there will be no future costs: your access stays free. Locaria is open source and ad-free, supported by voluntary donations.

On GDPR-compliant European servers. The Privacy page details which data we collect and how we handle it.

No: we automatically strip EXIF metadata (including coordinates) before uploading any photo to our servers.

Yes. You can request export or deletion from profile settings, or by writing to the address listed in the Privacy Policy.

Never. The project is free, open source and supported only by voluntary donations. No ad trackers.

Routes you create are private unless you choose to make them public. Your visits and saved places stay private; a public profile is optional.

Make sure your browser/OS has notification permissions enabled for Locaria. On iOS, web notifications require installing the PWA first.

Tap the bell in the top bar: it collects your contribution outcomes, level-ups and Locaria announcements.

Check microphone permissions in your browser. On mobile: hold the button and speak after the small initial cue.

Offline data syncs the first time you go back online. Open the app while connected and wait a few seconds: sync is automatic.

Partly, and only with the Android app. The catalogue lives on your phone: pages, search and flavours can be browsed with no network, GPS navigation still works, and whatever you mark or write with no signal is sent by itself as soon as you're back online. The limit is the map background: you only see the areas you already looked at while online, because tiles stay in a cache — so it's worth opening the route at home and scrolling through it before you leave. Downloading a whole route for offline use is planned but isn't there yet. The website does not work without a connection.

When the "Install" banner appears, tap it. Otherwise, from the browser menu choose "Add to Home screen" (Android) or share → "Add to Home Screen" (iOS Safari).

Refresh the page and check your connection. If the issue persists, try clearing the browser cache for this domain.

Yes, it's in beta. Turn it on from your profile: tap the theme toggle to switch between dark and light.

Not yet, neither on the Play Store nor the App Store. On Android the app is downloaded from our own site: the file, the requirements and the three installation steps are on the “Download the app” page. On iPhone there's only the web app for now: in Safari, Share → Add to Home Screen. The Android app has what a browser can't do: GPS navigation even with the screen off, GPX track recording, photos that keep their location, voice dictation for suggestions, and a catalogue you can browse with no network.

All contributions go through a brief moderation step to avoid duplicates and incorrect content. Check status in Dashboard → My contributions.

Open the place, flavor or highlight page and use the report option: your correction proposal goes to moderation and gets reviewed.

A Flavor is a typical dish/drink of a region or country. A Highlight is a specific detail of a place (a fresco, a statue, a piece of trivia).

By visiting places, tasting flavors or making approved contributions. Thresholds are 25% (bronze), 50% (silver), 75% (gold), 100% (platinum) of the category total.

You earn experience points (XP) through activity on Locaria: approved suggestions, tasted flavors, check-ins and completed routes. Past certain thresholds you level up; your profile shows your current level and how much XP is left to the next one.

Submit 10 contributions that get approved: you unlock the gold badge, and your future suggestions are published without waiting for moderation.

From your profile tap "Become an Editor" and send your application: an admin reviews it and you get a notification with the outcome. Editors can publish places directly and moderate the community's contributions — a broader role than the "Trusted" user, who only gets immediate publishing of their own suggestions.