NomadMates vs Adopted Adults

NomadMates is the map and meetup app for people who travel. See where your mates are, meet people in every city you land in, and carry your whole travel life in one place. YOUR MATES, YOUR MAP - See your mates scattered across the world, or grouped by city. - Set how precisely each person sees you: country, city, or a rough block radius. Your raw GPS never leaves your phone. - Get a heads up when you and a mate land in the same city, then flip on Available to Meet. - Find people you may know through the mates you have in common. MEETUPS AND CITY LIFE - Create a meetup in seconds, for your mates or the whole city. - Join what is on where you are: dinners, hikes, coworking, nights out. - Every city has its own group chat. Drop in before you even arrive. VENUES - The group chat for your hostel, coliving or coworking space, without the WhatsApp chaos. - See who is staying, message the venue, and find what is on. NETWORKS - Bring a whole community with you: an alumni group, a nationality abroad, a coliving's past guests, a club with chapters everywhere. - One main channel for everyone, and a group for every city and country your people are in. - A map of where everybody is, by city. Counts only, never names or pins. - Invite codes you control, roles for the people who help you run it, and the whole thing manageable from your phone. STORIES AND THE GLOBAL MOMENT - Share a story from wherever the road has taken you. - Post your Global Moment and light up the map with everyone travelling right now. YOUR TRAVEL TOOLKIT - A passport map of every country you have set foot in. - Add your passports and see where each one can take you, visa-free. - A visa clock tracking your days, entries and expiry dates, so you never overstay. - Plan trips, float ideas, and see which mates overlap your route. - Split shared costs and settle up without the awkward maths. PRIVACY AND SAFETY, BUILT IN - Ghost mode hides you from everyone with one tap. Block means total invisibility. - Mark places as safe zones and quietly drop off the map whenever you are there. FREE, AND GENEROUS The map, your mates, meetups, venues, stories, privacy controls, chat, tap-to-translate messages, trips and Splits are free, always. It holds up on bad hotel wifi too: you can see when a screen is showing older data, and it refreshes the moment you are back online. MATES+ ($3/month, or $30/year for 2 months free) Lifts the limits and adds the deeper traveller toolkit: - A travellers-only room in every city, away from the usual swarm. - Saved searches and watched-city alerts. Get pinged when a mate or event matches. - Your arrival brief: trusted tips for a city, compiled before you land. - Automatic translation: whole chats translate as you scroll, no tapping. Translating one message is always free. - An unlimited personal map and shareable city lists. - A pinned trip plan with locked dates, a meeting point and an ordered stop list. - Recurring meetup series, templates and attendee export. - An opt-in public profile page to share how to meet you. - Clean CSV exports of your passport, splits and trips. - Unlimited Splits and trips. One Mates+ member lifts the cap for the whole group. - Extra profile photos and a Mates+ badge. - A fourth map style you design yourself: your own accent and basemap colours, and which labels and borders show. Colour, Theme and Satellite stay free. Cancel anytime in your store settings. No third-party ads. We never sell your data. Your mates' locations stay your mates' business.

Everyone has that one friend who lives somewhere interesting and happens to be a great host. You come stay, they cook for you, show you around, take you on the little adventures you'd never find on your own. Now imagine hundreds of those friends, in 566 cities and 74 countries. That's Adopted Adults. WHAT IT COSTS Nothing. The stay is free. No nightly rate, no cleaning fee, no resort fee for a resort you never saw. What it actually costs is a little awkwardness. Some small talk. A life story or two over breakfast. People told us that was too much to ask. We disagreed. HOW IT WORKS Everyone here hosts. That's the whole trick. You open your place up, and the door opens everywhere else too. 1. Build a real profile. Real photos, real answers, and you can verify your ID. 2. Browse adoptions. Not spare rooms, actual trips. A weekend of hiking. A food tour of a city you've never heard of. A cabin with a dog and a wood stove. 3. Start a convo. Talk first, plan it together, agree on the dates. 4. Go stay with someone who actually wants you there. WHY NOT JUST BOOK SOMETHING Airbnb has hosts. VRBO has hosts. But somewhere in there, "host" came to mean a lockbox and a welcome cookie. A good host cooks for you, shows you around, and somewhere along the way becomes your friend. There wasn't a word for that anymore, so we picked one. Here, you don't get hosted. You get adopted. SAFETY Adults only. Profiles are real people with real photos, members can verify their identity with a government ID, and every profile carries its history. One tap to report or block. Nobody here is anonymous. FOUNDING MEMBERS Our first 1,000 adopters keep it free for life.