Localsville is a free mobile app for meeting the people and places in your own community. You browse the neighbours near you, see what they do and what they offer, and start a conversation.
It is built and operated by Localsville LLC, a United States company, and published at localsville.com. The first community launch is on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.
There are two kinds of profile: a Person — a neighbour — and a Place — a business, a community space or something happening in community life.
No. Localsville is a discovery app for a community, not a marketplace. The first thing you meet is a person, not a listing, and what someone offers is shown as part of who they are rather than as a catalogue.
People can offer things and services, and money can change hands — but a profile does not need to sell anything to belong here. Plenty of profiles exist only to say who someone is and what they care about.
Discover deliberately shows more People than Places, and nothing in the ordering responds to sales, popularity or spending.
Anyone who lives in a community Localsville has reached — neighbours who want to know who is around them, people who do something others might want, and the local businesses, community spaces and community groups that make a place what it is.
You do not have to sell anything, run a business, or have a skill to offer. Being a neighbour is enough.
Localsville is starting on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, and is building out community by community. That is where the app is being introduced first and where the people and places on it are today.
The app itself is a United States app and works with validated U.S. communities, so it can be opened elsewhere in the country — but a community only becomes useful once neighbours there actually join it. If Localsville has not reached you yet, you will find an empty neighbourhood rather than a busy one.
Localsville is not available outside the United States.
No — but Oʻahu is where it is starting. Localsville is a U.S. app and is not limited to Hawaiʻi by design; Oʻahu is simply the first place it is being built out properly, community by community.
The Local Partner program is organised by U.S. state and covers all fifty states plus the District of Columbia, which is the clearest signal of where Localsville intends to go.
A community is the real town or neighbourhood your profile belongs to — Kailua, Kāneʻohe, Mānoa and so on. It is the unit Localsville organises everything around.
Communities are validated against real U.S. place names, so an invented town cannot be created. Discover shows you your own community, which is why Localsville feels local rather than national.
Your community is chosen when you create a profile, and it can be changed later.
You choose your community when you create your profile, and you can change it later by editing the profile. Localsville can suggest one from your location if you let it, or you can pick a town by name instead.
If you move, change the community on your profile so your neighbours are the right ones. Changing it moves where you appear in Discover.
Browsing is separate from belonging: you can look at another community without changing where your own profile lives.
Download the app, then sign in with your phone number. Localsville is on the App Store and Google Play, and it is free.
You can look around before you sign in. An account is only required when you want to take part — message someone, save a profile, or create a profile of your own.
Creating a profile is a separate step from creating an account, and it is optional.
No — you can browse Localsville without an account. Discover, profiles and what people offer are all visible to a guest.
You need to sign in to do anything that involves another person: sending a message, saving a profile, requesting something, or creating a profile of your own.
This is deliberate. The people on Localsville are real neighbours, and someone contacting them should be one too.
You can browse Discover, open any public profile, and see what a Person or Place offers — including their photos, their story and their opening information — without signing in.
What you cannot do as a guest is take part: messaging, saving, requesting and creating all ask you to sign in first.
Because a phone number is the simplest honest proof that there is a real person there. Localsville is about meeting actual neighbours, and an anonymous email address does not carry that weight.
It also means there is no password to forget, reuse or have stolen. You enter your number, we text you a code, and that is the whole sign-in.
Phone sign-in is the only way in — there is no email-and-password, Google or Apple sign-in option. U.S. numbers only.
No. Your phone number is how you sign in, not something on your profile. It is not shown on your public profile, not shown in Discover, and not given to other neighbours.
If you want someone to be able to call you, that is your choice to share in conversation.
iPhone and Android. Localsville is a mobile app; get it from the download page.
There is no web version of the app — localsville.com is the public website, not the product. Public profile pages can be viewed in a browser when someone shares a link.
Nothing today. Creating a Place profile, publishing what you offer, adding photos and opening information, and talking to neighbours are all free, and Localsville is not taking a commission from you because in-app payment is switched off.
Localsville leads with people rather than listings, and sells nothing to change that. There are no ads, no sponsored placements and no way to pay for a better position — the order you see is not for sale.
It is also small on purpose. Discover is scoped to your own community rather than to a whole city or country, so what you see is genuinely near you.
And a profile does not have to be commercial. Someone can be on Localsville simply because they live here.
Localsville does not sell advertising, does not rate or rank people by popularity, does not run background checks, and does not currently process payments between neighbours.
It also has no star ratings or public reviews, no cashback or rewards program, and no way to buy visibility.
Some of these are deliberate and permanent — advertising and paid ranking. Others are simply not switched on yet, and this Help Center says which is which.
A Person is a neighbour. A Place is somewhere. If what you offer is something you personally do, that belongs on a Person profile; if it is a shop, a space or something happening in the community, that is a Place.
Only a Person can offer services and experiences. A Place lists items, and has a cover banner and a kind.
One account can have one Person profile and up to ten Places, so you can have both.
