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Email and password
The familiar way. An encrypted backup lets you recover your account on a new phone.
Your private connection book
See which friends are home, wherever you travel.
Grava shows you which friends live in the city you are visiting, and lets you share a trip only with the people you choose. Private by design. A city, never your location.
Now in early testing on iPhone. Free, with no ads.
Sample cities · drag to turn
01 Privacy
What Grava never does.
- No GPS
- Grava knows the home city you type in. It never asks for your location.
- No address-book upload
- If you choose to match your contacts, that happens on your phone. Your address book is never sent anywhere.
- No ads, no analytics
- Nothing in the app tracks what you do, so there is nothing to sell.
- No public directory
- Nobody can look you up. People connect only through an invitation you hand them.
- No reading your updates
- Trips and profile updates are end-to-end encrypted. The servers that carry them cannot read them.
02 How it works
Three steps, and none of them is a map pin.
1.0 Connect
Trade an invitation
Share a signed invitation by QR code or link. You see each other's profile only after you have both accepted.
2.0 Settle
Set your home city
Pick the city you call home. That is all Grava needs to know about where you are.
3.0 Travel
Share a trip
Add a destination and dates, then pick exactly who hears about it. Grava shows which friends call that city home.
03 Features
Small on purpose.
Mutual by default
A friend sees your profile only after you have both said yes.
Matching on your phone
Trips are compared with friends' home cities on the device, not on a server.
End-to-end encrypted
Updates are encrypted before they leave your phone.
You pick the audience
Every trip goes only to the people you select for it.
Calendar, if you want it
Optionally keep trips in a separate Grava calendar on your phone.
Leave any time
Block, report, or delete your account and its data from inside the app.
04 Accounts
Two ways to hold your account.
Self-held
Your own key
Keep your identity yourself with 24 recovery words. It uses Nostr, an open standard for identities that no company controls. If you lose the words, nobody can restore the account, including us.
Either kind of account can connect with the other.
Know who is home before you land.
Grava is in early testing. Ask for an invitation and we will send you one.