Locus: Offline Chat Nearby

Locus shows you the people around you, right now - and lets you chat with them offline, with no internet at all.

At a gig, a festival, a conference, a campus, a bar - open Locus and see who else is here. Swipe, connect, start talking. No feed, no followers, no endless scroll. Just the room you're standing in.

OFFLINE CHAT, NO INTERNET NEEDED
Locus is an offline chat app. It finds people over Bluetooth, phone to phone, and works without internet, without wifi and without mobile data. Dead signal at the venue, data run out, airplane mode crowd, network outage - Bluetooth chat still works. No Wi-Fi router, no SIM, no account needed to start. When you do have a connection, your messages also reach people who have moved out of range.

HOW A MATCH WORKS
You see who else has Locus open nearby. Tap Connect on someone. If they connect back, it's a match - and only then can either of you send a message. No cold DMs. No inbox full of strangers.

MEET PEOPLE NEARBY
Locus is built to meet new people in the place you are actually in. Nearby chat, local chat, chat with strangers who are in the same room, queue or carriage as you. Everyone you see is within Bluetooth range right now - not a profile from three cities away.

ANONYMOUS BY DEFAULT
Start with a name you invent and an emoji. Nobody sees your number or your email. Sign in with Google or your phone number only if you want a Verified badge - it stays optional, and that badge is all it is used for.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- Chats are end-to-end encrypted. Keys never leave your phone.
- Nobody sees who liked whom. Only mutual connections are ever revealed.
- Nobody is shown your location - proximity is simply Bluetooth radio range.
- Block or report anyone, instantly.
- Wipe every trace of yourself from the app in a single tap.

ONE ROOM FOR EVERYONE IN RANGE
Alongside private chat there's Room: a single shared channel for every Locus user around you, with a room code you can share. Ask the crowd a question, find your group, or just see who is actually here. Think of it as a local group chat that runs on Bluetooth instead of the internet.

MADE FOR MEETING PEOPLE
- Conferences, meetups and hackathons
- Festivals, gigs, clubs and stadiums
- Campuses, hostels and student halls
- Cafes, co-working spaces and bars
- Trains, flights and long commutes
- Queues, lobbies and anywhere you are stuck with interesting strangers

WHY OFFLINE MATTERS
Venues jam. Stadiums drop. Basements and hostels have no bars. Festivals kill data. Flights and metros cut you off entirely. An offline messaging app that talks phone to phone over a Bluetooth mesh does not care about any of that - it only cares who is physically near you, so the app works exactly when every other social app stops.

Offline chat without internet is also useful when you simply do not want to be online: no data spent, no network to log you, no wifi to hunt for.

WHAT YOU NEED
Bluetooth needs to be on. That is the whole setup. No internet connection, no wifi, no mobile data, no SIM card and no account are required to send your first message.

Locus is for adults (18+).

Recent changes:
Bug fixes and security enhancement