Will U Be There: See Friends

Will U Be There tells you when a friend's trip overlaps with yours, same city, same dates, and shows the concerts, exhibitions and festivals near where you're staying. No live location sharing. It is free, with no ads and nothing to buy.

Travel overlap is the whole idea. You add the trips you already have booked, each one a city and two dates. Your friends add theirs. When two trips land in the same city on dates that touch, both of you get a push, so you find out when friends are in the same city while there is still time to meet, without sharing your live location. You hear about it before you fly home, instead of from a photo three weeks later. The app never gets your GPS position, only the city and the dates you typed in. Every trip also brings up events in the city you're visiting, inside your dates, to star or to RSVP as Going or Maybe. Friends who are not on the app yet can join a group by link, no friend requests needed.

Then there is the question of what to do once you're there. For every trip, the app pulls in the concerts, exhibitions, festivals and markets happening within 15 km of where you're staying, inside your dates, from tourist boards, city open-data portals, opera houses and ticketing platforms. More than 360 sources in 57 countries, over 200,000 events on the list right now, all picked by hand, so some cities are denser than others. Star what you like and it stays with the trip.

You can host too. Make an event at a real address, send it to all your friends or to the groups you pick, and the answers come back as Going or Maybe, with names. Everyone going gets a reminder on the day and can open the venue in their maps app.

Groups skip the friend requests. Make one for the ski week or the conference, drop the link in the chat, and anyone who joins and adds a trip shows up in your matches when the city and dates line up. Up to 200 people per group. Per trip, you choose which groups it may match against.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Set your home city and add a trip: a city and two dates.
2. Add friends by username or with your share link. Or start a group.
3. Get a push when someone's trip lands within 100 km of yours and the dates touch.
4. Browse what's on in that city and star the events you want.

WHAT A FRIEND CAN SEE
Only the overlap. When two trips match, a friend sees that city and those dates. The rest of your trip list stays private, and nobody ever sees your full itinerary.

Near misses count too. Miss a friend by a week and the app flags it, so you can shift a day if you want to.

It knows who lives there as well. A friend based in Lisbon shows up when you're going to Lisbon, and only if they will be home rather than off traveling themselves.

Sign in with Apple, Google, or a six-digit code by email. No password to leak. No ads and no ad SDK, and you can delete your account from inside the app.

Free, in 17 languages. Put in one trip and see what comes back.

Will U Be There, also written WillUBeThere, WillYouBeThere or Will You Be There, lives at willubethere.app.