The problem is addiction and isolation.
Phones and apps are built to be hard to put down. The cost isn't only the hours — it's that we spend more of our lives alone with a screen and less of it with the people and places around us. Over time, that quietly adds up to isolation.
A lot of this starts with boredom. At the first hint of it we reach for a phone. But boredom was never the problem. It's an ordinary, even useful feeling — the small pause right before you decide to do something. We've just lost the habit of staying in it long enough for it to lead anywhere. Gjesp doesn't treat that restless moment as something to kill. It treats it as a starting point, and helps you turn it into something real nearby — without pressure, and without becoming one more thing pulling at your attention.
We want you to use Gjesp less, not more.
Gjesp is built on the opposite idea. You open it, find one real thing happening near you, and close it. There's no feed to scroll, no algorithm choosing what you see, and nothing designed to pull you back later.
The app has one job: give you enough to go and do something — then get out of your way.
It does a few things, on purpose.
Gjesp shows you local events and activities, calm places worth visiting (no star ratings, no reviews), people nearby who also want to do something, and new things to try in your area. Everything is chosen for your neighbourhood — not for keeping you in the app.
It isn't trying to be everything. It's meant to be the thing you check for a minute before you put your phone away.
You pay a little — only for total freedom to publish.
Browsing and discovering on Gjesp is always free — and so is publishing, up to two events a month on a private account. A small subscription lifts that limit and gives you total freedom to publish.
Most apps are free because they make money another way — usually by selling your attention, or predictions about your behaviour, to advertisers. That business model is exactly what produces the endless feed and the constant pull. Charging a small amount lets us avoid it completely.1
So charging you isn't a growth trick — it's how we stay independent. A company paid by its users works for its users. A company paid by advertisers works for advertisers. We'd rather you paid us directly than have us sell your data.3
| Plan | Price | What it's for |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 kr | Publish up to 2 events per month, Browse events |
| Pro | 100 kr / mo✦ 30 days free trial | Publish unlimited events, Basic Statistics |
| Business | 125 kr / mo, excl. VAT✦ 90 days free trial | Publish unlimited events, Basic Statistics, Recurring events, Advanced Statistics, Use your business/marketing name as organizer |
No plan includes ads.
Ten percent goes back to the community.
We set aside ten percent of our profits for the people who make local life better — organisers running events, building things, and bringing people together. The support can be financial, practical, or something else.4
We review applications as they come in. The rest covers running costs, which we keep low.
Built to be light on people and the planet.
Gjesp runs on Nordic data centres powered by renewable energy. An app about not wasting your attention shouldn't waste resources either.
No ads anywhere. No selling of personal data. And we publish our environmental footprint rather than just claiming it's low.