Bored?
Good.
It's addiction, and the isolation that follows.
Boredom isn't a fault to fix. It's the quiet just before you choose what to do.
Phones and apps are built to be hard to put down. The real 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.
Most of it starts with boredom. At the first hint of it we reach for a phone. But boredom was never the problem. It's the small pause right before you decide to do something — a feeling worth keeping, not escaping.
Gjesp doesn't treat that restless moment as something to kill. It treats it as a starting point.
We want you to use Gjesp less, not more.
Open it, find one real thing happening near you, and close it. No feed. No algorithm choosing what you see. Nothing built to pull you back later.
Open it
One screen, chosen for your neighbourhood — not for keeping you here.
Close it quickly
Enough to go and do something, then out of your way. That's the whole job.
Go outside
You open the app, close it, and step into the real world. That's success.
A few things, on purpose.
Everything is chosen for your neighbourhood — not for keeping you in the app.
Local events & activities
What's actually happening near you, this week — verified before it appears.
Calm places worth visiting
Quiet spots to discover. No star ratings, no reviews, no noise.
People nearby
Others close by who also want to do something real today.
New things to try
Small nudges toward something you haven't done in your area yet.
Pay a little — only for total freedom to publish.
Browsing is always free, and so is publishing up to two events a month. A small subscription lifts the limit. We charge users so we never have to sell them.
- Publish unlimited events
- Basic Statistics
- Recurring events
- Advanced Statistics
- Use your business/marketing name as organizer
- API integration
Good for your neighbourhood, light on the planet.
Back to the community
A tenth of our profits goes to the people who make local life better — organisers running events and bringing people together.
Apply by email →Renewable, and published
Gjesp runs on Nordic data centres powered by renewable energy. An app about not wasting your attention shouldn't waste resources either.
See the carbon score →That's the whole idea.
If it makes sense to you, the app is here. Open it, find one real thing, and go.