Bring people together
Build your community in London
Start a group on your terms in London — you choose the region, the language, and who it is for. No ads, no data selling, no paying to reach the people you connect.
London is waiting just for you
Nine million people live here, in a city wide enough that the far side of it is an hour and two trains away. And it keeps rearranging itself — people arriving from everywhere, and the ones already here moving on to a new flat, a new part of town, a new set of streets.
But no one belongs to 'London' — they belong to Deptford, or Walthamstow, or the few streets around one Tube station. Sunday football on Hackney Marshes, a badminton night at the leisure centre, twelve people reading the same book above a pub: the scenes form borough by borough, and word about them rarely travels further. You don't have to start something for nine million people — pick the boroughs you can reach on a weeknight, set a regular time, and the people fifteen minutes away have somewhere to turn up.
You build it. At your terms.
The group page your members call home — gatherings, a feed, and the tools to run it. All yours to shape.
You own it. Because you earned it.
The community you gather is yours — not a listing on someone else's marketplace.
Free forever
Run your community and reach every member of it without paying a cent. Hosting, inviting, member engagement — all free, for good. You only ever pay if you choose to grow beyond the basics.
Full control
Define exactly who your group is for — by topic, region, and language — and keep it true to its purpose. No algorithm deciding who it reaches.
Trust built in
Ask members to verify, or go fully private and hidden, invite-only. You set how safe your space needs to be.
No lock-in
Export your group's data any time. And whether your members come with you is their choice, never ours — we don't hold communities hostage.
Ready to build a place that is actually yours?
You bring the people and the energy — we'll give them a home. Free forever, no ads, no lock-in.
Start your groupOrganizer questions
- Is it free to start?
- Yes — starting and running a community on gæther is free, forever. The free tier is the real product, not a trial, and there's no fee to reach the members you gathered.
- How do you make money?
- Never from your members' data, and never with ads or tracking pixels. gæther is free to start and run a community; we'll fund it with optional paid upgrades for organizers who want more — the community itself stays free.
- Can I move my Meetup group over?
- Yes — our migration tools help you recreate your group, bring your members across, and go live. See the moving-from-Meetup guide for the step-by-step.
- How is this different from Meetup?
- No ads, no pay-to-reach, and no algorithm deciding who sees your group. You own your members and their contact details, you set how the space runs, and you can export everything and leave any time. gæther is European, privacy-first, and built for the community — not the marketplace.
- Do members have to verify or identify themselves?
- No. No one is ever required to verify or reveal who they are — members take part under the name they choose. Verification is an optional, private check that someone is a real person; you can choose to require it for your group, but it never means revealing an identity.