The places, the unwritten rules, your program's events, and who's going tonight, all verified by the students who came before you.
Free through your study-abroad program. Sign up in your first two weeks and get Premium free for your whole first semester.
Google only helps when you already know what to search for. Lokal tells you what you didn't know to ask, before you need it.
Six things you'd otherwise learn the hard way, weeks in.
See which events and spots students from your own program are heading to right now, and go with them.
CIEE excursions, cohort meetups, and campus events in the same place as the rest of your city.
Validate your ticket or pay €60. Pfand is money. Cash only under €10. The knowledge that currently lives in group chats.
One tap shows what's genuinely open near you at this hour, on this day. Five searches become zero.
Every listing is timestamped by a real student who was just there. Not by strangers, years ago.
Budget-friendly, English-friendly, open late. Filtered by people living exactly your semester in Berlin.
“I started using it just to find open places on Sundays, but now I use it every day to find things to do with classmates.”
Maria · CIEE Berlin, from Madrid
“A context card saved me a €60 fine on day three. Instant believer.”
Jake · TU Berlin exchange, from Chicago
“My first Sunday abroad where I ate breakfast instead of walking to a closed supermarket.”
Luiza · Erasmus, from São Paulo
A map is only worth it if it's true today. So the students who use Lokal are the ones who keep it accurate, and they get rewarded for it.
Confirm it's open, add today's price, drop a quick comment. Thirty seconds while you're already there.
→Every verification and tip earns points, the way reporting traffic does in Waze. Helpful students climb fastest.
→Redeem points for a free coffee or snack at partner cafés and bakeries around Berlin.
Good for the shops, too: partners get guaranteed student footfall, and students who come for the free item usually buy more. Fresh data for us, new regulars for them.
Lokal is licensed per student per semester and lives in your welcome packet from day one. It replaces the orientation PDF, cuts repeat support questions, and gives you the first real visibility into how your cohort experiences the city.
Always aggregated and anonymised. Never individual student location. Opt-in only.
Book a program demo →B2B2C: study-abroad programs fund Lokal for their students, the same way they already fund orientation. Students on their own can subscribe directly.
CIEE, Erasmus and university international offices pay a semestral license and hand Lokal to every student in the welcome packet.
If your program partners with Lokal, it's already paid for. You just download it and go, from day one.
Abroad on your own? Subscribe directly and get the same guided, student-verified layer of the city.
Programs run great educational experiences but rarely a real bridge to the local community. That's the gap Lokal fills, and why programs pay: happier students, fewer support tickets, and anonymised insight into how their cohort actually experiences the city, to make the next program better.
Free if your program partners with Lokal. €15 a semester on your own. Join in your first two weeks and Premium is free for your whole first semester.
Become a Lokal →Tell us where you're headed and we'll set you up before you land.