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Localis

The Localis app

Understand local culture right where you stand

The website is where you read and understand. The app is where you continue: look things up on the spot, save the stories you have read and plan your journey.

  • Download on the App Store
  • Get it on Google Play

Free on iOS and Android.

  • Localis welcome screen with rice terraces and a Get started button
  • Explore Vietnam screen: nearby events, a map of what's around and categories
  • Ask Localis screen with suggested questions and past conversations

Features

What you can do in the app

Each feature takes you from curiosity to understanding, while you are on the trip.

  • Nearby

    Places with stories around you, with short cultural notes.

  • Ask Localis

    Ask about a dish, a custom or a place and get answers grounded in local knowledge.

  • Dish scan

    Take a photo of a dish to learn its name, ingredients and the story behind it.

  • Interpreter

    Help talking with local people when you don’t share a language.

  • Build my trip

    Arrange the places you want to visit into a sensible itinerary.

  • Collections

    Save stories and places to read again or take on your trip.

  • Safety

    Useful information when you need help during your trip.

Website and app

From story to journey

Every story on the website can continue in the app: the places it mentions, a map, and related stories nearby.

  1. 01

    Read on the website

    Get to know a place through stories, series and destination profiles.

  2. 02

    Continue in the app

    The places a story mentions, a map, and related stories nearby.

  3. 03

    Go and experience it

    Ask Localis, translate and look things up on the spot once you are there.

Inside the app

Localis Trip

Multi-day journeys designed by people who know the place. Start from a sample journey, adjust it to your pace, then talk directly with its designer before you decide.

  1. 1Start from a sample journey
  2. 2Adjust it to your interests and pace
  3. 3Talk with the journey designer before you decide

Take Localis on your next trip

Free on iOS and Android.

Scan a QR code with your phone camera to get the app.

  • QR code: Localis on the App StoreDownload on the App Store
  • QR code: Localis on Google PlayGet it on Google Play
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