Closed Beta — Founding Phase
Aiming to close late 2026 · After that: monthly membership only · No lifetime access  ·  No Founder badge  ·  No numbered membership  ·  No founding pricing
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Travellers & Nomads

Your home is on the move.
Your community travels with you.

Plan the journey, find the daily necessities, discover ethical food and intentional communities, and meet up with other travelling households along the way. ETC is your operating system for the road — a shareable itinerary, a map of what matters, and a real community of vouched men and women. Offline-first, privacy-controlled, owned by the people in it — not an advertiser.

UK+EU
Covered for travellers from day one
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Of your location shared without your say-so
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Member-owned. No data sold. Ever.
Trip · Cornwall → Highlands
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Bodmin Moor aire
Mon–Wed · free overnight · water on site
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Teign Valley farm shop
Thu · organic veg · eggs · trade welcome
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Severn travellers' meet
Sat–Sun · 4 households · home-ed swap
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Glen Coe safe spot
Mon · vouched · exact location unlocked
Shared with Westcountry Travellers · approximate location
Life on the road, without the scramble

The road is freedom.
The logistics are not.

Travelling households juggle a dozen apps, scattered forums, and word of mouth just to find water, a safe overnight spot, and each other. ETC pulls it into one place — and keeps it yours.

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Your journey lives across a dozen apps

What's happening right nowThe route is on one map app, stopovers on a forum, farm shops on Facebook, the meet-up in a WhatsApp thread. Nothing talks to anything else, and no one travelling with you can see the plan.
On ETCOne Trip holds the whole journey — ordered, dated stops, a route line, and the households travelling with you as collaborators. Plan it once, together, and carry it with you.
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Finding the daily necessities is guesswork

What's happening right nowWater, waste disposal, a farm shop, a campsite, somewhere safe to stop for the night — each one a separate hunt through stale reviews, paywalled directories, and luck.
On ETCFilterable map layers show storage, farms and farm shops, intentional communities, traveller hubs, campsites and aires, and community-vetted safe spots — contributed by members, enriched with open data, and pinned to your route.
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Sharing where you are means everyone or no one

What's happening right nowPublic check-ins broadcast your exact position to strangers. Go dark instead and you miss the meet-up two fields over. There is no in-between, and no way to trust who sees what.
On ETCYou choose the audience and the precision for every share — exact, approximate (town or region), or hidden. Exact location unlocks only for households you trust or have vouched, and your share expires when the trip does.
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Off-grid is exactly where the apps stop working

What's happening right nowYou head somewhere remote — which is the whole point — and the signal drops. Your map is blank, your itinerary won't load, and the directions you needed are stuck in the cloud.
On ETCYour itinerary and the places you saved are cached on your device. Open the Trip, read the next stop, and check the saved POI with no signal at all. ETC is offline-first by design.
How travelling households use ETC

From planning the route.
To arriving safely.

One membership. The whole journey — planned, shared, and carried offline, with a real community alongside you.

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Join through a personal introduction

A man or woman who knows you and is already on ETC invites you in. You join as a known man or woman — not an anonymous account. That is what makes it safe to share where you are with the people you meet on the road.

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Create your Trip

Name your journey, add stops in order with the dates you expect to be there, and draw the route that connects them. Invite the households travelling with you to co-edit it. Add your offspring to your membership free — all under your guardianship.

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Turn on the map layers you need

Switch on the layers that matter for this leg — storage, farms and farm shops, intentional communities, traveller hubs, campsites and aires, and community-vetted safe spots. Filter to what is near your route.

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Save what matters — and take it offline

Favourite the places you want to return to, build a wishlist for the route ahead, and mark what you have visited. Your itinerary and saved places cache to your device so they work with no signal.

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Share your dated itinerary — on your terms

Share the trip with a chosen group or household. For each share you pick the precision — exact, approximate, or hidden. Exact location unlocks only for households you trust or have vouched, and the share expires when the trip ends.

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Meet up, check in, stay safe

Other households see your dated stops and join you along the way. Send an "arrived safely" check-in to family and community at each stop — and if something goes wrong, one press of the emergency beacon brings vouched members near you to your aid.

A real travelling household

The Wards.
Cornwall to the Highlands, two offspring, one van.

Sam and Beth Ward home educate two offspring from a van, moving between communities across the UK and into Europe through the summer. Their route used to live in a notebook, three map apps, and a tangle of Facebook groups — and the families they hoped to meet never quite knew where they would be.

On ETC they build each leg as a Trip — dated stops, a route line, the water points and farm shops they rely on, and the safe overnight spots other travellers have vouched for. It all caches to the van's tablet, so it works in a field with no signal.

They share the trip with their travelling circle at approximate precision, and unlock their exact pitch only for the two households they have vouched. A foraging spot here, a week's work-for-stay there, skills traded in Unity Pounds — and an "arrived safely" check-in to Beth's mum at every stop.

We wanted to be findable by our people and invisible to everyone else. Every other app made that an all-or-nothing choice. This one finally lets us decide.
What changed
The whole journey in one shareable, dated itinerary
Water, farms, aires and safe spots pinned to the route
Itinerary and saved places work fully offline
Exact location shared only with vouched households
Skills and work-for-stay traded with zero platform fees
Modules used
Trip ItineraryMaps & POISecure MessagingEventsLETS EconomyEmergency Beacon
What you get

Every tool you need.
In one place.

Member features are included in both tiers. Builder features are highlighted — they come with the Founding Builder tier. Features roll out through closed beta as members request and vote for them.

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Trip Itinerary

Build a named journey with ordered, dated stops and a connecting route line. Co-edit it with the households travelling alongside you. Favourite, wishlist, and mark places as visited.

All members
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POI Map Layers

Filterable layers for storage, organic farms and farm shops, intentional communities, traveller hubs, campsites and aires, and safe overnight spots — from community pins, open data, and member listings.

All members
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Privacy-Controlled Location Sharing

Share your itinerary with a chosen audience at a chosen precision — exact, approximate, or hidden. Exact location is gated by trust and vouching, and your share expires when the trip ends.

All members
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Offline-First

Your itinerary and saved points of interest cache to your device, so the next stop and the places you need are there even with no signal. Built for the remote places travelling takes you.

All members
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Emergency Beacon

One press alerts vouched members near you and your chosen guardians. For a household far from home, your travelling community becomes the help that is closest to hand.

All members

Arrived-Safely Check-Ins

Let family and community know you reached each stop without broadcasting it to the world. A quiet, private signal to the people who worry — at the precision you choose.

All members
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Skills, Trade & Work-for-Stay

Trade skills and produce, exchange LETS credits, and find work-for-stay along your route. Sell to people who know you in Unity Pounds at 0% platform fees.

Trade free · Run a shop from Builder
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Local Hosts & Region Curation

Offer a vouched safe spot, water, or a driveway for the night, and curate the pins for a region or route your community travels. A living local map, owned by the people who use it.

Builder tier
Founding member access

Lock in lifetime access.
Support the build.

The founding window is currently set to close in late 2026. After that, new members pay from £4/month. Founding membership locks in access for life.

For travelling households & nomads
Founding Contributor
£99one-off
Plan the journey. Find your people. Travel safely.
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    Trip itinerary with dated stopsOrdered stops, route line, collaborators
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    All POI map layersStorage, farms, campsites, hubs, safe spots
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    Privacy-controlled location sharingExact / approximate / hidden, trust-gated
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    Offline itinerary & saved placesWorks with no signal, off-grid
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    Emergency beacon & check-insOne press, your community responds
Join as Founding Contributor →

+ from £4/month after launch · 14-day cooling-off

For travelling-community builders & hosts
Founding Builder
£299one-off
Build the travelling network your community needs.
  • Everything in Founding ContributorAll traveller features included
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    Curate the map for a region or routeAdd and verify the pins your community uses
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    Offer vouched safe spots & work-for-stayHost travellers on your terms, trust-gated
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    Run a shop & sell courses in Unity Pounds0% platform fees on everything you sell
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    Network analyticsSee who travels where and where the gaps are
Join as Founding Builder →

+ from £4/month after launch · 14-day cooling-off

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Refer a friend, earn £4 cash. Every man or woman you personally vouch for gets their first month free. When they subscribe from month 2, you receive a £4 cash payment. The community grows through trust — and you are rewarded for it.
You are joining a community — not just downloading an app

ETC is a Private Members Association — a community of real, vouched men and women organising together. The platform is the tool we use to do that. Your founding membership funds both: the community and the software that serves it. No outside investors. No advertisers. No data sold.

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Numbered founding membershipYour place in the founding sequence — permanent, on your profile, forever.
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Permanent Founding badgeNo future member can ever earn it. Only you — for being here at the start.
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Quarterly founding member eventsInvited to our quarterly events — AGM-style gatherings where direction is set and your voice counts.
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Every future feature includedEverything built through to full member governance in 2028 — included. No extra charges, ever.
Join the waitlist

Wherever the road goes.
Your community goes with you.

No commitment yet — just tell us you are interested. We will reach out when beta access opens for your area and your route.

You are on the list ✓

We will be in touch when ETC opens in your area.
If you know someone who would benefit — tell them.
Your vouch is the most valuable thing you can give them.

⚠ Use your real name. This is the name your community will know you by — once you join, your name and email are permanent identifiers and cannot be changed. False or fake names are grounds for removal from the Private Members Association.
Please do not skip this field if someone introduced you. Without a referral code: you will not benefit from the first month free offer, the man or woman who told you about ETC will not receive their £4 referral reward, and you will join at probationary trust level rather than as an introduced member. If you have lost your code, contact the man or woman who referred you or email hello@etcapp.net before submitting.
There is a lot more

The journey is one part of
everything we are building.

ETC has 23+ modules live in beta — from secure messaging and a community economy to education, governance, podcasting and video. The travelling-household tools sit on top of all of it. Most features have basic functionality now, with advanced capabilities added as members request and vote for them.

💬 Secure Messaging 💷 Community Economy 🛍️ Local Marketplace 🎓 Education & Courses 🗳️ Governance 🎙️ Podcasting 📹 Video + much more coming
See every feature — what's live, what's coming →
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You are joining a movement built to endure
Not just a platform — a Private Members Association sustained by community, built to carry its own weight, and growing through the trust of every man and woman in it.
What this means →
Your Founding Invitation

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Find your community. Help them find theirs.

🔑 Every member has three ways to invite
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💷 Earn up to £4 per founding member you bring in
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📅 The founding door is aimed to close late 2026