The social network for reunions
Find someone you know, wherever you go.
You meet someone great while travelling, you swap a contact, and you lose them. Gullu replaces that reflex with a selfie taken together, and puts the moment on a world map so you can actually see each other again.
Free. No ads. No feed.
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You met them, then you lost touch?
A party, a hostel, a coworking space, a semester abroad. The connection is instant, the promise is genuine: "if you ever pass through my city, let me know". And yet those reunions almost never happen.
A number lost in the crowd
It joins 800 other contacts you will never scroll back to. A first name alone tells you nothing about the place, the moment, or the face.
A handle behind a wall of content
You follow them, and then they vanish under stories and videos from people you have never met.
The same city, never the same week
You are both in Lisbon at the same time, and neither of you will ever know it. Nobody tells anybody.
The problem was never a lack of intent. It was a lack of tool. So we built the one that was missing.
The idea
A map, some selfies, your friends.
Gullu comes down to three ideas. No extra features, no screen designed to distract you, just what it takes to meet again.
A living world map
Your friends appear on an interactive map. You land in Lisbon, you open Gullu, and you instantly see who is around.
Adding friends by selfie
No phone number, no handle. You take a selfie together and that memory becomes the link. The face, the place, the date, the feeling of the moment.
A notification at the right time
When a friend arrives in your city, Gullu lets you know. That is usually all it takes to turn a maybe into a meeting.
How it works
Four steps, and you see each other again.
You meet someone
A party, a dorm room, a coworking space, a night train. The kind of encounter you will still remember in ten years.
You take a selfie
Two seconds, and your friend is added. Forgot in the moment? You can still add them afterwards.
You follow each other on the map
Everyone shows up in their city, never at a precise address, and only to friends they have met in real life.
You meet again
A notification, a message, a coffee. The connection picks up exactly where you left it.
Features
Everything Gullu does.
Seven features, not one more. Tap any of them for the detail.
The heart of Gullu. One world map, all your friends on it, each in the city where they are right now. You see at a glance who is nearby, who lives across the world, and who happens to be exactly where you land next week.
The only way to add someone on Gullu, and that is deliberate. The selfie keeps the face, the place and the date of the encounter. Six months later you are not wondering who this contact is: you see the moment again.
A simple messenger built for one thing: arranging to meet. You are both in the same city, you write to each other, you meet up. No group chat spiralling out of control, no pointless notifications.
A first name, a photo, a few useful details, and that is it. No follower count, no score, nothing that turns a friendship into social performance.
The number one benefit of Gullu. When a friend arrives in your city, you get a notification. That small signal is what turns "we should catch up someday" into a coffee this afternoon.
Got a spare couch? You can let your Gullu friends know. A simple way to host people you already know, without going through a platform full of strangers.
No forced tracking. Your location is rounded to the centre of the nearest city, set automatically, manually, or turned off entirely. Only friends you have met in real life can see it.
The alternative
Everything Gullu will never do.
We built Gullu by removing things, not adding them. Here is what you will not find in the app, and none of it is an oversight.
- No feed
- No recommendation algorithm
- No disappearing stories
- No videos engineered to hold your attention
- No intrusive advertising
- No like or follower counts
- No forced tracking
- No selling of your data
We are not trying to keep you in the app for as long as possible. We are trying to get you out of it, to go and see someone.
Because likes are no substitute for looking someone in the eye.
The app
Simple from the very first screen.
A map, your friends, your memories. Nothing else to learn before you start.
The map
Your friends, city by city, all over the world.
Your friends
Every encounter, with the country where it happened.
Meeting again
One message, and you have a place to meet.
Real screenshots of the Gullu app. Names and cities come from a demo dataset.
FAQ
Still wondering…
Yes, entirely. The app is free for everyone who travels and wants to stay in touch. No subscription, nothing locked behind a payment.
By taking a selfie together, right when you meet. It is the only way, and that is the point: you keep a face and a memory instead of a phone number. If you only think of it the next day, you can still add them.
No, never. Your position is rounded to the centre of the nearest city. You choose whether it updates automatically, whether you set it yourself, or whether you turn it off completely.
Only the friends you added by selfie, which means only people you have met in real life. There are no public profiles on Gullu.
No. No feed, no algorithm, no stories. Gullu is not built to be scrolled for hours, it is built to be opened when you arrive somewhere.
No. We do not sell any data and we never turn on location without your consent. The details are in our privacy policy.
iPhone and Android. Download links to the App Store and Google Play are at the top and the bottom of this page.
Through the contact form on this site. We read everything, and we love hearing your reunion stories.
Not ready to download yet?
Leave us your email. We only write when we actually have something to say: the launch, new features, and reunion stories from the community.
Ready to see those people again?
Gullu is free, and one selfie is all it takes to start. Your next encounter might be the one you do not lose.