Showaround - Find a Local

IT Benefits

About this app

Find a local made city tour
Where’s your next trip or vacation? With the Showaround app, you can hire a local for a private tour whilst on-the-go and take traveling to a completely different level. Discover the city together with a local to explore the region form an insider’s perspective together with a travel buddy.

Find the perfect travel buddy
Choose the perfect local travel buddy to explore a new place with, based on their personality, hobbies, or experience. With Showaround you can meet locals from all around the world.

Arrange activities for your city trip or vacation
Create your own personalised tour, plan vacation activities in advance, and pay for it, all in one place. With Showaround local travel pal you don’t travel like a tourist but a native. Skip the tourist traps and better spend time doing sight-seeing and visiting places that truly interest you.

Do a personalized city tour like a local
Whether it’s an art gallery opening, sipping Champagne on a terrace somewhere, or just walking along the streets of an old town, Showaround locals will have you covered. Start travelling like a local and get to know all the secret places and hidden stories of your vacation place.

Sign up as a local to show your home town
Become a Showaround local, give city tours and make some extra money. As a local travel buddy you can meet students, backpackers, professionals and other travelers from every corner of the world. Show them your home town and benefit from flexible hours – you can show people around as much as you like, whenever you like.


As a tourist, you can:
• Automatically see the locals in the selected area;
• Filter locals according to your search criteria: price, languages, activities and more;
• When traveling, you can simply create a Trip for your next destination and receive offers from locals with traveling suggestions for your visit.

As a local, you can:
• Add photos to your travel profile;
• Specify the languages you can speak;
• Write a bit about yourself;
• Tell more about what kind of guided tours you’re offering, including activities such as nightlife, culture, food, etc.;
• Provide tours free of charge or choose an hourly rate for your tour;
• See how many tourists are looking for a local buddy in your hometown;
• Send offers to visitors.

Ratings and reviews

Very good app with great potential. It needs some improvements though. Formost, allow travelers to change dates and hosts to re-confirm. Right now you have to cancel your trip outright to make a change. So what ends up happening is you get your host's number and use WhatsApp to communicate, or their email. There are a lot of little things like this that need some work. Get to it Devs! Because otherwise the idea is great.

Great idea ... I am glad to find an app like this. As a solo traveller It offers me the opportunity to meet locals and have an adapted tour and experience. The app has a lot of potential. It would be nice to be able to edit trips, and also, Showarounds that didn't happen should now show as reviewed. Lastly, reviews should be editable.

It's disappointing that there is a pay wall. Even worse is that it's so expensive and a monthly charge. For an app aiming to link travellers and locals together is going about it the wrong way. There should be a trial or a limited service then a small yearly or one off fee. I won't be getting out my credit card out for this!

What's new

Bug fixes and stability improvements