Our mission
Bring friends closer, off the screen.
Roam exists so the people you care about end up in the same city more often, and you know in time. Fewer “who’s around in August?” threads that scroll into the void. More crossings, more legendary meetups, more birthdays remembered.
What we stand for
Your plans are yours.
Your data is never sold or shared for advertising or analytics.
We never know where you are.
No location tracking. Roam only knows where you said you would be, and you choose who sees each plan.
No password to leak.
You sign in with your phone number. That is it.
Real life over screen time.
No feed, no likes, no streaks. We count meetups, not minutes.
Designed with care.
Every screen is thought through. Roam should feel calm, clear and good to look at.
Respect, tolerance, transparency.
Towards everyone on Roam, and in how we tell you what we do and why.
Meet the greylag goose
Anser anser
Why a goose? Geese fly off every year and always find their flock again. They travel with family and friends, and they honk when something is up. That is Roam.
- 1.Its Latin name, Anser anser, means "goose goose".
- 2.Greylags mostly pair for life. Only about 5 to 8 percent of pairs split.
- 3.Families stay together the whole first winter and migrate as one.
- 4.It is the ancestor of most farmyard geese, domesticated by at least 1360 BC.
- 5.Wingspan up to 1.8 metres, weight up to 4.5 kilos.
- 6.Konrad Lorenz discovered imprinting with greylag goslings. They followed the first thing they saw, which was him.
- 7.After chasing off a threat, the gander returns to his partner with a "triumph call".
- 8. In 390 BC, the sacred geese on Rome's Capitol honked when the Gauls climbed up at night, and woke the guards. Geese saved Rome. We just spell it differently.
- 9.On the ground a group of geese is a gaggle. In the air, a skein.
- 10.They cruise at 50 to 80 km/h. With a good tailwind, they pass 100. No speed limit up there.