Findable, finally
A group people can actually find.
Create a page and you join a living map of what's on nearby. People looking for a run club, a book club, or a Stammtisch find your group, and start following along, no buried WhatsApp invite required.
Neukölln Run Club
1,240 members
Next meetup
Sunday Long Run · Sun 10:00
Members talk to each other
A group chat that's free for everyone in it.
Every community gets a general chat where members sort out carpools, swap tips, and welcome the new ones. No paywall on talking to your own group, the way it should be.
General chat
Neukölln Run Club · 1,240 members
Direct reach
Reach your crew directly. No algorithm.
Post your next meetup and every member sees it, in order, in the app. Or send a newsletter straight to their inbox. The people who joined actually get your updates.
Home
No algorithmSun, 15 Jun · 10:00
Sunday Long Run
Neukölln Run Club
Tempelhofer Feld
+128 going
Tue, 17 Jun · 19:30
Book Club: Berlin Stories
Lesekreis Neukölln
Café Rincón
Thu, 19 Jun · 19:00
Language Exchange
Sprachcafé
Klunkerkranich
Your followers see every post, in order. No feed decides who.
Your regulars
Build a following, manage your regulars.
Free RSVPs, a waitlist, and a member list that shows who's a regular and who's new. Free forever, even now that Meetup charges organisers to host their own group.
Members
1,240
Next meetup · Sunday Long Run
Meetup now charges organisers to host. Traube is free, forever.
Free, and staying free
Meetup charges to host. We don't.
Meetup now wants around €20 a month just to run your own group, and more if members want to message. Hosting on Traube is free, forever, and you can import your contacts in and export them out whenever you like.
- Organizers pay to host
- Members pay to message (Meetup+)
- No contact export
- Free to host, forever
- Members chat for free
- Import and export anytime
Already running a group on Meetup?
See how Traube comparesOrganiser tools
Everything to run a group. Nothing to milk it.
Built for volunteer organisers, not creator-economy upsells. Every feature earns its keep.
Get discovered
Your events show up in public discovery, so everyone can see them, not just friends.
Build a following
Anyone can follow your page and hear about every event you post.
Add admins
Let teammates help manage the page.
Page chat
An open discussion or an announcement-only channel.
Analytics
Insights for your page and every event.
Newsletters
Send updates straight to your followers' inboxes.
Ticketing
Charge admission and sell tickets, no middleman.
Honest comparison
What you leave behind. What you get.
What you leave behind
- –Meetup charging YOU €20/mo to host your own community
- –Mighty Networks and Circle at $50–$400/mo for a group chat
- –Instagram's algorithm deciding who sees your next meetup
- –WhatsApp groups that nobody can find or join after week one
What you get with Traube
- +€0/month. Volunteering for your community is enough
- +Tools sized for a group, not a creator-economy startup
- +A proper page your regulars can follow, not a 47-reply thread
- +A calendar of your next 10 meetups, already scheduled
Why organisers pick us
Built by people who also run groups.
We host a run club and a weekly Stammtisch. We use this ourselves.
Free forever for organisers
No card, no trial, no upsell at 100 members.
No algorithms
Every member sees every meetup, in order.
No ads. Ever.
We're not selling your members' attention.
Your data is yours
Export your member list anytime. Delete anytime.
Traube is exactly what our scene needed.
A Berlin collective
