Village or neighbourhood
Posts from your village or neighbourhood, official messages from the municipality, village council or neighbourhood council, warnings and polls.
Residents only
The private network for your village or neighbourhood
Looking after a vital neighbourhood together, so that nobody has to face things alone. With Buurtmaat, residents share news, ask for or offer help, give things away and see what's on. Only people from the village or neighbourhood can get in. No adverts and no tracking.
Features
Everything about your village or neighbourhood in one place
Help
Ask for help or offer it. For some shopping, a small job, walking the dog or something you're good at: add it to your profile and neighbours will find you. You make arrangements by private message.
Market
Give things away, sell them for an asking price or look for something. In the sharing cupboard you borrow a ladder, trailer or tools from your neighbours: you book a period and the owner approves.
Calendar
See what's on and join in straight away. Or post a call-out: who wants to walk, cycle or do sport together? Clubs and schools also announce what they're organising.
Notifications
A push notification for news that concerns you. And a summary by email every week.
Neighbourhood buddies
No smartphone? A neighbourhood buddy posts your help request and helps look for a neighbour who can help.
Private messages
Reply to a help request with a private message and make arrangements together. Only the two of you can read it.
For everyone
Buurtmaat in ten languages
The app and the website are available in ten languages, in every package. So everyone in the village or neighbourhood can join in, including those who find Dutch difficult.
- Nederlands
- English
- Türkçe
- العربية
- Polski
- Deutsch
- Français
- Español
- 中文（简体）
- Italiano
Write in your own language
Post a message, a help request or a listing in the language you know best. With the translation package, your neighbours read it in theirs.
Translation package: automatically translated
An extra option per village or neighbourhood. Does a neighbour read another language? One tap on Translate shows the text in their own language. The original is always one tap away.
Your privacy stays safe
Only the text goes to the language model that translates it. Your name and your address are never included. Buurtmaat first replaces neighbours' names, addresses and phone numbers in the text.
Accessible
Large text, clear buttons and good contrast, in line with WCAG 2.1 AA.
Safe and private
A place just for the village or neighbourhood
Residents only
You can only get in with the code from the letter delivered to your address.
No adverts or tracking
There are no adverts, there are no like counters and we don't track you.
Moderation in three layers
An automatic check stops public posts that are clearly serious, such as a threat or a scam. What residents report is handled by moderators from their own village or neighbourhood. And AnchorWorks keeps an eye on serious cases in all villages and neighbourhoods.