Help People Discover More of Your Community

Create mobile experiences that help people discover more of your community.

Create tours, scavenger hunts, vendor maps, seasonal guides, and other mobile experiences that help people discover more of your community. Building on Distrx’s experience supporting more than 600 Main Streets and downtowns, the new Locable app connects discovery to the events, places, and updates already managed in Locable.

More ways to guide discovery with tours, maps, activities, and points of interest
You stay in control with flexible content, locations, and experiences
Works with one activity and gets more valuable as your community information connects

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See Community Tours in Action

See how Locable helps you create a guided mobile experience that connects people with local places, stories, and points of interest. This quick walkthrough shows how to build a Tour and make it available in your community app.

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Connect

Display events from partner calendars and connected local sources

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Add custom points of interest

Curate

Show connected information automatically

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Build tours, maps, and local guides

Extend your reach

Bring community events, places, and curated experiences to residents and visitors in the Locable app

Why it works

More Ways to Discover and Connect with Your Community

The Locable app gives residents and visitors another way to discover local events, places, and experiences. It draws on the Community Information Grid that also supports your website, helping your organization and local participants extend their reach without re-entering the same information.

Discovery Built on Connected Community Information

The app can feature events and updates shared by local businesses, libraries, museums, and other participants, alongside information your organization curates. Connected sources and submissions help keep the experience useful and current.

More Ways to Explore

Help residents and visitors find events and places, or create tours, maps, scavenger hunts, guides, and seasonal experiences that bring your community to life.

Another Place for Participants to Reach People

The mobile app extends the reach of local information beyond your website. As more participants connect, people have more ways to discover what’s happening and where to go.

A Foundation for What Comes Next

Start with mobile discovery and connected local information. Over time, the same foundation can support additional ways for businesses and organizations to participate and manage their presence.

Create Tours, Maps, and Seasonal Experiences

Help residents and visitors explore your community through self-guided tours, interactive maps, scavenger hunts, and seasonal guides. Bring local places, stories, events, and activities together in the app.

Guide people from stop to stop

Create walking, driving, historical, art, and mural tours. Add points of interest anywhere on a map, then enrich each stop with photos, audio, video, directions, stories, or instructions.

Give people a reason to explore

Create scavenger hunts, trick-or-treat guides, festival maps, holiday promotions, pub crawls, vendor guides, and other experiences that help people discover more of your community.

Refresh and reuse your experiences

Adapt an experience for a new season, campaign, or event. You can also incorporate connected information from Locable, such as directory listings and calendar events, to bring more local places and activities into the experience.

Building on Distrx

From Distrx to the Locable Mobile App

Locable acquired Distrx in 2024 after its mobile app supported more than 600 Main Streets and downtowns. The new Locable mobile app builds on that experience while connecting tours, events, places, maps, and local updates to Locable’s broader information infrastructure.

Read the original Distrx announcement →

Built for the Organizations That Coordinate Local Discovery

Use the Locable app to help residents and visitors find more of the places, events, stories, and activities that make your community worth exploring.

Main Streets & Improvement Districts

Help people discover downtown businesses, events, promotions, public art, seasonal activities, and reasons to visit more often.

Chambers of Commerce

Put member businesses, events, jobs, community updates, and local resources in one mobile experience that makes the chamber more useful between meetings and referrals.

DMOs & Tourism Organizations

Create destination guides, itineraries, attraction maps, walking tours, driving tours, and other experiences that encourage visitors to explore and stay longer.

Small Towns & Counties

Give residents and visitors an easy way to find local events, businesses, public places, community services, parks, and activities across the area you serve.

Community Banks, Utilities, & More

Support the communities you serve with a branded mobile experience that highlights local events, organizations, businesses, resources, and community involvement.

Libraries, Museums, Arts, & Cultural Organizations

Turn exhibits, collections, landmarks, stories, programs, events, and local history into useful guides, tours, maps, and experiences.

Local Media & Community Information Partners

Help people find more of what is happening locally by connecting trusted events, businesses, organizations, stories, and updates to a mobile discovery experience.

People often ask...

Can the app work with our existing website?

Yes. The app connects to your Locable account and can work alongside your existing website. You don’t have to use Locable website tools to offer mobile discovery.

What information can appear in the app?

Depending on what your community connects or shares through Locable, the app can include events, businesses, jobs, organizations, Facebook updates, reviews, points of interest, and other local information.

Can events from other organizations appear automatically?

Yes. Events from connected calendars and participating organizations can flow into the app. You can choose to display them automatically or use moderation and curation controls to decide what appears.

Can we add locations that do not have a street address?

Yes. You can place points of interest directly on a map. This works well for festival layouts, farmers market vendors, public art, parks, temporary exhibits, and other custom locations.

What kinds of experiences can we create?

Create walking and driving tours, historical tours, art walks, scavenger hunts, trick-or-treat guides, festival maps, vendor guides, seasonal activities, and other location-based experiences.

Do we need to maintain a separate app database?

No. The app connects to information in your Locable account, which can also support your website and other distribution channels. You can use Locable’s app without using its website tools.

Can people use the app without creating an account?

People can browse community information without an account. An account may be needed for features such as saving places or events, following organizations, or participating in certain interactive activities.

Is the app available for Android and iOS?

Yes. The Locable app is available on the App Store and Google Play.

What is happening to the Distrx app?

The new Locable app builds on Distrx’s experience supporting more than 600 Main Streets and downtowns. The older app is being phased out. When it goes offline, existing promotions, links, and QR codes pointing to Distrx may need to be updated to direct people to Locable.