Talk to Berlin. No sign-up, no feed.
030.berlin is your city's open voice channel: open the page, press the button, talk. Whoever is on the channel hears you live. Like a walkie-talkie for all of Berlin, right in your browser. No account, no download, no profile. Just one thing is required: you are in Berlin, because 030.berlin only connects people who are really here.
On air in under a minute
No email, no password, no form. On your first visit you automatically get a pseudonym like “Currywurst36”. Keep it, change it or roll a new one, as you like. Then: confirm your location, hold the button, talk. That was the entire setup. 030.berlin runs on any phone and any computer with a browser, there is nothing to install.
Your district has its own channel
Twelve district channels from Mitte to Marzahn-Hellersdorf, plus channel 9 for the whole city. When you start, you land on your own district's channel automatically: after all, you're already there. And whoever joins the conversation really is here. A quick Berlin check makes sure everyone on the channel is in the city right now. Your location is only checked and immediately discarded.
Spoken, heard, gone
There is no archive, no history and no replay. What you say exists in the moment you say it. Then the channel is clear again. 030.berlin keeps none of it – no post that comes back to haunt you years later.
Let's stay honest, though: the channel is open. Everyone on it hears you, and technically any listener could record. That is exactly what the pseudonym is for.
No feed, no algorithm, no ads
Nobody collects followers, nothing gets liked, no algorithm decides what you hear. 030.berlin is free, ad-free and has no premium tier. It doesn't want to sell you anything or keep you hooked. It's a tool: you talk to your city, done.
Take Berlin with you
030.berlin is a web app: use “Add to Home Screen” to install it without an app store. It keeps listening in the background, with controls right on your lock screen, and uses less data than music streaming. Just want to listen for a start? That's fine, nobody has to talk. And every channel can be shared as a link: whoever opens it lands right in your channel. All of it comes in German and English, in light and dark.
When does it come in handy?
Whenever you want to talk to people around you without joining a platform first: asking which entrance is quicker before the concert. Announcing where the good coffee is at the flea market. Hearing what's going on two corners away at the street festival. Or simply tuning in to your district channel at night to see who's still awake. No group link, no "add me real quick" – the channel is already there.
An open channel needs ground rules
So the channel belongs to everyone: 60 seconds of talking time at most, then the line is clear again. Troublemakers can be reported with a single button and may be temporarily banned. The few rules there are live on the ground rules page.
And why does it look like a radio?
Because a radio is exactly the right tool: one button, one channel, real voices. The displays are not decoration: the S-meter shows the actual audio level, the segment display shows the channel number. You don't need to know anything about it: press, talk, release. The device does the rest.
Channel 9 is waiting.