Find
Sort by quiet, accessibility, distance, or drive time.
Explore places with clear difficulty labels, weather context, natural sounds, access details, cost, and source confidence.
The mobile app
Private betaChoose the kind of outside you need.
Alcove combines quieter-place discovery, practical access, guided outdoor reflection, darker-sky planning, and trusted friends in one lower-pressure experience.
Coming soon to theApp StorePlanned forGoogle Play
What Alcove is for
A smaller, better set of choices.
Alcove is not trying to replace technical navigation or official land-manager information. It helps narrow a question that general maps often leave unanswered: where could I go that fits my time, access needs, conditions, and desired experience?
Notice
Take a guided pause outdoors.
Relax sessions are short, place-aware prompts that support attention to the setting around you. Sound sampling is optional and raw audio is not uploaded.
Share
Plan with people you trust.
Friends can share lists, recommendations, favorites, activity, and ratings. Contact matching is optional and session-only.
Readable signals
Three place metrics, explained instead of hidden.
Every metric is designed to be opened for a plain-language explanation of what it represents and what the displayed value means.
- Sound describes the expected balance of natural and human-caused sound, with its source and confidence.
- Access summarizes available planning context such as surface, facilities, cost, and approachability.
- Trust describes the strength and recency of the sources behind the place record.
Sound
Calmer
A relative planning signal, not a live calibrated noise reading.
Access
Casual
Approachable context based on currently available place details.
Trust
Strong
Multiple useful sources with visible limitations and update context.
Privacy in context
Permissions should make sense when they appear.
- Browse without granting contacts, microphone, photo, or precise-location access.
- Contact matching runs only after you choose it and is not persisted by Alcove.
- Microphone access is limited to an opt-in Relax measurement; raw audio is never uploaded.
- Community photos, places, notes, and ratings are reviewed before affecting public information.
- Export and account-deletion controls are part of the account experience.
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