Five Features. One Seamless Journey
VanLife Connect app features work together to help Australian travellers connect, earn, and belong on the road.
1. Services Marketplace
Find Trusted Help. Earn On The Go.
Connect with skilled travellers offering services right where you’re parked. From mechanics to dog minders, get help from the community or turn your skills into income while travelling.
- Community-reviewed providers
- In-app payments powered by Stripe
- Location-based service discovery
- Browse and book services for free.
- Providers pay a 10% commission on completed bookings.
2. Community Noticeboard
Stay Connected. Stay Informed.
Your centralised hub for local events, meetups, alerts, and assistance. Everything organised by location in one feed—no more scrolling through dozens of Facebook groups.
- Location-based updates
- Real-time travel alerts
- Local events & meetups
- Free to post and connect
3. Travel Mates
Your Journey is Better Shared.
Form travel groups, find companions, and turn chance camp meetings into lasting connections. See who’s nearby and stay connected across the journey.
- Map-based discovery
- Privacy controls
- Plan meetups & convoys
- Completely free to use
4. Smart Arrival
Arrive. Discover. Connect. Automatically.
Our intelligent technology detects your arrival and instantly surfaces nearby services, community posts, and travel mates. No searching. No manual check-ins.
- Automatic location detection
- Relevant local content
- Seamless integration
- Works in the background
5. Trust & Safety
Built With Your Safety in Mind.
VanLife Connect is designed to help travellers connect with confidence while on the road.
Profiles, community reviews, in-app payments and reporting tools help create transparency and accountability across the platform.
- User profiles with optional verification
- Community ratings and reviews
- In-app payments with clear payout rules
- Simple tools to report or block users
Learn how reporting, blocking and reviews help keep the community respectful.
Designed to Work Together
Smart Arrival acts as the intelligent engine behind the platform, ensuring you get the right information at the exact moment you need it.
Join Vanlife Connect – a community of travellers helping travellers
The mobile app that connects travellers the moment you arrive
- Smart Arrival™ shows nearby services, community posts and travel mates the moment you arrive
- Australia-wide coverage from Broome to Tassie, wherever nomads roam
- Free to join only pay when a service booking is successful
Australia’s premier lifestyle app purpose-built for travellers, grey nomads, couples, families, solo travellers and digital wanderers. The only platform combining essential services, authentic community and trusted connections, all powered by the Smart Arrival intelligent location technology.
VanLife Connect is launching soon
We’re currently in development. Join the waitlist to be notified when the app is ready.
Public launch planned for May