About this app

Zoomzet allows you to access real time news updates in areas that matter to you.



Zoomzet team are constantly working to get, filter and post all relevant local news in map form, across the country. 
Our news is delivered on a map, segmented using categories of interest, able to be filtered by time, categories, people you follow, keywords or ratings.


Zoomzet allows you to receive and customize your notifications, so you can choose to view only the news that impacts you.
 Receive notifications for all news posted within 50 km of your location and set up to 2 places you wish to be notified for news about, such as your home or workplace or the location of your family.
 Customize notifications so that you only receive alerts for news in the categories that you are interested in.


Our mission is to be the most trusted local news sharing platform, where happenings are witnessed and reported instantly, making the news and events more available, more relevant and more immediate for everyone.
 Zoomzet is unlike other news platforms, as it was built to address the current limitations, we have with sharing local news, events and what is happening.


The main values Zoomzet was built on are:

- Accessibility: Local news and events that are available to everyone, without the need to follow the right person or subscribe to the right channel.
- Newsworthiness: Information that is personal, relevant and important. The news that affects people the most, so they always know what is happening in their world.
- Authenticity: Empowering people to report the news as it happens around them, because the people who witness the news can report their first-hand account the fastest.


Download now and be the first that receive your local news.

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