Glow

Glow helps you find the best Christmas light displays near you.

Every December, streets fill up with houses that have gone all out — and most of them you'd only ever find by accident. Glow is a shared map of those displays, built by the people who go looking for them. Open the app, see what's near you, and go.

FIND DISPLAYS NEAR YOU

Browse a live map of Christmas light displays, or switch to a list sorted nearest-first. Every display shows photos, its street and town, what to expect, and a star rating from people who have been. Tap a pin to see the display, tap the map on a display page to jump straight back to it.

You don't need an account to look around. Open the app and start browsing.

KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE

Not every display is the same trip out. Each one is tagged with what it actually has:

• Standard Lights
• Light Projections
• Inflatables
• Animated / Moving
• Music
• Walkthrough Display
• Charity / Fundraising

Filter the map and list by any combination of these, and by minimum star rating, so you can plan an evening around highest-rated displays, or the ones with music, or pick out a special charity display.

ADD THE ONES YOU FIND

Spotted a display that isn't on the map? Add it in a few taps: drop a pin, tick what it has, and add a photo. It goes live once the photos have been checked.

You can also add your photos to a display someone else submitted — displays get better as more people photograph them. Everything you add stays yours: your displays, your photos and your ratings can be deleted by you at any time, from your profile.

RATE AND HELP KEEP IT ACCURATE

Give any display a star rating out of five. If something's changed — the lights are down, the pin is on the wrong house, a feature is missing — you can report it or suggest an edit, and it gets reviewed. Displays are seasonal and streets change, so the map only stays useful with your help!

You'll get a notification when your submission goes live, when a report you filed is actioned, and when someone rates a display you added.

SAFE AND MODERATED

Photos and written reports are screened before they appear. Photos of children are not allowed, and you're asked to confirm you have permission to share what you upload. Anything reported gets looked at.

NO ADS, NO TRACKING, FREE

Glow is free, with no ads and nothing to buy. There is no advertising ID, no analytics SDK and no cross-app tracking in the app — we don't build a profile of you and we don't sell anything about you.

Your location is only used while the app is open — to centre the map, sort by distance and start the pin when you add a display. Nothing runs in the background. Sign-in is passwordless: you can use Google, Facebook, or a one-time link sent to your email, so there's no password to remember or leak. Your name, email and individual ratings are never shown publicly, and submissions aren't publicly attributed to you.

You can delete your account and everything attached to it from inside the app, any time, without asking us.

A NOTE ON BEING A GOOD VISITOR

Please park considerately, keep the noise down, don't block driveways, and stay off private property. If a display is raising money for charity, please give if you can.