NomadList Alternative: NomadPoint vs Nomads.com Compared

Updated 18 October 2026 with what Nomads.com currently lists on its site.

Nomad List has been running since 2014 and is one of the best-known sites for choosing where to live as a remote worker. It is a research and community site. NomadPoint is a planner. This post covers what each does, what each costs, and when to use which.

What changed with NomadList

In 2024, on its tenth anniversary, Nomad List renamed itself Nomads.com (Nomads.com FAQ). The page title still reads "formerly Nomad List". The site is by Pieter Levels (@levelsio) and says it has a member base of more than 50,000 people.

You can sign up for free and get limited access to city pages, cost of living data and rankings for more than 1,500 cities. Full access is a paid membership, billed once, with a 7-day money-back guarantee (nomads.com/join). The current price is on that page.

What NomadList is

Nomads.com is a city research tool with a members' community attached. For each city it collects data such as cost of living, internet speed, safety and weather, and it ranks cities against each other.

Its join page lists these among the paid member features:

• unlimited members-only city access, covering 195+ countries
• the members' community, meetups and paid Telegram chat
• dating and friend matching
• travel tracking, where you record where you have been
• visa and residence-permit guidance from other members
• residence calendar alerts
• filters for choosing destinations, a Climate Finder and other tools

For the question "where should I go next?", it has years of data behind it.

What NomadPoint is

NomadPoint is a free travel planner for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and it also works in a browser. It is built for the part after you have chosen the city.

Say you have decided on Medellín. You still need to:

• fit the stay between the flights before and after it
• know when your current entry allowance in Colombia runs out
• see whether a flight is delayed or a gate has changed
• share the plan with whoever is travelling with you

NomadPoint covers those: stays and flights in one day-by-day itinerary, bookings imported from email or your calendar, and sharing with co-travellers. It shows entry rules for the passport you hold and counts days per country. Schengen is counted as 90 days in any 180 across the whole area, not per country. All of that is free. Flight delay and gate alerts are in the optional Pro subscription.

Side by side

Who should use what

Use Nomads.com when you are comparing cities on cost, internet and weather before your next move. That is what it was built for.

Use NomadPoint once you know roughly where you are going and need to plan the stays and flights and keep count of your visa days.

Plenty of people will use both: Nomads.com to choose the city, NomadPoint to plan getting there and staying within the rules.

The free tier question

Nomads.com now has a free account, but city data beyond the limited free access and the community require paid membership.

NomadPoint's itinerary and visa day counting are free. Pro is an optional upgrade for flight alerts and visa expiry alerts. Whether you are allowed to stay somewhere is basic information, and in NomadPoint you do not pay to find out.

What NomadPoint adds

Nomads.com tells you a lot about a city. NomadPoint keeps the plan for getting to that city and back, and checks it against the passport you hold: how many days you have used, how many are left, and how Schengen's rolling 180-day window affects the next stay.

If you already pay for Nomads.com and use it to pick destinations, keep doing that. Add NomadPoint for the itinerary and the day counting.

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NomadPoint is free on the App Store and in the browser. No credit card required.