If you’re stuck looking for a place to live, finding the best roommate can be a challenge. There are so many factors to consider, including personality, budget, and living preferences. And if you’re looking in an area with a competitive housing market, it can feel like an uphill battle just trying to find someone to take over your lease.
Luckily, technology has come a long way in making the roommate-search process much easier. There are tons of handy apps out there that can help you streamline your search and make it easier to find the perfect match. Here are some of the best apps for finding roommates.
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Best Apps For Finding Roommates
- Band of the Day
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Like a word-a-day calendar, except with new artists! Band of the Day might be the most direct way of finding new bands to know and love—just pop open the app, check out the curators’ pick for today, and start grooving to a sample. They’ve even lined up biographic information and photos to pour over while you listen. There’s no choosing your preferred genre here because this one’s all about discovering music that may have otherwise passed you by. The good news is that if you missed one, days gone by are still available, replete with all the extra information your art-starved mind might crave.
Platform: Android, iOS
Price: Free - Songza
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Sometimes finding your next favorite band isn’t all about genres or “sounds like” recommendations. Sometimes you just need to find the right track for the occasion. Songza solves this problem by presenting you with curated playlists formulated to fit any sort of mood, situation, or desire. You can sort through them by weirdly specific activities like “singing in the shower” or “looking at pictures of your ex”—and in the process, you may just stumble upon the next big thing.
Platform: Android, iOS
Price: Free - Bandsintown
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Discovering new bands before the age of the internet often came down to attending live shows and seeing opening acts. So if you’re craving the personality and unique sounds only live performances can deliver, look no further than Bandsintown for the hookups. This app will help you boot the footwork involved in tracking your favorite musicians’ tours and even find others you might like to see live. Bandsintown sorts through your existing music streaming accounts, preferences, and shared lists, alerting you any time you have the opportunity to check out the gig of someone you dig. Alternatively, you can glance at the entire list of folks playing in your area and pick one at random for a taste of some old school music discovery.
Platform: Android, iOS
Price: Free - Sonarflow
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Sonarflow lets you paint a star map with your music library. Constellations are composed of, at the broadest level, genres or moods, each allowing further exploration with a pinch-zoom. Find individual tracks to play or, at any point, tap a circle to bring up some similar selections. Sonarflow acts as both an interesting new interface for browsing your existing music, as well as a simple suggestion engine that can point you to artists you’ve been missing out on. It’s interesting to see where your musical tastes congregate with dynamically sized category stars too.
Platform: Android, iOS
Price: Free - Last.fm
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A relative senior amongst the group, younger only than the likes of Pandora. Last.fm builds a profile of your musical tastes based on virtually and track to grace your audio jack. A process of “scrobbling” pulls data from other apps and players, assembling an amalgamation of the data from individual services for your listening pleasure. Carry on with your regular internet radio activities from there. Last.fm’s discovery utility will function much like the aforementioned giants: tracks the old and the new, all aimed at you—will be presented in a constant procession.
Platform: Android, iOS
Price: Free
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- Roomi
Download from the App Store
Download from Google Play
Roomi uses an algorithm to match you up with a roommate that would best be suited for you. You answer questions about yourself, what you’re looking for in an ideal roommate and Roomi then works its magic to pair two matches together.
Roomi has users do quick background checks and gives the option to link social media accounts so both roommates can feel more confident and secure in the process. Once you’re ready to message a potential “roomi,” you can do so through the app so you don’t have to exchange any personal contact information until you’re ready.
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- Roomster
Download from the App Store
Download from Google Play
Roomster has listings in more than 192 countries and 18 languages. It connects potential roommates using personality traits, keyword searches and interests to help you find your ideal match.
Members can match based on testimonials from friends, hobbies, interests and questions answered through their profiles. Roomster allows users to link their social accounts, so this app tends to have more data to find the perfect match. Once you find a potential roommate that looks promising, you can connect with them through the Roomster mailbox.
- RoomEasy
Download from the App Store
Download from Google Play
RoomEasy is kind of like the Tinder of roommate apps. With RoomEasy, you create a profile, add personal description tags from their system and browse roommate and apartment listings. You can also connect your Facebook profile and see if your potential new roommate and you have any mutual friends.
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Once you find something that interests you, you’ll “like” your favorite places or potential roommates’ profiles, and if they “like” yours, you’ll be matched. Once you’re matched, you can connect through the chat app.
- SpareRoom
Download from the App Store
Download from Google Play
SpareRoom claims it is the busiest roommate app, with a roommate match being found every three minutes on its platform. What really sets SpareRoom apart from some other roommate apps is that it has a team of real people that screen each and every ad on SpareRoom so you can ensure listings are safe and verified.
This app even hosts speed room-mating events where you can meet up with people in your community and go through a roommate speed date-like process to see if you find someone you mix well with.
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- BunkUp
Not available in the App Store
Download from Google Play
BunkUp is a pretty cool app that will help you find a roommate and an apartment. With BunkUp, much like the other apps, you fill out details about yourself and what you’re looking for in a roommate and are you’re matched or “BunkedUp.”
You can look for someone to move into your open space, move into a vacant room someone else is offering or find a new roommate to look for an entirely new apartment with. BunkUp even has agents that will help you find a new apartment.
- Circle
Not available in the App Store
Download from Google Play
Circle allows you to create a profile as either someone looking for a roommate to move into your place or as someone searching for a new place to live. It shows your potential roommates based on your profile and specifications.
It even “verifies” users, which means that a user has an authenticated driver’s license connected to their profile and they’ve passed a background check. Circle always shows you the “verified” potential roommates before all others, so you know that those who show up higher on your list are real people that aren’t trying to pull a scam. You’ll also be able to chat with potential roommates and ask questions to see who you get along with best to create a positive living environment.
- Cirtru
Website only
Cirtru has truly adapted to the digital age. It allows users to take virtual tours within the platform so you can check it out safely from wherever you are. This makes it easy to both find a roommate to fill a vacancy in your home or look for an empty room to move into.
Cirtru is especially useful for animal lovers and owners as it allows you to set your preferences based on many criteria, including pet-friendly rentals and pet-welcoming roommates.
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- RoomieMatch
Website only
RoomieMatch is all about safety. It uses human “Scam Busters” to review submissions and listings, including an IP address location check to share the actual city in which people are, so you won’t deal with many scammers. Plus, your personal info is stored offline, instead of inline, so it can’t be accessed by online hackers and spammers
As a user, you can set your RoomieMatches based on gender, sexual orientation, lifestyle choices (like smoking/non-smoking), age and pet-friendliness.
- Diggz
Website only
Diggz matches you with roommates based on a variety of factors connected with your profile, like your lifestyle, personality and personal preferences. You’ll be able to “like” other profiles that you’d be interested in rooming with. It’s similar to dating apps where you only talk to people that you “like” and who “like” you back.
Diggz works for almost any situation, whether you’re looking for a new roommate to move in with you, you want to move in with someone else or you want to search for a new place with a new roommate.
- Roomaters
Download from the App Store
Download from Google Play
Roomaters uses more than the preferences you set for finding a roommate. Users take a personality test that helps when matching them with potential roommates.
Plus, you’ll get to input your interests, hobbies and a bit about what kind of roommate you are (social, introverted, messy, neat freak, etc.). So whether you like music, art, rock climbing or superhero movies, you can find someone you’ll enjoy living with.
Don’t go in blind
With so many roommate finder apps out there, it’s easier than ever to locate a perfect roommate — or at least a good one. Gone are the days of blindly showing up at someone’s place or finding a creepy classified ad in the paper. If you’re looking for the ideal roommate, give one of the above apps or sites a try.
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