As the UK’s number 1 flatshare site, we’ve helped over 13,000,000 people to find their perfect flatmate or flatshare. With our apps, you can do it all while on-the-go.
Repeatedly featured by Apple as App Of The Day and in the categories of Your New Home, Apps for the Weekend, What’s Hot, and Popular Apps and Games. Rated by The Sunday Times as one of the top apps on the App Store.
SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE
Whether you’re starting university, relocating to the UK, tired of living alone, weighing up what to do with an empty room, or, quite simply, searching for another flatmate or flatshare, we’re the service for you.
UNRIVALLED CHOICE
With thousands of flatsharing opportunities to choose from in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and right across the UK, you’ll be able to find your perfect flatmate or flatshare.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Experience has taught us that flatsharing is as much about the people as it is about the property. To help you find the best of both, we provide unparalleled tools, choice, and support. As a result, on average, every 3 minutes someone finds a flatmate through SpareRoom.
HELP & SUPPORT
Our award-winning customer support team are here to help you with your search. If you require support, come across a problem, or want to provide feedback, you can get in touch by email (support@spareroom.co.uk) or phone (0161 768 1162).
The UK’s most popular app to help people find rooms to rent
Owsi2
I have been using this in earnest for just a few days (as a prospective tenant) and so far my experience is very positive, both of the app design, the underlying SpareRoom marketplace model, and the range and quality of the people and properties that it seems to attract. As far as their fees go, it seems a bit much to charge £4.99 to check your ID, especially as they require you to do it all again every 12 months for no clear reason, other than presumably to profit from it. On the other hand so far that’s the only fee I have encountered and it’s not a requirement to validate your identity. I would personally rather they encourage people to validate their identity by charging as little as possible (ideally making it free) and cover their margins by, for example, levying a fee on all users looking for a property who manage to find an appropriate match.
Need to improve basic features ASAP
David looking for a room
I lived in several countries, I have used several websites and apps to search for housing. I can say hands down London is one of the most challenging markets to find a good place to live in. Unfortunately, Spareroom and it’s app don’t make that more easy. Spareroom does not check the accuracy of the room posts it receives, leading to you looking for one thing it’s still seeing adverts that only available at certain days of the week they do not tell you they’re sharing with people or other basic criteria. It would be great to add simple features that are obvious elsewhere such as having a map on of the tube overlay the map where the rooms are to make the stations more visible. But also to add more criteria with for example the square metre of the room, the year of construction, whether there is a living room or not. Spareroom does not make looking for a room easier it makes it more frustrating. On top of that Spareroom dares to charge £30 a month for that level of service come out when it does not check the ad that comes in for accuracy, it only takes in the money. A perfect example of a network affect an app that because it has a monopoly does not seem to want to improve more. I would be really happy for Spareroom to contact me if they wish to know about what they could do better. That’s because there’s a lot better they could do. Apps in other countries are better design. In a challenging housing market, please get your act together and make finding a room better!
Developer Response
Hi David,Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. We're sorry to hear you've not found our service helpful.All adverts on SpareRoom are privately managed and the advertisers themselves fill in the information about the room. We do ask all the information is up to date and correct. Advertisers can outline what days the room is available and outline how many people live in the property. If the information on the advert is incorrect you can report it to us and we can investigate it. You can report it by selecting the report option or email us at site.moderator@spareroom.co.uk. We thank you for your feedback regarding the tube map overlay and a square metre option, we'll pass this on to our Feedback department. When you conduct a search you'll see two types of adverts in the listings, Free to Contact and Early Bird. You will need to be an upgraded user to contact the Early Bird adverts, if you want to use the site for free you can contact Early Bird advertisers after they've been on the site for 7 days as they too will become Free to Contact. We do need to offer a premium service in order to keep our site running and help people find homes. We make this service optional and many of our users use our free service. If you have any further questions please call on 0161 768 1162.Best wishes,The SpareRoom Team
Not trustworthy landlord
Matrix0009
I’m not really happy with the app & better off with other trustworthy app like Rightmove as some landlords don’t even reply either delivered or left on read Ive even message a landlord 5 times until I got a response saying they have someone but not sure whether they going to rent so the ad was up just case this person drop put & you try to chase them about the room also been criticised by a landlord for uploading a property to form a house share & put detail in description & had to explain that I contacted the estate agency about the property for house share, the landlord said why I’m rent if I have a property which I don’t only to form a house share as I put in description looking to share if interested this landlord doesn’t seem trustworthy as change images of the room & charge over price for smaller room than previous room was a lot bigger with ensuite.Landlord should only know do you work full time or part time, permanent or contracted, how you fund the rent whether is your family or your salary & what sector of the job you work, for estate agency would be all above, credit check, payslip but even with estate is hard for first time renter but is safer, this my first time renting & a lot of landlord discriminate young tenant especially 18 to 23, I’ve looked everyday on this app & found a lot of ads with rent I can afford but you have to be 25 or above.
Developer Response
Hi there,Thanks for contacting us and we're sorry to hear you didn't receive a reply from the advertiser you contacted.We understand it can be quite frustrating when advertisers don't respond. There can be a number of reasons why advertisers don't respond to their messages, they could have a number of messages to respond back to, found what they were looking for or are in the process of this. So please don't get too despondent if an advertiser fails to get back to you within 48hrs, we can advise sending a quick follow-up message and continuing your search for alternative adverts within your area.If you come across an advert that is taken or misleading in any way you can contact our Moderation team at site.moderator@spareroom.co.uk or call us on 0161 768 1162 and they'd be happy to investigate further. If you'd like to form a house share on SpareRoom you can post a Buddy Up advert, the only time you would post a property advert or room advert is if you own or manage that property. Best wishes,The SpareRoom Team
Concerned Prostect
Noris1222222222
Great app, I can’t complain about the app not one bit. But…I have been to a few viewings, at this point I think I’m being discriminated because of certain factor “my skin colour” After the viewing, I get feedback from the landlords that the rooms are available for me or that someone else is coming for a viewing after my viewing. Then when I ask the landlords I’ve seen for feedback, they seem to either reject me or not even respond to my messages any longer. I wonder why, I wonder if I’m the only one who looks like me is experiencing this or has experienced it? The most recent viewing I had was very successful and I was ready to move in, but after asking for a feedback, the landlord said he doesn’t even know if he wants to rent the room out anymore. That didn’t sit well with me at all. I was told by him that I was the only prospect who showed up on time for viewing and showed interest. I don’t mean to be desperate but I also don’t want to be homeless. I’m not a dirty or flimsy person, I’m very calm, jovial and collected. But the few landlords I’ve seen have made me to not even proceed with investing my time and money with this app. This is my honest feedback and it’s been happening to me that’s why I can’t be quiet about it anymore.
Developer Response
Hi Noris, thanks for getting in touch. We don't allow discrimination of any kind on our site/app so we find your report concerning and our Site Moderation Team would like to hear more about your experience on the site/app. Please call on 0161 768 1162 or send them an email at site.moderator@spareroom.co.uk, they're available 7-days a week and investigate all reports made to them. Best wishes,The SpareRoom Team
In this update, we’ve introduced Google Sign In, making it even quicker and easier for you to register or log in to your account.
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Version 5.58.2
The developer, Flatshare Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
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Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Location
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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