As the UK’s number 1 flatshare site, we’ve helped over 13,000,000 people to find their perfect room or roommate. 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 (1 877 834 2909).
i wrote a 3 star due to lact of default. i posted an add for share a room with someone else. was place inappropriate. i have already seen this although i have to ask “spareroom”, does Person seeking Double bed also inappropriate? its basically a hotel. two separate beds in a shared room. what difference does what i did have any difference? anyways i won’t fret any further. there other apps other than “spareroom”. as far as the app states its a nice or optional to find roommates. or people who are traveling or students. although i can’t guarantee you will find much. as every were else. you have to be careful not to accept a good offer to quickly. since it fails to do background checks. while finding room it also comes with a default. @ to the reviewers at spareroom. i already submitted a resquest. “Jennifer-: site moderator” you should definitely look into the double bed option as its also meant for female and male. but its your app. thank you and good day.
terrible app
lynn mccaslin
You get a lot of scammers and they charge you a fortune and again and again they ask you to renew and then you do just to see one message after you've already unsubscribed, you get another straight message and then you can see that message but then you can't see her reply,if she even made one... and once you've unsubscribed after you another stray message that I just mentioned... you, that is me or I, have to reactivate and it charged me a whole lotta money again and it's like less than a month that you get to have your ad shown and get replies from people. There was no message and tried to deactivate and I'm calling to complain them and try to get some money back from them because they're app doesn't work for me anyway and maybe for somebody else or for some people that blocked interest but it doesn't work for me especially right now.Do not trust these people unless you want to spend a lot of money over and over again for like three weeks 20 bucks first time and then 18 bucks second time etc. etc. it's just a rip off or at least for me. as always, Buyer Beware.
Developer Response
Hi Lynn, thank you for reaching out. Once a conversation has begun on our site you won't need to pay to continue it, if you've received a reply from a message you sent you can reply without the upgrade. You may receive Early Bird matches once your upgrade has run out, if you don't want to upgrade again you can contact them for free after 7 days or you can show interest for free, this lets them know you're interested and if they are too they can contact you. 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. We can't see you've ever contacted us to ask for assistance with your account, we'd be happy to help. Please contact us directly at customerservices@spareroom.com. Best wishes,The SpareRoom Team
So Much Potential
nehehen
Spare Room is a decent app. It has its perks and the idea of what it tries to do is amazing. It falls short in a few important areas, but that could easily be fixed if the developers listen. Ive been using it for 2 months but I recently upgraded because I need to find a place within the two months. I dont have a problem with paying for more premium features I guess. The majors flaws I see in this app are the following.Unresponsive landlords. Too many people are able to leave you on read. Whether I meet your qualifications or not, it is important to communicate and let me know if I am able to move forward with you or not. Spare room needs to penalize unresponsive landlords cause at the end of the day, I am paying to not get replies back to my message, which makes it feel like a waste of money. This isnt instagram. Incomplete listings. Why am I constantly seeing listings with minimal to 0 pictures? That should not be allowed. How are you selling a room or apt and no pictures? That screams scam and spare room needs to prevent ppl from being able to list things without pictures. Pictures should be mandatory? WTH. You’re selling a product, let me see it! Female Only. Too many listings are asking for specifically females which I find weird and creepy. You should not be able to ask for a specific gender as a roommate. It is up to you on who you accept as a landlord but your listings should be available for ALL. It’s discrimination and you mind as well let ppl start asking for certain ethnicities and races if you want to go that route.
Developer Response
Hi Nehehen, thanks for getting in touch! We're sorry to hear you didn't receive a reply from the advertiser you contacted, we always advise advertisers to reply to their messages even if it's to let the person know they were unsuccessful, we introduced an Auto Response and Bulk Reply option to make this easier for the advertiser to reply and avoids disappointment. As adverts are privately managed by the person, unfortunately, we're unable to enforce advertisers to reply. We also highly recommend adding photos to your advert, however, some advertisers either choose not to do this for personal security reasons or haven't got round to it yet. Some advertisers are able to state a preference for gender, however, this is only a preference and no advertiser can state 'Female Only'. If you see an advert discriminating against any gender you can report it to us at site.moderator@spareroom.com. Best wishes,The SpareRoom Team
Fix no longer accepting applications filter
MikeCoolReview
I’m currently going through the posted rooms list searching for available options. When I click on an option, sometimes I see no longer accepting applications. Please add the filter functionality to filter out all ads that are no longer accepting applications so that when I click on an ad, I would be ready to book the room rather than seeing no longer accepting applications. I honestly think that if an ad is no longer accepting applications then by default, the ad should be removed from the list.
Developer Response
Hi Mike, We've shared your feedback with our App and Research teams in relation to your suggestion to include a filter to remove ads that are no longer accepting applications. If you want to share anything else, you can also get in touch with them directly by emailing app.feedback@spareroom.co.uk. All the best, 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.
As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts on these updates. You can send us your thoughts using the feedback option at the bottom of the Home screen.
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 .
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