Roost: Find Your Roommate
What is Roost?
Free app for finding compatible roommates through profiles, a home-life quiz, and ranked member matches.
Roost is a lifestyle app that helps students, new grads, and young professionals find roommates. Users answer practical questions and a home-life quiz, then build a photo-and-prompt profile and see members ranked by explainable compatibility. Matches happen when interest is mutual, and users can chat in the app.
Pricing. Roost is free, with no in-app purchases on the App Store.
Good for
- Students looking for a compatible roommate
- New graduates searching for shared housing
- Young professionals comparing home-life habits before matching
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Why this app is in C tier
C tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Roost scores 61 out of 100: rating 100, rating count 45, App Store search rank 0, update recency 100. The four parts are averaged and C tier follows from that score within this list.
Description
Roost helps students, new grads, and young professionals find compatible roommates. Answer a few practical questions and a quick home-life quiz, create your own photo-and-prompt profile, and discover real members ranked by explainable compatibility.
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Build your profile with photos, housing preferences, and details about your home life. Preview how your profile looks to others. Search together with a current roommate, send a handshake on something specific, match when the interest is mutual, and chat in the app. Safety tools include blocking, confidential reporting, a download of your data, and self-service account deletion.
Roost is for adults 18 and older. Roost never processes rent, deposits, or housing payments.
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Questions about Roost
Who can use Roost?
Roost is for adults 18 and older. It helps students, new grads, and young professionals find compatible roommates.
Does Roost handle rent or deposits?
No. The listing says Roost never processes rent, deposits, or housing payments.
What safety tools does Roost include?
The listing names blocking, confidential reporting, a download of your data, and self-service account deletion.
Is Roost free?
Yes. Roost is free on the App Store, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roost right for me?
Roost is built for students looking for a compatible roommate, new graduates searching for shared housing, young professionals comparing home-life habits before matching. It sits in the roommate finding list on AppTierList.
Is Roost worth it?
Roost is C tier, ranked #11 of 15 roommate finding apps with a score of 61 out of 100, from a 5.0 App Store rating across 3 ratings. 10 apps rank above it in the same list.
How does Roost compare to roomiez?
Roost is C tier at 61; roomiez is C tier at 61. They score the same. Roost is free, with no in-app purchases, roomiez is free, with no in-app purchases.
How often is Roost updated?
Roost was updated 26 days ago, which counts in its favour.
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All the facts
Ranking
- List
- Roommate Finding (C tier, #11)
- Tier
- C (Situational)
- Score
- 61 / 100
- Rank in list
- #11 of 15
- Ranking certainty
- early: few ratings or search ranks so far
Ratings
- App Store rating
- 5.0 out of 5, every App Store country
- Ratings
- 3
App
- Price
- Free download
- App Store category
- Lifestyle
- Current version
- (26 days ago)
- Size
- 13 MB
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Age rating
- 17+
- Languages
- 1
- Runs on
- iPhone
Links
- Developer pages
- Website · Support · Privacy policy
- Maker
- not verified
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
App Store data read · ranking