Flatmate Finders vs Flatmates
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flatmate Finders
Find your ideal home or flatmate with personalized searches, detailed profiles, and secure communication features. The app offers free in-app calls and notifications for new matches and messages, ensuring a quick and safe search experience.
- Personalized searches
- Detailed user profiles
- Instant messaging
- Free in-app calls
- Home listing reviews
- Match notifications
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Personalised searches, detailed profiles, instant messages and free in-app calls ensure that you find the perfect home or flatmate quickly, easily and safely. Every home listing is reviewed by our team to help you get the best results. You'll receive notifications about new matches and messages so you don't miss out. Suitable for people of all ages, shared and vacant homes, short to long-term stays, singles/couples/friends, LGBTI+, pet friendly homes, and all rent budgets.
Flatmates
Find your perfect flatmate or a new home with Australia's leading shared accommodation app. Browse thousands of listings, create detailed profiles, and connect safely with a secure messaging platform. Easily list a spare room or search for available properties.
- Thousands of property and people listings
- Easy listing creation for spare rooms
- Detailed search for rooms and flatmates
- Listing alerts for new properties
- Create 'room-wanted' profiles
- Secure messaging platform
- Listing moderation and support
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Flatmates.com.au is Australia's #1 app for share accommodation. With more than 40,000 property and people listings active per month*, you're sure to find the right home or flatmate with us. Have a spare room? It's easy to list your place and be found by potential flatmates. Simply create a listing in just a few minutes and be matched with potential flatmates. You can even use our detailed search feature to browse "room-wanted" profiles to find someone who is right for your home. Need a place? It's easy to look for a new home through our detailed search feature. We can also alert you of new listings that match your search through our listing alerts. Create a "room-wanted" profile so property listers can get in touch with you to ensure you don't miss out. Safety and Security Flatmates.com.au moderates all listings and we have a full-time team ready to help if you're ever unsure about something. Our custom built message platforms helps you keep your details safe, meaning you can share your details when you're comfortable and ready. *Average active listings per month on Flatmates.com.au over the past twelve months.
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Verdict
Flatmate Finders and Flatmates both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Flatmate Finders's written reviews are positive against 16% of Flatmates's. Flatmate Finders also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Flatmates's advantage is ratings volume (57 vs 14). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Flatmate Finders sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Flatmates sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Flatmate Finders against 4.5 for Flatmates. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 57 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Flatmate Finders's written reviews are positive against 16% of Flatmates's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flatmate Finders | Flatmates |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (57 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better | 16.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 57 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | FLATMATE FINDERS PTY LTD | realestate.com.au Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Flatmate Finders
Flatmates
User reviews
Flatmate Finders
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Fast and efficient matching
- ✅ Helpful for finding flatmates/tenants
- 💰 Good value for money
- 🌟 High success rate in finding accommodation/tenants
Room to improve
- ⚠️ Many inactive/old listings
- 💸 Expensive subscription fees
- 🚫 Limited filtering options
- 🤔 Lack of tenant reviews/landlord background checks
- 🤖 Presence of fake accounts/scammers
Flatmates
From 57 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for finding accommodation
- 🌟 Great app overall
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 💰 Expensive subscription
- 🔍 Lack of functionality
- 📥 Delayed messages for non-subscribers
- 🤖 Fake listings and scammers
Bugs and requests
Flatmate Finders
Reported bugs
8 issues- App is very slow and sometimes does not load
- Messages not loading
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- Filters are ignored
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- App deactivates profiles without clear reason
- Issues with dark mode
- Message field could be bigger
Requested features
15 requests- Allow setting hard filters for matches
- Improve filtering options (gender, couples, pets, budget)
- Add tenant review system
- Implement landlord background checks
- Allow cutting and pasting mobile numbers
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- Enable calling directly from the app
- Filter out inactive users
- Show last online date on profiles
- Filter by move-in date preferences
- More gender options
- Remove sexuality as a filter criterion
- Improve the matching algorithm accuracy
- Allow deleting profiles from matches feed
- Larger message field
- Improve dark mode functionality
Flatmates
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent app crashes
- Login and account issues
- Messaging and profile viewing problems
- Inconsistent app behavior
Requested features
4 requests- Improved search and filtering options
- Better messaging and notification system
- Removal of inactive/taken listings
- More user verification and security measures
In-app purchases
Flatmate Finders
- Audio and video call service2 variants$2.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$7.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$9.99
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- Flatmate service for 14 days$12.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month2 variants$14.99
- Flatmate service for 14 days$14.99
- Flatmate service for 1 month$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$17.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$19.99
- Flatmate service for 2 months$22.99
Flatmates
- Boost Plan$5.99
- Offer Plan$12.99
- Person Basic Plan$12.99
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- Property Offer$12.99
- Person Offer$12.99
- Basic Plan$17.99
- Person Full Plan$19.99
- Full Plan$22.99
- Property Basic Plan$22.99
- Property Full Plan$29.99
