“Just one big scam. You have to pay to read messages. Which I did. Only to find out everyone who will actually respond to me is a bot or scammer. I had this for three months and didn't even come close to finding a roommate or place. If you…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 414 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Roomster® 5M+Downloads
Roomster Corp.Find Rooms & Roommates • Roomster — Your Global Roommate Finder Looking for a…
3.3 ★36,075 ratings
5M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Find Rooms & Roommates • Roomster — Your Global Roommate Finder Looking for a new place to live or the perfect roommate to share it with? Roomster is your all-in-one solution for finding rooms for rent, apartments, rooms for rent and compatible roommates — anywhere in the world.
What Roomster lets you do
Browse millions of listings for rooms, apartments and co-living spaces in 190+ countries.
Filter by city, budget, amenities, lifestyle and roommate preferences.
Build a detailed profile that highlights who you are and what you’re looking for in a home or roommate.
Chat directly in-app with potential roommates or landlords — no email backlog or lost threads.
Post your own listing (room, sublet or spare place) with photos, description and availability.
Stay in the loop: get alerts when new rooms or roommates match your criteria.
Why choose Roomster…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.1.117 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.1.118, updated 2026-09-28.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 1.1.117, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 1.1.118 · 2026-09-28
No release notes were provided for this version.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 414 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 414 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 414 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“total SCAM of an application. do not waste your time and hopes on this app. they let you post for free but your incoming inquiries or messages are locked behind a paywall - if you try to include info for your listing, they delete numbers…”
“Disgusting practice of hiding messaging behind a paywall. Absolutely horrid.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.1.118.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
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