FlatHunt Get the app

Flat replacement for Indian cities

Find a flat.
Find your people.

Flats, rooms, PG beds and flatmates — with no brokerage. Take over a room someone is leaving, or find the person who takes yours.

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  • LinkedIn-verified profiles
  • Commute & what's nearby
  • Alerts for new matches
  • No brokerage, ever
The app's map view in Bengaluru: rooms marked as pins around your pin, the selected one 2.8 km away at ₹32,000 a month, and a carousel of rooms below — a 3BHK in Koramangala with its distance to the metro, a hospital and a supermarket.
A listing in the app: a 1RK in BTM Layout, Bengaluru at ₹18,500 a month, about ₹32,570 all-in, with rent, maintenance and deposit, no brokerage, and the nearest metro, hospital, pharmacy, park and supermarket.

The situation

Leaving mid-lease? The empty room becomes your problem.

The agreement runs on, the deposit is with the owner, and your share is due on the first. So you post in four WhatsApp groups and hope.

A broker wants a month's rent

To introduce you to a room your own flatmates are already filling.

Group posts scroll away in an hour

And whoever would have said yes wasn't looking at the time.

Listing sites are built for landlords

Not for the person leaving one room in a flat of four.

How it works

Both sides of the same handover.

If you're leaving

  1. Post the room

    Rent, deposit, what's included, and the house rules that decide it.

  2. People who match get told

    Anyone whose saved search fits hears the moment you post.

  3. Talk, then hand over

    Chat, meet, pick your replacement, and mark the room closed.

If you're looking

  1. Say what you want

    Budget, area, diet, room type. Save it once and the search keeps running.

  2. See the whole cost

    Rent plus maintenance, bills and help — what you'll actually pay.

  3. Message the person, not an agent

    Whoever lives there. Nobody's commission depends on the answer.

What you get that you don't have now

Four things that decide whether you find a room or miss it.

Alerts

The good rooms go in days. You'll hear in seconds.

Save what you're after once. The moment a matching room goes up, your phone tells you — not in a daily digest.

  • Save searches for different areas or budgets
  • Fires the instant a listing goes live
  • Being first to reply is most of the advantage
A room matching “HSR, under ₹20k” just went up
₹18,500/mo · Private room · Veg only · 2 min ago
Ananya replied about the Indiranagar room
“Yes, still free from the 1st — want to see it Saturday?”

Map

“Twenty minutes from work” — measured, not promised.

Set your office once and every room is measured from it by road — not in a straight line across a creek.

  • Your commute, drawn on the map
  • Sort the whole city by drive time, nearest first
  • Metro, groceries, gym and hospital, each with how far
The map with a route drawn from an office at Jio World Drive to a ₹40,000 room across the creek in Bandra East, and pins for the nearest station at 823 m, gym at 700 m, supermarket at 920 m, park at 330 m and hospital at 640 m.
A real room, measured from an office at Jio World Drive.

Chat

Ask the awkward questions. Agree the price.

Message whoever lives there — not an agent on commission. Ask about the water in May, the deposit, the cat. Settle it before anyone travels.

  • Straight to the poster, with photos if you need them
  • Nobody's cut depends on the answer
  • Block or report anyone, once
Deposit is 2 months, but I'd do 1.5 if you can take it from the 1st.
Works for me. Is the maintenance on top of the ₹18,500?
Included. Only electricity is split three ways.
Great — Saturday morning to see it?

Who you're talking to

A real name, a real job, and a badge that had to be earned.

A tick means LinkedIn confirmed the profile exists and that its name matches the account. Change your name and the tick comes off.

  • Photo, age, profession and company on every profile
  • Phone numbers stay hidden until you choose to share
  • Report or block anyone; photos and text are screened
Ananya Rao
Product designer @ Zeta · LinkedIn verified

The tick means the profile is real and the name matches. It is not a background check.

Also in there

The details that save a wasted Saturday.

House rules up front

Diet, smoking, pets and guests — stated before anyone travels to find out.

Find flatmates, not just rooms

Got a place and need two more? Team up before anyone signs anything.

What the setup costs, itemised

The outgoing tenant's fridge and TV, priced and listed — or filtered out.

Who's already living there

The household at a glance, and who the free room is open to.

Hunt a city before you move to it

Set the new city and office, and the map opens there.

Search by building, not just area

Type the society you want. Search covers names, localities and descriptions.

Questions

The ones worth answering.

Is there really no brokerage?
None. You're talking to the person leaving the room or the people living in the flat. There is no agent in the middle and no commission to pay.
What does it cost?
Posting a room, browsing what's nearby, shortlisting and chatting are free and stay free. A subscription unlocks the filtered Matches feed, the map, new-match alerts, teaming up with flatmates, and revealing a contact number — weekly or monthly, because a flat hunt ends and a plan you forget to cancel is not a business we want. Every account gets a free week first.
Who posts on FlatHunt?
Three kinds of poster, and the app asks which you are before anything else. Tenants leaving a shared flat who need somebody to take over their room. Owners letting a flat or a room directly to a new tenant, with no agent in between. And PG and hostel operators listing beds. Seekers get all three in one search, and filter to whichever they want.
How do you keep it safe?
The verified tick comes from signing in with LinkedIn, so it is LinkedIn confirming who somebody is. Phone numbers are never shown in a listing, anyone can be reported or blocked, photos and text are screened, and reports are reviewed.
What exactly is a flat replacement?
Somebody in a shared flat is moving out and needs a person to take their room. The rent agreement, the deposit arrangement and the other flatmates all stay as they are — only the one person changes. It is the most common way a room in a good flat actually becomes available, and it almost never reaches a listing site. The longer version.
Which cities can I use it in?
Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata and Chandigarh. A two-sided market is only as good as its supply, so the city list grows when there are enough rooms in a place to be worth opening it.
Is my phone number visible to anyone?
Never on a listing or a profile. You chat in the app, and a number is only ever revealed by you deciding to reveal it — we record who asked and when. Plenty of flats get taken without a number changing hands at all.
Does any money go through FlatHunt?
No. Rent, deposit and anything else stay between you, your flatmates and the owner, settled however you would have settled them anyway. We never hold a deposit, never take a cut of rent, and will never ask you to pay one through the app — if anybody on FlatHunt asks you to, report them.
How do I delete my account?
From Profile, inside the app — it removes your listings, messages and photos, not just your login. You do not have to email anyone or wait for us to action it. What gets deleted.
Do you handle the rent agreement?
No. FlatHunt introduces the two of you and gets out of the way — the agreement, deposit and any paperwork stay between you, your flatmates and the owner.

Your room, handed over properly.

No brokerage, and nobody takes a cut of your deposit.

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Guides

The things nobody explains before your first flat share.