Coinquilino

Coinquilino is a mobile app for finding roommates, renting a room, or listing a spare room, with the deepest coverage in Italian cities such as Milan, Rome, Bologna and Turin. Its signature feature is a request-first model: chats open only after someone accepts.

The app is built around a simple rule that separates it from open-inbox rental apps: you send a request with a short note, and the conversation opens only if the other person says yes. That note becomes the first message, so nobody lands in your inbox uninvited, and declines are silent. Everything you have sent and received sits in one place, the "For you" tab. If you are searching, you get listings with photos, price and area, a map with price markers, and filters for price, rooms and gender, plus details like whether bills are included and whether pets or smoking are allowed. You can also search together with a friend as a pair, and save listings to favorites. If you have a room, you can list it for free, see who opened your listing, and invite people who are looking.

Trust features include phone verification by SMS plus a face liveness check that adds a verified seal, and three vouches from people who know you make verification free. Agency pages carry client reviews, and you can report a person or listing at any time. Incognito mode and no-invite settings are free, and chat and the For you tab have no ads. Browsing, posting, chatting, replying to requests and three requests per day are free; an optional Gold subscription adds unlimited requests, read receipts, more feed visibility, a daily digest, an agency page and the Gold seal. Most rooms and people are in Italy today, with the app also usable in the US and Canada where listings are still few.