"Rent a friend app", "rent a friend app download", "rent a friend app download for android", "rent a friend app login": Google suggests all of them, and most of them lead nowhere good. Here is what exists.
Does RentAFriend have an app?#
As of October 2026 we could not find an official RentAFriend app on the Apple App Store or Google Play. The service runs on rentafriend.com, which works in a phone browser: you browse profiles free and pay a membership (reported at about $24.95 a month) to message. If you find an app called "Rent a Friend" in a store, check the developer name: the ones we saw were unrelated games, roommate finders, or copycats using the phrase.
What the download searches actually return#
- Copycat apps that use the name and ask for a payment to unlock chat. The real RentAFriend does not sell an app.
- Dating and "companion" apps that are not platonic and have nothing to do with the service.
- Pay-per-minute video-chat apps (Rent a Cyber Friend is the best known) for talking to someone online, a different category with its own fees.
- Regional services in India, Malaysia and the UK that are their own businesses.
Rule of thumb: never pay to download anything in this category, and never give card details to an app that promises "rent a friend" before you have seen a single real profile.
How the real thing works on a phone#
Both real services are web-first. On RentAFriend you browse free and pay the membership to message; you then arrange everything yourself and pay the friend in cash. On Roavi you open roavi.com on your phone, browse Local Friends by city, see their photos, languages, interests, hourly rate and reviews, and message free; the only money that changes hands is the friend's rate, paid to them directly, with no commission. Every profile is reviewed by a person before it goes live. The honest caveat: Roavi is strongest in Latin America and Asia and still thin in most US cities.
For the people who want to list#
You do not need an app to get paid for your time either: a profile with three real photos, your rate and your free hours, from your phone's browser. How the work pays.
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Every site, real and fake: rent a friend websites.
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Every city where you can do this today, with the live number of Local Friends in each: rent a friend, by the hour. In the United States the list is also by state.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does RentAFriend have an app?
We could not find an official RentAFriend app on the Apple App Store or Google Play as of October 2026; the service runs on its website, which works in a phone browser behind a paid membership. Apps that use the name are not the company. Check the stores yourself before downloading anything.Is there a free rent a friend app?
Roavi works on a phone and lets you browse and message Local Friends free; the only payment is the friend's own hourly rate, paid to them directly. Any 'rent a friend' app asking for a payment to download or to unlock chat is not RentAFriend and should be treated with suspicion.