Your people are already there. Connect before you land.
palayn is the verified student community for international students. Find seniors, roommates & friends at your exact university — months before your flight takes off.
Three simple steps. Real verified people. Real peace of mind.
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Create your profile
Sign up with your university email or personal email. Fill in your origin country, destination, university, and course. Takes 2 minutes.
🔒 Edu-verified = full access
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Find your people
Search and filter by origin country, university, course, city — or any combination. Get automatically matched with a senior buddy 90 days before landing.
✦ AI-powered matching
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Land with confidence
Arrive knowing your roommate, your senior buddy, your neighbourhood, the best Desi restaurant, and a community of people who've been exactly where you are.
🎯 Day 1 ready
Features
Everything a student abroad actually needs.
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Buddy Before Landing
Get auto-matched with a verified senior at your exact university, same course, same origin — 90 days before you land. No more cold WhatsApp messages into the void.
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Rahul Verma ✓
Georgia Tech · MS CS · 2nd year · 🇮🇳 Delhi
98% match
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Ananya Kumar ✓
Georgia Tech · MS Cyber Sec · 1st year · 🇮🇳 Mumbai
94% match
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Survival Score
Gamified pre-arrival checklist. Complete real tasks, earn XP, compete with your batch. Land 100% ready.
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/ 100 — You're almost there!
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Booked flight to Atlanta
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Found housing (North Ave Apts)
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Connected with 2 seniors
Get US SIM card deal
Open US bank account
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Verified Housing Board
The only housing board where scam listings literally can't exist. Every listing posted by an edu-verified student or ID-verified landlord. Find roommates with a personality match score.
✓ Scam-free guaranteed🤝 Roommate DNA match📍 Campus distance
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North Ave Apartments
0.4 mi to Georgia Tech · $940/mo · 2 spots left
Verified ✓
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Live Voice Rooms — Ask a Senior
Weekly live audio AMAs hosted by verified seniors. Ask your burning questions in real-time. Sessions are auto-transcribed and searchable forever.
LIVE NOW
Georgia Tech India Batch AMA 🇮🇳
Hosted by Rahul Verma · 47 listeners
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Rahul
SD
Shreya
47 listening
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PalAI — Your Study Abroad Brain
Ask anything. Get instant answers about visas, housing, banks, SIM cards, OPT, CPT. Plus semantic search across all community posts — find answers even from posts months ago.
✦ Try asking PalAI:
🛂 F-1 visa documents?🏦 Best bank for students?📱 Cheapest US SIM?💼 OPT timeline?
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PalPass — Exclusive Student Deals
Deals negotiated exclusively for verified palayn students. Banks, SIM cards, flights, groceries, textbooks. Only accessible after edu-verification.
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Wise — Free International Transfer
Save up to $40 on first transfer
Claim
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T-Mobile — Student SIM Plan
$25/mo unlimited · Exclusive rate
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Amazon Student — 6 months free
Prime + textbook deals
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Why students trust us
The only verified student community. Zero fakes. Zero scams.
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Edu Email Verification
Only .edu or institutional email holders can post. This alone eliminates 90% of fake accounts and scammers who target students.
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Government ID + Liveness Check
AI-powered face match between your selfie and your passport/national ID. One person, one account. No exceptions. Powered by bank-grade KYC.
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AI Scam Detection
Every housing listing, every post, and every DM is monitored by AI trained to detect scam patterns. Human moderators review flagged content within 2 hours.
Students from universities across the world
🇺🇸Georgia Tech
🇺🇸MIT
🇺🇸Stanford
🇬🇧Oxford
🇬🇧Imperial College
🇨🇦University of Toronto
🇦🇺University of Melbourne
🇩🇪TU Munich
🇺🇸Carnegie Mellon
🇺🇸UT Austin
🇬🇧UCL London
🇨🇦UBC Vancouver
🇺🇸Georgia Tech
🇺🇸MIT
🇺🇸Stanford
🇬🇧Oxford
🇬🇧Imperial College
🇨🇦University of Toronto
🇦🇺University of Melbourne
🇩🇪TU Munich
🇺🇸Carnegie Mellon
🇺🇸UT Austin
🇬🇧UCL London
🇨🇦UBC Vancouver
Real students, real stories
They landed with a crew. Not alone.
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I connected with my senior buddy 3 months before arriving. He literally picked me up from the airport on Day 1. I would have been completely lost without palayn.
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Priya Sharma
MS Cyber Security · Georgia Tech 🇮🇳→🇺🇸
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Found my roommate through palayn's Roommate DNA match. We're both night owls who don't cook. 8 months in and we're best friends. This app genuinely changed my experience.
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Arjun Kumar
MBA · London Business School 🇮🇳→🇬🇧
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The housing board saved me. I almost fell for a $1,200 scam listing on Facebook. On palayn every listing is verified. Found my apartment in 3 days, no stress.
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Mei Ling Ou
MS Finance · Toronto University 🇨🇳→🇨🇦
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The Ask Senior live rooms are insane. I asked about my F-1 visa interview live and got answered by 3 different people who went through it. Better than any YouTube video.
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Samuel Adeyemi
MS CS · Carnegie Mellon 🇳🇬→🇺🇸
★★★★★
My Survival Score made me realise I was missing so many things. Got my SIM, opened a bank, sorted my health insurance — all before landing. Arrived stress-free for the first time in my life.
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Yuki Kamiya
MEng · TU Munich 🇯🇵→🇩🇪
Pricing
Free for students. Always.
palayn will never charge students. We earn through brand partnerships and employer access — not from you.
Free Student
$0/forever
Everything a student needs, free forever. No credit card required.
Full social feed & posts
Buddy Before Landing match
Verified Housing Board
Events & Voice Rooms
Direct messaging (connected users)
PalPass student deals
Unlimited AI assistant (50 messages/mo)
Priority buddy matching
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palayn Pro
$4/month
Unlock the full power of palayn. Less than one cup of coffee. Cancel anytime.
Everything in Free
Unlimited PalAI assistant
Priority buddy matching (2×)
AI semantic post search
Voice Room recording access
City Bible early access
Anonymous PalMind layer
Exclusive Pro deals & discounts
University Partner
Custom
For universities that want to give palayn Pro to their entire international student cohort.
palayn Pro for all students
University-branded community space
Admin dashboard & analytics
Official event creation access
International office integration
Priority moderation & support
Custom onboarding materials
Dedicated account manager
FAQ
Questions you're probably thinking.
Yes, palayn is completely free for students — forever. We make money through brand partnerships (companies pay to offer deals to verified students) and through university partnerships. We will never sell your personal data or charge you without warning.
You can sign up with a regular email and still browse posts, follow people, comment, and explore the housing board. You just won't be able to post or access the Buddy Match until you get your edu email. We save your profile so you can unlock everything the moment your acceptance comes through.
Absolutely. ID documents are processed by a bank-grade KYC provider (similar to what Wise and Revolut use) and deleted immediately after verification. We never store your ID images or biometric vectors. We are GDPR and CCPA compliant. Your data is yours.
palayn works for any student going to any university in any country. Our early launch focuses on the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany — but the platform is built for global use. If your university isn't listed yet, you can add it during sign-up and we'll activate it once 5+ students join.
Our algorithm matches you based on: origin country (highest weight), destination university, course of study, arrival date, and language preference. A senior is matched only if they've opted into the Mentor Program and have capacity. Match scores above 80% are shown first.
We're currently in closed early access with 12,000+ students on our waitlist. Joining the waitlist today gets you priority access when we open, plus palayn Pro free for 3 months. Follow us on Instagram @palayn.app for launch updates.
Your people are waiting for you. 🌍
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