debal.

Addis · co-movers · not a dating app

Quiet residential street at golden hour
Somewhere between home and a lease of your own.

Vol. 01 — leaving home

Your parents’ house
is getting small.
So is living alone.

Debal is a quiet place to find someone else who is ready to leave the family home — and actually share a lease. Rent in ETB. Neighborhoods you know. Move-out months that line up.

Kitchen table with coffee cups and rent papers
Where the real conversations happen.
“I don’t need a date. I need someone who can split the generator bill and still be home by ten.”
— how most of our early conversations actually start

The part nobody glamorizes

Moving out sounds cinematic until you’re staring at a two-bedroom listing alone, wondering if your salary covers both rent and your mother’s voice asking when you’ll visit.

Plenty of apps will introduce you to strangers. Almost none of them start from the specific, slightly awkward truth: you want a housemate so you can leave home.

That’s Debal.

What we built instead

  1. Bole Rd. A profile about move-out month, budget share, and how tidy you actually are.
  2. Kazanchis Browse people on a similar timeline. Connect when living together feels mutual — not “liked.”
  3. The kitchen table Chat about house rules, rent, and areas. Then go look at keys.
Open doorway and keys on a wooden table in afternoon light

The threshold

Keys first. Vibes later — if at all.

In the open

Said plainly

For
People leaving their parents’ house who want to rent and live together.
Not for
Dating, flirting, or collecting matches like Pokémon.
Where
Ethiopia first — Addis neighborhoods, ETB budgets, local common sense.
How trust shows up
Optional verification. Emergency contact. Goals you can read before you chat.

Kitchen note · pin me on the fridge

Sharing a roof is intimate. We treat it that way.

  • You choose what you share before anyone sees your full profile energy.
  • Verification is a badge, not a personality.
  • Emergency contact lives on your profile — for real life, not theatre.
  • If someone feels wrong, leave the chat. Your gut already works.

— the Debal desk

Gold key and house silhouette on dark paper

Places people are already writing into bios

BoleKazanchisGerjiSarbet PiassaCMCMexicoMegenagna BoleKazanchisGerjiSarbet

Out the door

If you’re ready to leave —
bring someone who is too.

Debal is on Android while we walk it with early co-movers. It’s not polished like a billboard. It’s useful like a shared shopping list.

Join Android internal test Write us

Open the link on your phone, accept the tester invite, then install from Play.
Product by Recite Labs · debal.recitelabs.com