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ReadMess • Hostel • Shared flat
No more arguing over the mess accounts. The app does the maths.
Just log the bazar costs, the meals and each member's deposit. Mess Manager calculates the meal rate, everyone's share and who owes what — automatically. No paper, no calculator, no month-end panic.
Free to start • Backed up online every day
- Downloads
- 100K+
- Online backup
- Daily
Month-end always looks the same
A page goes missing, a sum comes out wrong, and then someone says “I didn't eat that many meals”.
The numbers never match
One missed entry throws off the whole month's meal rate — and finding where it went wrong takes hours.
Only the manager can see it
Want to know your balance? Ask the manager and wait. Nobody can check for themselves.
Records disappear
Change your phone or lose the notebook and every previous month is gone for good.
How Mess Manager fixes it
One shared ledger, fully online. The manager enters the day's numbers and everyone else sees the updated accounts from their own phone, any time.
Features
Everything a mess actually needs
Whether it's four friends or a thirty-person hostel, the daily work takes a few taps.
Automatic meal rate
Enter total bazar cost and total meals — the meal rate, each member's share and their running balance are worked out for you.
Costs and deposits
Track bazar spending, rent, wifi bills and other shared costs separately, alongside what each member has paid in.
Instant notifications
Every member gets a notification the moment a meal, cost or deposit is added or edited. Nothing happens quietly.
Bazar day scheduling
Set who does the shopping on which day ahead of time and let the app do the reminding.
Mess chat
A built-in group chat for your mess — shopping lists, notices and everything else in one place.
PDF export
Download any month's full accounts as a PDF. Keep your own backup or share it with the group.
Full month history
Open the current month or any previous one and see the detail behind every number. Nothing is ever deleted.
Members and managers
Add or remove members, and hand over the manager role at any time with the current manager's consent.
To-let and news feed
Got a free seat? Post a to-let on the feed, find new members, or buy and sell second-hand items.
How it works
Set up your mess in four steps
You can have the whole mess running on day one.
- 1
Create your account
Sign up with an email and password, or log straight in with Google.
- 2
Create your mess
From the dashboard, create a mess with its name and currency.
- 3
Add your members
Use “Add Member” to bring everyone in. Each person logs in with their own email.
- 4
Log the daily numbers
Add bazar costs, meals and deposits as they happen. The month-end summary builds itself.
Who it's for
Bachelor messes
Cooking together and paying together — with accounts everyone can trust.
Hostels & dormitories
More members, more entries, all on a single dashboard.
Shared flats
Split rent, bills and groceries with friends without the spreadsheet.
Pricing
Start for free
The core of running your mess accounts is always free. Premium adds the extras — and helps cover our server costs.
Free
৳0 forever
Enough for a small mess to run its day-to-day accounts.
- Meal, bazar cost and deposit entries
- Automatic meal rate and balances
- Add and remove members
- Full detail for the current month
- Log in from any device
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Premium
By member count per month
The pack is based on your mess's total member count. Current packs and prices are shown on the order page inside the app.
- Everything in Free
- Full detail for every past month
- PDF export
- Mess chat
- Automatic bazar-day scheduling
- Post to-let listings
- 24/7 support team
Premium can be bought by the manager alone or by everyone — whoever buys it gets the features.
Warning: only send payments to the numbers shown inside the app. We are not responsible for money sent to any other number.
FAQ
Questions we get a lot
Can I use the app for free?
Yes. Logging meals, bazar costs and deposits — the core of running a mess — is free. Extras like PDF export, full history for past months and mess chat come with Premium.
Does the month have to end on the 1st?
No. You can start and finish a month on any date you like — plenty of messes close their accounts on the 10th. Nothing closes automatically; the month keeps running until you end it.
Can I fix a wrong entry?
Yes. Edit the entry and put in the correct value. If editing can't fix it, set the amount to 0 and then delete the entry from Active Month Details.
What if someone leaves mid-month?
Their accounts stay accurate up to that date. Settle what they owe or are owed, then remove them from the member list — everyone else's accounts carry on as normal.
Does everyone need Premium, or is the manager enough?
Either works. Everyone can buy it, or just the manager. But the features only apply to the person who bought it.
Why isn't the whole app free?
The app is entirely online. Storing your data and keeping it running costs us money every month, servers included. Premium offsets that and keeps us motivated to keep improving the app.
Could I lose my data?
No. Everything lives in an online database that is backed up every day. Change phones and you can still log in from any device and see all your past accounts. You can also save your own PDF backups.
How do I contact you directly?
Message our Facebook page, ping us on Messenger, or reach us on WhatsApp any time. We'll get back to you.
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