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THE SAFE STUDENT NETWORK

Designed to make your university experience better — every single day.

DEQUAD is the only university-verified platform built for real connections, daily wellbeing, and a community that always has your back.

University students laughing together on campus

OUR APPROACH

Built for students, by students.
Not for random dating.

Starting university should be exciting — but for most students it's also lonely, overwhelming, and academically intense. Existing apps either treat you like a target audience or a swipe statistic. DEQUAD is different. We're a closed network of verified UK students, designed by students who lived through the loneliness, the exam stress, and the late-night safety scares, with one goal: make every day at university genuinely better.

54%of UK students report frequent loneliness*
1 in 3experience a mental-health issue during their degree*
71%wish they'd made friends from outside their flat sooner*

*Sources: ONS, Student Minds, NUS surveys 2023–24.

HOW IT WORKS

Three steps to a better year.

01

Verify with your university email

Sign up in 60 seconds using your .ac.uk address. We never share it. Once verified, you join a closed network of students from real UK universities — no bots, no fake profiles, no off-platform creeps.

02

Build your profile around what actually matters

Tag your course, society interests, study habits, and what you're looking for — study mates, society buddies, gym partners, or just someone to grab coffee with. No looks-first swiping. We surface compatibility based on overlap, not photos.

03

Connect, chat, and look after your wellbeing

Match with peers, message safely, log your daily mood, and access 24/7 support. Every conversation is monitored by safeguarding tools that quietly flag crisis content to trained admins — so help arrives before things escalate.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Find your crowd.

Peer matching based on the things that actually predict friendship — modules, society interests, study style, the music you listen to, the gym you go to. Verified .ac.uk emails only, so every match is a real student from a real campus.

Track your mind.

Daily 10-second mood check-ins build a personal wellbeing baseline — so you spot a dip before it becomes a crisis, and so do we.

Safeguarding that actually works.

Every message is silently scanned for crisis language, harassment, and bullying. High-risk content triggers an instant alert to trained university safeguarding staff — not random moderators in another country. Privacy-first, not surveillance-first.

24/7 Support, human-backed.

An assistant answers in seconds for the small stuff. For anything serious, a real human from the support team takes over. Average response time: under 4 minutes.

Student studying calmly on campus

VERIFIED & PROTECTED

A closed network for peace of mind.

Most "social" apps trade your safety for growth. We do the opposite. DEQUAD is intentionally smaller, slower, and stricter — so when you make a connection here, you can trust it.

  • Verified UK students only. Active .ac.uk email required at sign-up and re-checked each term.
  • Safeguarding in every message. Crisis language is flagged instantly to trained safeguarding leads, never to other students.
  • Zero tolerance for harassment. Reports are reviewed within 4 hours by a human. Confirmed offenders are banned across the network.
  • You own your data. One-tap export, one-tap delete. We never sell or share your info with universities, advertisers, or anyone else.

FROM REAL STUDENTS

Less doomscroll. More real moments.

Finally, an app where I can just meet people from my course without it feeling like Tinder.
— Sarah, UoB
The mood tracking actually helps me realise when I'm burning out before exams.
— James, LSE
Knowing everyone on here is a verified student makes it so much less daunting.
— Priya, KCL

Questions? We've got you.