Peer matching platform for international students
Get your international students meeting in person.
kommili matches your international students with peers who share their interests and languages, and shows your office what comes of it. Less manual work for your team, more connection for your students.
Meeting in person is what we prefer. Online meetings are just as welcome when meeting on campus does not work.
Already a partner university? Go to the platform at connect.kommili.app
Are you a student? How to join
The challenge
Record numbers arrive. Too few connect with local students.
402,000
international students in Germany in winter semester 2024/25, about 14% of all students
16%
of international bachelor students leave within three semesters, against 13% of German students
28%
reported difficulty making contact with local students in the last large survey
Sources: DAAD, Wissenschaft weltoffen 2025; DSW survey 2016, cited by DAAD.
Today
Most student programmes still run on forms and spreadsheets.
Hours of manual matching
Coordinators pair students by hand at the busiest moment of the semester.
Pairs nobody follows up
Matches are made, but no one knows whether the students ever meet.
No evidence for leadership
There is no data to show what the programme achieved, or to defend its budget.
How it works
Four steps from orientation to a first meeting.
Invite
Your office shares a code or QR poster at orientation. Only your students can join.
Profile
Students add their interests, the languages they speak and want to learn, and their levels.
Match
kommili suggests peers and tandem partners, with a first match within 24 hours.
Meet
Students arrange to meet on campus, or online when meeting in person is not possible. Reminders on day 3 and day 7 help it happen.
Your dashboard shows activation, matches and meetings by cohort. A semester report sums it up for leadership.
For your office
Less manual work, and proof of what your programme achieved.
Your branded space
“Your university, powered by kommili”: your logo and colours, checked automatically for readable contrast.
Cohorts and invite codes
One cohort per intake, programme or event. Codes and QR posters you can revoke at any time.
Interest and tandem matching
Shared topics, plus language pairs with CEFR levels for tandems. Every suggestion gives its reasons.
Meetings, not just chats
Students arrange meetings in the app, in person or online, and are nudged on day 3 and day 7 to meet.
Orientation programmes
Publish welcome sessions and courses, in person or online, inside your space.
Staff dashboard
Live activation, matches and meetings, by cohort.
Semester outcome report
A PDF for leadership: participation, meetings, local contact and student feedback.
Moderation and safety
Blocking, reporting and a moderation queue. A verified-university badge on every profile.
Feature status: every feature shown here is part of the pilot. Planned: sign-in with university accounts (single sign-on). Deliberately not in year one: video calling.
For students: free, in the browser on any phone, nothing to install, in English and German.
How we measure
Figures you can explain.
- An arranged meeting counts when two students have set a place and time in the app.
- A confirmed meeting counts when at least one of the two confirms it happened and neither disagrees. In-person and online meetings are counted separately.
- Small groups stay anonymous Figures for groups of fewer than five people are hidden, so no one can be identified from a statistic.
- Observed or self-reported Activation, matches and meetings come from the platform. How students feel is asked in short surveys and reported separately.
What the figures do not show: whether kommili prevents dropout or reduces loneliness. There is no reliable evidence for that yet, and we do not claim it.
Your path to kommili
From first call to orientation week.
- 1
Discover
A call, a live demo and documents for your data protection officer.
- 2
Agree
A proposal with scope, dates and success measures, then the order.
- 3
Set up
Your space, cohorts and codes, and an introduction for your team.
- 4
Launch
Sign-up at orientation week, first matches within 24 hours.
Built with security
Keeping students' data safe.
Hosted in Germany
Servers at Hetzner in Falkenstein, encrypted connections and automated backups in Germany.
Each institution kept apart
Separated at database level, with automated isolation tests on every release. Any access by our team across institutions is logged.
Closed sign-up
Only students with your invite code or a verified email at your university's domain can join.
No trackers, no advertising
No advertising or analytics services, fonts served from our own servers. Student data is used only to run the programme.
Questions
What International Offices ask us
Does this replace our buddy programme?
No. It runs your buddy or tandem programme with less manual work and gives you data on it. Your coordinators stay in charge.
What does kommili cost?
Costs depend on scope and length. The pilot runs for one semester at a fixed price based on the number of students taking part. After that comes an annual licence, sized by the number of activated student accounts. After our first conversation you receive a proposal for your university; email us at hi@kommili.com.
Can local and German students join?
Yes, and they should. Pairing international students with local students is the outcome most offices care about, and the semester report tracks it.
Do students need to install an app?
No. kommili works in the browser on any phone or laptop, and it is free for students.
What if the pilot does not work?
The success measures are agreed together before launch and reported honestly at the end. Then you decide whether to continue.
Explore a pilot with your university
Tell us about your buddy or language-tandem programme, and we can discuss whether kommili is a good fit, what introducing it would involve and what information your university needs for a first evaluation.
Or email us directly: hi@kommili.com