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Built for students in tertiary institutions

Everything student life. In one place.

Connect with your campus community, discover opportunities, buy and sell, communicate with classmates, and make student life easier with HowFar.

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Your campus is already a community. HowFar helps bring it together.

The people, the trade, the groups and the information already exist. They are just spread across apps that were never built for campus. HowFar puts them in one place.

Chat

Message classmates, coursemates and sellers without collecting phone numbers first.

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Groups

Join your department, hostel, club or study circle and find new ones worth joining.

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Market

Buy and sell inside your campus, from textbooks to hostel space to haircuts.

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Updates

Timetables, venue changes, assignments and class announcements in one tab.

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Campus Live

A social feed for your campus: follow students, faculty and verified accounts, and post your own moments.

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Live Classes & Online Tests

Join live classes, read handouts and sit tests set by your lecturers, without leaving the app.

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Inside the app

Five tabs. One campus.

HowFar is organised the way a student day actually runs. Scroll to move through the app.

Chat & Calls

Find a coursemate by name and start talking. No phone number swap, no awkward "who is this?". Send voice notes, photos and files, or jump on a voice or video call. Your one on one chats are end-to-end encrypted, so only you and the person you are talking to can read them. Not even HowFar can.

Groups

Your department, your level, your hostel, your fellowship, your football team. Stop begging for the right group link. Find it in Discover, join in a tap, and mute it the moment it gets noisy.

Campus Life

The gist, the wins, the events, the debates. Campus Life is a social feed built only for your school, so everything on it is about people you could actually meet. Post photos and videos, follow students and lecturers, and catch what is trending before it reaches the group chats.

Market

Textbooks, phones, hostel space, hair, food, laundry, repairs. Whatever students buy, students sell, and HowFar puts your listing in front of buyers on your own campus. Post in under a minute, chat in the app, and meet at the gate.

Updates

Lecture moved? Test date announced? Assignment due Friday? It lands in your Updates tab the moment your class rep posts it, not three forwards later. Your timetable, announcements and assignments, all in one place.

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Why HowFar

Built around real student life.

HowFar is not a general social network with a student label on it. Every part of the app comes from something students already do: talk in groups, buy from each other, chase information, and try not to miss anything.

One connected student community

Your class group, your hostel, your department and your side hustle stop living in five different places.

Discover what is around you

Listings, services and events are tied to your campus, so what you see is close enough to actually use.

Built for how students talk

Fast messaging, voice and video calls, groups that scale to a whole faculty, and encrypted direct messages.

Campus information that arrives on time

Announcements and changes reach students directly instead of travelling through three WhatsApp forwards.

Room to earn

Students already sell to each other. HowFar gives that trade a proper shopfront and a wider audience.

Light on data and phones

Built to stay usable on a mid range Android on a weak network, because that is what most students carry.

More than an app. Your campus community.

Whatever your week looks like, it probably touches at least three of these.

Explore the student experience

Chat with anyone on your campus

Find a coursemate by name and start a conversation. No number swap required.

Join the groups that matter

Department, level, hostel, faith group, club. Search the Discover tab and join in one tap.

Meet your classmates

See who is in your course and level, and put faces to the names in your group chat.

Buy and sell

Post what you are selling, browse what is listed near you, and message the seller directly.

Find accommodation

Hostel space, roommates and off campus rooms listed by students and agents around your school.

Find opportunities

Internships, gigs, competitions, scholarships and campus roles posted where students actually look.

Get academic materials

Handouts, notes and past questions shared inside your class, not scattered across ten chats.

Study with HowFar AI

Get a topic explained, a handout summarised, or a quick quiz before your test.

Show up to campus life

Events, fixtures, elections and society activities, with reminders so you do not miss them.

For institutions

Reach your students where they already are.

Notice boards, circulars and forwarded screenshots all lose students somewhere along the way. HowFar gives your school, faculty or department a verified place to speak, inside an app students open every day.

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Reach students where they already are

Announcements land in an app students open every day, instead of a notice board they walk past.

A verified institutional presence

A verified account for your school, faculty or department, so students can tell official from forwarded.

Structured campus communities

Level groups, department groups and society groups with the admin controls to keep them orderly.

Engagement you can see

Understand what reached students, what they opened, and which communities are active.

Student services in one channel

Point students to the right office, form or deadline without another circular.

Tools for lecturers and staff

Lecturers share handouts, run live classes and set online tests. Class reps manage courses, timetables and announcements.

Digital infrastructure without a build

No procurement cycle for a custom app. Your campus joins an existing platform students already use.

HowFar works best with the people who run campus.

Schools, student bodies, businesses and technology partners each hold a piece of student life. We build with them rather than around them.

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Universities

Federal, state and private universities running official campus communities.

Polytechnics

Polytechnics and monotechnics connecting departments and student bodies.

Colleges

Colleges of education, health sciences, agriculture and technology.

Student organisations

Student unions, faculty associations, societies and campus fellowships.

Businesses

Brands and local businesses that want to reach students honestly.

Technology partners

Payments, identity, logistics and infrastructure providers.

Education partners

Learning platforms, publishers, tutors and scholarship programmes.

What students say about it

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A community that is still being built.

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Controls on every profile and listing

Block, mute and report are one tap away, and reports are reviewed by a person.

Requests before strangers reach you

Messages from people you do not know wait in a separate list until you accept.

Your data is not the product

We do not sell student data. What we collect is what the app needs to work.

Notes from HowFar

Writing about campus life, the product, and what we learn from students who use it.

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Questions students ask first

If yours is not here, the Help Center goes deeper, and we answer email.

Visit Help Centerteam@howfar.space

HowFar is a student social marketplace and campus community app. It brings messaging, groups, a campus marketplace, campus life and your class into one place, so student life stops being spread across a dozen apps and group chats.

Your campus. Your community. Your HowFar.

Join the platform built to make student life more connected.

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