International Student App (UK)
Discover the International Student App (UK), a free app helping international students settle, stay well, and thrive – covering UK healthcare, wellbeing, and the everyday systems that no one thinks to explain.
If you work in student services, international support, or student wellbeing at a UK university or college, you have one trusted resource to put in students' hands from day one.
This means every international student gets the same reliable answers – whenever they arrive, and whoever they happen to speak to first.
Available free on the Apple App Store and Google Play. No account is required to download or use the app.
The first weeks shape everything
For international students, starting university is a transition on every level at once – a new country, a new culture, a new healthcare system, often in a second or third language.
Most arrive with resilience and excitement. But many are quietly overwhelmed – unsure how to register with a GP, uncertain what's normal, reluctant to ask questions they worry will make them seem unprepared.
And when small uncertainties go unanswered, they grow – and students may underperform and require mental health support. That's why this app exists.
Is this you?
Built for student services, international teams, and student wellbeing leads. Three problems you'll recognise:
- Induction can't cover everything – too much information, too fast, at exactly the moment students are least able to absorb it.
- Your teams answer the same questions repeatedly – GP registration, banking, transport, what to do when someone feels unwell.
- The students who struggle most ask least – often the ones furthest from home, and least sure it's acceptable to admit they're lost.
All of it costs something – in staff time on repeat questions, in students who disengage early, and in a welcome that varies depending on who they meet first.
What you're giving students
A trusted companion from arrival onwards. Put the app in their pocket and you can:
- Help them get ready for UK life – healthcare, accommodation, transport, finance, and everyday systems.
- Support their wellbeing – clear, accessible mental and physical health guidance.
- Help them navigate university with confidence – academic expectations, services, and how to ask for help.
- Point them to the right support – university services, NHS provision, helplines, and charities.
- Show them what to do in a crisis – calm, clear next steps when urgent help is needed.
The app sits alongside your existing services – reducing confusion, answering common questions consistently, and supporting students when your teams can't.
For broader health and wellbeing support, the Student Health App offers complementary guidance for all UK students.
Make a difference – without straining budgets or teams
Four priorities it supports:
- Help students settle faster – confident students engage sooner, and struggle less quietly.
- Free up your team – fewer repeat questions, more time for students who genuinely need a person.
- Support retention – students who feel oriented and supported are more likely to stay and succeed.
- Deliver a consistent welcome – the same reliable information for every student, every intake.
Free for students and institutions. No contracts, no set-up, no personal data collected.
Built to the standards you'd expect
Co-created with international students and support teams, and developed in partnership with Student Minds.
- PIF TICK accredited
- ORCHA assessed
- NHS DTAC compliant
More on how we develop and quality-assure our content.
Make it feel like yours
Add a branded homepage and a directory of your campus services, support, and pathways – building belonging from arrival, and connecting trusted guidance to what you already offer.
Ready to talk?
If you'd like to explore how the International Student App could support your students and staff, let's spend 20 minutes on it.