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Group activities
Post, discover, and join hangouts across 12 categories — hikes, watch parties, study sessions, concerts, food runs and more. Set a minimum and maximum group size and watch interest build.
The app for campus life
Do things together. Get places together. Built on trust.
Merge is the social mobility and activities app for university students. Discover group activities, find and offer rides, and meet up with verified classmates — all inside one trusted, campus-scoped community. Now starting at UC Irvine.
What we build
Two things students do every day — finally in one trusted place.
Students constantly want to do things together and get places together, but doing that with strangers takes trust. Merge scopes everything to a verified university community, then layers in trust scores, ratings, and reporting so "find people doing the thing you want to do" finally feels safe and effortless.
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Rides
Offer a ride or ask for one. Share your route, departure time, seats, and an optional price — to campus, home for break, or anywhere nearby.
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AI-powered Trending
Merge surfaces the specific things students are rallying around right now — a concert, a matcha run — intelligently grouping look-alike posts into a single trending tile.
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Group chats
Every activity gets a group chat that unlocks the moment enough people join, so the whole group can lock in the details together in real time.
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Trust & ratings
Every member has a trust score shaped by ratings and reports. Rate each other after shared rides and activities, and report anything that crosses a line.
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Friends & privacy
Add connections and close friends, then choose who sees each post — everyone, friends only, or close friends only. You control your audience every time.
How it works
From your university email to a real meet-up in four steps.
Verify
Sign in with your university email through a secure magic link — no password to remember.
Discover
Browse the live board of activities and rides. Filter by topic, date, or what is trending on campus.
Request to join
Join an activity or claim a ride. When enough people are in, the group chat unlocks automatically.
Meet up
Coordinate in chat, share the ride, then rate each other afterward to keep the community trusted.
The core experience
From an idea to a group in minutes.
Activities are the heart of Merge. Post what you want to do, set how many people you need, and let interest build. As soon as you hit your minimum, the activity goes live and the group chat opens — no more lonely group texts that never happen.
- 12 topics — Food & Drink, Outdoors, Concerts, Study, Sports, Gaming, and more
- Open → Active → Full lifecycle with a clear progress bar to your minimum
- Request to Join, then a members-only group chat unlocks
- AI Trending surfaces the moments everyone is rallying around
Mobility, the student way
Rides that fit how students actually move.
Getting to class, splitting a trip home for break, carpooling to a game — Merge makes it easy to offer a seat or ask for one. Every driver and rider carries the same trust signals as the rest of the app, so you always know who you are riding with.
- Offer a ride with route, departure time, seats, and an optional price
- Ask for a ride and let nearby drivers reach out
- Friends-only option when you would rather keep it close
- Trust scores and verification on every profile
Why trust comes first
A verified community, not a feed of strangers.
Everything on Merge is scoped to your campus and built around accountability. Members verify with a university email, carry a trust score, and can rate or report one another — so the people you meet are real classmates with real reputations to keep.
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University-verified
Sign-in is gated to university email, so the community stays scoped to real, verified students on your campus.
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Reputation that matters
Trust scores and post-meetup ratings give everyone a reason to be a good neighbor, ride after ride and plan after plan.
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Reporting that works
Report anything that feels wrong. Reports are tracked through resolution and factor into a member's standing.
Want to learn more about Merge Campus?
We are happy to share more about the product, the team, and where we are headed next. Reach out and we will get back to you.