Your table, your rules.
Host only your bridge club, or open your door to new faces of all ages: you choose who comes, when, and how many.
Nobody invites themselves to your home.
You never have to host strangers. A private sqwat can only be seen by the circles and friends you choose; a secret sqwat, by nobody: you send the invitations yourself.
- You accept each guest, one by one.
- Your address is only shown to accepted guests.
Your Sunday roast deserves more than two plates.
Fancy some company, someone to tell your stories to, a chance to share your recipe? Open your table to another generation: students, young parents and new neighbours come to taste, listen to your stories, and they clear the table. Everyone pays their share of the groceries.
Women only, or among seniors.
A public sqwat can be limited to women, to men, or to an age range. You meet new people, on your terms.
- Punctuality★★★★★5.0
- Atmosphere★★★★★4.9
- Manners★★★★★5.0
- Margaret D.★★★★★
A charming young woman, on time, and she helped clear the table. Come back whenever you like!
- Geoffrey V.★★★★★
Very polite, and a real history buff: we talked until midnight.
Punctual, polite, pleasant: it’s all noted.
After every meal, hosts rate their guests on punctuality, atmosphere and manners. Before accepting someone, you see their ratings and what other hosts have written.
500 g Strawberries
200 g Plain flour
100 g Cold butter, diced
4 Egg yolksShopping and cooking, made simple.
Sqwat works out the quantities for your table, sorts the list aisle by aisle, and guides you in the kitchen: the recipe step by step, what to prepare the day before, what to keep for the day itself.
Circles that suit you.
Your bridge club, your walking companions, your Thursday friends: host the people you know first, and open your door whenever you wish.
PrivateHarrogate Bridge ClubCards on Tuesday, dinner on Friday26 members
PublicThe Silver HikersA walk on Sunday, lunch on the way back48 members
SecretThursday ladiesTea, cake and news from the neighbourhood7 members
Everything, explained.
Do I have to host strangers?
Never. You can host only your circles and your friends, or send the invitations yourself. And in a public sqwat, every request waits for your approval.
May I come with my husband or wife?
Of course: add them to your request. The host sees you as a pair, and each of you pays for your place, or you treat them.
How much does it cost, and how is the price worked out?
The app is free. The host estimates the groceries, and Sqwat splits them across every place, the host’s own included: the host pays their share like everyone else. The price shown includes the Sqwat fee (5 % plus €0.99 per place). It’s set from the start and doesn’t change, even if some places stay empty. Your card is held when you ask for a place, and only charged if the host accepts you.
Max price or fixed price: what’s the difference?
With a max price, you pay at most the price shown: after the meal, the host enters what they really spent, and you get the difference back. With a fixed price, you pay the price shown, whatever the receipt says. And in a private or secret sqwat, the host can also cover everything: their guests pay nothing.
What the tax office says: does the host make money?
At home, it’s cost sharing: as long as the host eats with their guests and what they pay doesn’t exceed the real cost of the groceries, it isn’t income. Anything the host receives above that is taxable income they must declare. That’s why Sqwat works out the price from the groceries. For to-go sqwats, the rule is stricter: one to-go sqwat a week at most (beyond that, it becomes a catering business, with a professional kitchen and licences), and what the host receives is taxable, even if it only pays back the groceries.
Sqwat, for everyone.
The table is set.
Sqwat is opening step by step. Leave us your email to get your invitation.