Nobody should be on door duty

Your buzzer only rings one phone. Let’s fix that.

BuzzMeBro gives your apartment its own number that rings everyone who lives there. Whoever is free answers and opens the door, wherever they are.

Get your BuzzMeBro number$11.99 a month for the whole apartment. Everyone is included.
How it works
  1. Someone buzzes your apartment
    A delivery, a friend, your mom.
  2. Everyone who lives there gets the call
    You add your roommates once. After that their phones ring like any other call.
  3. Whoever is free opens the door
    Answer and press 9, wherever you are. Nobody walks down to the lobby.

Sound familiar?

  1. 01
    Your food is in the lobby and your roommate is at work
    The buzzer only rings their phone, so your dinner sits downstairs getting cold.
  2. 02
    Your roommate goes away and you become the doorman
    Two weeks of walking down for every delivery, friend and plumber.
  3. 03
    The roommate chat is 40 messages of "buzz me up"
    Someone is always waiting on someone else to check their phone.
  4. 04
    You moved in and the buzzer still calls the old tenant
    A stranger has been turning your guests away for months.

It is all the same problem: one buzzer, one number, one phone. Put everyone who lives there on it and any of you can open the door.

Four fast and easy steps

  1. Get your number
    A real local number your building's buzzer can call.
  2. Checkout
    $11.99 for the apartment. Everyone in the unit included, no per-phone charges.
  3. Add your roommates
    Everyone who lives with you goes on the door, free, before the buzzer changes over.
  4. Swap the buzzer number
    We write the message. You send it to building management, your landlord, or whoever looks after the number. Some take it in their online portal.

Pricing

$11.99a month
per apartment

Or pay yearly for $9.08 a month and save 24%.

Get your BuzzMeBro number

One price for the whole place. Add your roommates, your partner, anyone else who lives there. They all get the call and nobody pays more.

  • Your own local number for the buzzer
  • Everyone you live with on the door, at no extra cost
  • A regular phone call when someone buzzes, with nothing to install
  • Talk to whoever is downstairs before you open
  • Ready-to-send messages for your building
  • Sign in any time with your number to change who it rings
  • Cancel any time. We hold your number for 15 days
Refer a friend

Give 3 months free, get 3 months free.

Send your code to a friend in any building. As soon as they make their first payment, both apartments stop paying for three months. That is $35.97 off for each of you, with no limit. Tell four friends and your year is free.

Get your BuzzMeBro numberFree months line up one after the other, so none go to waste.

Questions people ask

Will this work in my building?

If your buzzer calls a phone number, yes. That is almost every building in Canada. We check before you pay, and if there is no local number free in your area we tell you and charge you nothing. One heads up: most buildings open the door on 9, but some use a different number. The app always shows yours.

Do my roommates need to install anything?

No. The buzzer rings their normal phone, the same as any other call. They answer, press 9, and the door opens. There is nothing to download. Adding someone takes one text with a code, so we know the number is really theirs. After that their phone just rings. The app is for the housekeeping, like changing who is on the list or seeing who opened the door, and you never have to open it.

How many roommates can I add?

Up to four phones on one apartment, and nobody pays extra. Every phone on the list rings at the same time, and any of them can open the door. Bigger place? Tell us. We would rather hear it than have you guess.

What if nobody picks up?

Every phone in the unit rings at once, so someone usually gets it. If nobody does, everyone gets a text with a tap to call the visitor back.

Do I have to talk to my building?

Someone has to change the number your buzzer calls, and for most people that is building management. We write the message for you with your new number already in it, so there is nothing to fill in and nothing to get wrong. Most buildings do it in two to five business days, and your old buzzer keeps working the whole time.

I already have BuzzMeBro. How do I get back in?

Sign in with the phone number you signed up with. There is no password to forget — we text you a code. From there you can add or remove roommates, open the door from your phone, and change your plan or your card.

Roommate or referral, which one do I use?

It depends on whether they live with you. These are the two:

Add a roommate, freeThey join your buzzer number. Same apartment, same door, no extra cost.
Refer a friend, 3 free months eachThey get their own number for their apartment. Both apartments stop paying for three months after their first payment.
Can I cancel?

Any time. Service runs to the end of what you paid for, then we hold your number for 15 days while your building changes your buzzer to another number. We write that message too. Change your mind inside the window and you keep the same number, with nothing to reprogram.

Who can open my door?

Only a call from your building’s buzzer can open the door, so a stranger calling your number cannot open anything. Everyone you add is phone-verified before the buzzer will ring them, everyone is told when that list changes, and every open is logged with who pressed it.

Buzzer guides

Apartment buzzers, explained

How the panel in your lobby actually works, why it only ever rings one phone, and what your building will and will not change. Written for Toronto renters, roommates and condo owners.

All buzzer guides
Get your BuzzMeBro number$11.99 a month for the whole apartment. Cancel any time.