Belong Germany helps you track your journey from residence to German citizenship.
Belong Germany tracks how far you are from German citizenship. It is honest about the part you control and the part you do not. Below is what each tab does.
Choose the classic Midnight dark look or the new Mediterranean light theme with a warm coral accent. Switch any time from the You tab. Everything else stays exactly the same.
The Dashboard splits the journey into the part you control and the part you do not. The bar shows how close you are, and below it Belong Germany lists the routes open to you: the uniform five year route and the three year route for the spouse of a German citizen, each carrying its own status. Germany decides naturalisation administratively through your local Einbürgerungsbehörde, so your route reaches a real finish line.
What if sits on the Dashboard and answers that without touching your file. Flip B1 German or the Einbürgerungstest to passed, add a marriage to a German citizen, spend six months abroad, and watch your finish line move under the real German rules. It runs on a copy of your situation, so nothing you try is saved and nothing you entered changes.
Path opens your route and lays out every requirement in order. A green tick is met and a blue dot is in progress: lawful ordinary residence, a settled residence status, German at B1, the Einbürgerungstest, self-support and a clean record. Each item explains the rule in plain language and links to the official source, the BAMF. The test facts sit here too, and the full Practice tab is one tap away.
Standing watches the moving ground, your time abroad and your record. Under German law a single stay abroad of up to six months does not interrupt your residence, so Belong Germany measures your longest stay against the six month line and tells you honestly when a trip could break your continuity. Your record sits here too with a plain read: minor penalties up to 90 day-fines are generally disregarded.
Practice trains you for the Einbürgerungstest, the real naturalisation knowledge test. Full mock tests in the official shape, 33 questions and 17 to pass, quick rounds, chapter drills across politics and democracy, history and responsibility, and people and society, and a mistakes deck that re-asks what you got wrong. In German, like the real test, with an English study toggle — and the official BAMF test centre one tap away.
News is getting a partner. A collaboration with The Local Germany is in the works: the immigration and citizenship news that actually affects your path, filtered to Germany, in plain language and delivered inside the app. Until it lands, the News tab says exactly that — and nothing pretends to be live before it is.
You is where every number comes from. Set the month you became resident and a short list of honest toggles: your settled residence status, marriage to a German citizen, your citizenship background, the language exam, the knowledge test and self-support. Change one and the Dashboard updates right away. The appearance choice lives here too, Midnight or Mediterranean with one tap, and so does the legal disclaimer, because Belong Germany tracks the rules but does not give legal advice.
A Belong Germany account arrives in Q3 2026, together with the web app: sign in with your email and use the same subscription in any browser. On your iPhone the tracker stays on your device. What you enter on the web will be stored on our servers, so it is waiting at your next sign-in.