Belong Austria tracks your journey to citizenship
one requirement at a time.
Your tracker stays on the phone. No account, no tracking.
Android
The same tracker, the same 454 questions, the same Austrian rules.
Android
There is no account and no tracking in Belong Austria. Here is exactly what that means on each phone.
The iOS app keeps your tracker on your iPhone. There is no account to create and nothing you enter leaves the device. The documents you attach are encrypted by iOS while the phone is locked and are deliberately kept out of your iPhone backup, so they never reach another device. Belong Austria never uploads them and never sees them.
On AndroidThe Android app is being built to the same rule: your tracker stays on the phone, with no account and no tracking, and documents in the app's own private storage rather than anywhere we can reach. It is not on Google Play yet, so nothing here is live and no link claiming to be it is ours. The screenshots on this page are the same app shown in a Pixel's frame.
One tracker, and the same promise on either phone: what you type in stays where you typed it.
Belong Austria opens in Mediterranean, a warm light look with a coral accent. Prefer the original dark? Midnight is one tap away on 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 Austria lists the routes open to you: standard naturalisation after ten years under section 10 StbG, the six year route for strong integration (German at B2, or B1 plus three years of sustained voluntary work or of work in education, health or the social sector) and the six year route for the spouse of an Austrian citizen, which also asks for five years of marriage in a common household. Each route carries its own status. Austria decides citizenship through your provincial citizenship authority, in Vienna the MA 35, so your route reaches a real finish line.
What's coming sits just under that split: the dates ahead of you, soonest first. The day your residence time is complete, each year of residence as it lands, a document about to expire. Every date says whether it is yours or the authority's, and one that is only a projection says so. On either phone you can turn on alerts from the You tab and get a handful a year, with notice, never a feed.
The headline reads straight off the meter, so the words can never say more than the bar does, and when every requirement on your route is met the meter says so: your part is done. Standing sits on the Dashboard too, a card one tap from the meter it explains. Every tab is headed with the date the rules it uses apply from, September 2026.
What if sits on the Dashboard and answers that without touching your file. Flip German at B1 or the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung to passed, add a settled residence status or a marriage to an Austrian citizen, spend months abroad and watch your finish line move under the real Austrian 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 coral dot is in progress: ten years of lawful and uninterrupted residence with at least five of them settled, German at B1 shown by a certificate or the integration agreement's Module 2, the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung, a secure livelihood of your own without social assistance and an irreproachable record. Each item explains the rule in plain language and links to the official source, oesterreich.gv.at or the BMI's Mein Österreich portal.
The app is equally plain about the biggest decision of all: Austria generally does not allow dual citizenship. As a rule you must give up your previous nationality before Austrian citizenship is granted, with exceptions only where renunciation is impossible or unreasonable, and for a few special categories assessed individually. Belong Austria states this up front, because it is the one factor that changes whether the whole journey is worth it to you.
Every requirement can carry the evidence for it: a language certificate, a residence permit, a payslip, a test result. Note when a document expires and that date joins What's coming a month ahead, so a certificate never lapses quietly while you are waiting. Documents stay on the phone you added them on. On iPhone they are encrypted by iOS while it is locked; on Android they will sit in the app's own private storage. On both they are kept out of the backup, so a restored phone will not bring them back, and you should keep your own copy of anything hard to replace. Belong Austria never uploads them and never sees them.
Standing watches the moving ground, your time abroad and your record. Austrian law sets a real budget: up to 20 percent of your required period may be spent abroad, 730 days across ten years, before your uninterrupted residence is at risk, so Belong Austria counts every logged trip against it and tells you honestly how much room remains. Your record sits here too with a plain read on the irreproachable record requirement: no convictions and no pending criminal proceedings, and serious or repeated administrative offences can also bar you.
Standing lives on the Dashboard, one tap from the meter it explains: a card with your trip count opens the full view, with trips, offences and continuity all editable.
Practice trains you for the Staatsbürgerschaftsprüfung, the real citizenship knowledge test: 18 questions in 120 minutes, six on the democratic order, six on Austria's history and six on the history of your own Bundesland. You pass either with half the points in each of the three areas or with 12 of 18 overall, whichever you manage first. Your Landesregierung runs it and sets the dates, and the sitting itself is free.
The 454 practice questions sit in seventeen chapters, each showing how much you hold, so you drill the section costing you marks rather than the whole bank. They are in German, like the real test, with an English study translation one tap away, and the official BMI Mein Österreich material one tap further.
Mocks run at the real pace: 12 questions in 80 minutes, the two federal areas of the sitting, with the results broken down by chapter and a rematch of only what you missed. Put your sitting date in and the app counts down to it.
Today's five is about a minute a day: what you get wrong comes back sooner, what you know comes back later. Practice, Chapters, Progress and News share one tab, a segment apart.
News is getting a partner. A collaboration with The Local Austria is in the works: the immigration and citizenship news that actually affects your path, filtered to Austria, in plain language and delivered inside the app. Until it lands, the News segment says exactly that, and nothing pretends to be live before it is. News sits as one of the four segments alongside Practice, Chapters and Progress, so what changed is never more than a tap from the drilling.
Passport is the newest tab and the reason for all the rest: the document your road leads to. The real cover in colour with the facts that matter beside it: validity, fee, where to apply and dual citizenship. Every figure is taken from the issuing authority's own published pages, dated and linked to the source.
Add your name, and a photo, and the passport carries them as the holder's. A pill under the cover says when you could apply, at the earliest, from the same figures your Dashboard reads, and the tab tells you what makes this passport particular: Österreich in Braille on the cover, the flag that turns into the expiry date when you tilt the polycarbonate data page and a QR code you can check with the CHECK-AT app. Valid ten years for adults, 112 euros in 2026, applied for at any Passbehörde, your Bezirkshauptmannschaft or Magistrat, and as a rule Austria asks you to give up your previous nationality first.
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 an Austrian citizen, your citizenship background, the language exam, the knowledge test and self support. Change one and the Dashboard updates right away. Your name lives here too, and a photo of you, and the Passport tab carries them as the holder's; both stay on the phone. The appearance choice, Midnight or Mediterranean with one tap, sits below, and the legal disclaimer closes the tab, because Belong Austria tracks the rules but does not give legal advice.
