Today
What is due right now, split into Needs Attention and Coming Up, plus the emergency numbers one tap away. Tasks show up in the order they can actually be done, so you are not chasing a form you cannot file yet. Tasks name the rule behind them.
WHAT BORIS IS 
What is Boris? A sponsor in your pocket.
Moving overseas means figuring out which office to contact, what paperwork to bring and what comes next. Boris organizes your KMC checklist around your status and household. This website also offers starting points for Germany, Italy and Japan; additional app destination access is being verified. Free, with no account and no login.
Live today for the KMC · Free to use · No account needed for the core app
- Boris asks about your status, branch and household, then builds a checklist that fits — not a generic list.
- One app for all three phases of your move: PCS In, Settled, PCS Out.
- No account, no email, no personal tracking. Your answers stay on your phone.
NO TWO LISTS ARE THE SAME
It asks first. Then it builds your list.
Boris asks about your status, branch and who is moving with you, including pets and vehicles. Those answers shape your tasks. Active duty, GS civilian, contractor and NAF paths have different paperwork and benefits, so Boris keeps their guidance separate.
01 / AD
Active duty
Your health cover, base legal help, and the offices to go to in the order you need them, not alphabetically. If your spouse or kids fly in later on their own orders, Boris runs that as its own list.
02 / GS
DoD GS civilian
Civilian housing and temporary-lodging steps stay separate from military ones. Boris helps you prepare questions and paperwork for your personnel office; your appointment and authorization determine which benefits apply.
03 / CT
Contractor
Your employer and contract shape your move. Boris gives you contractor-specific tasks and local guidance, with reminders to confirm status paperwork, relocation support and benefits with your employer.
04 / NAF
NAF employee
An overseas appointment and a local hire can lead to different steps. Boris keeps NAF guidance separate and points you back to your appointment paperwork and HRO for the benefits that apply to you.
ONE APP, THREE PHASES
PCS In. Settled. PCS Out.
You are in one of three. Boris shows that one and holds the other two back until you get there.
01
PCS In
From the day orders drop to your first month here. Getting ready to fly, the trip, and everything with a deadline once you land.
02
Settled
Living here. Where to go, how to save money, who speaks English.
03
PCS Out
Leaving. What to cancel, in what order, and the things people forget until it is too late.
CHECKLIST, DIRECTORY, WARNINGS, TEAM UP
What it does.
Your next tasks, local context and practical help stay together. Official guidance links to its source wherever possible.
Discover
Doctors, mechanics, tax preparers and schools in the KMC where somebody speaks English, plus local guides and events for your community. Boris checks its KMC directory listings again on a regular schedule instead of leaving them to go stale.
Tools
Key dates, a currency converter, lodging meal logs and a PCS budget tracker. Germany also has templates for cancelling a lease or contract before you leave. Availability and instructions follow your destination and status.
You
Your status and household, and Team Up: the same checklist shared between two phones, sealed between the two, so a spouse sees it too.
For Germany-specific examples, read the driving answer and the Anmeldung answer.
THE HONEST LIMITS
What Boris does not do.
Boris does not calculate your entitlements — your finance office does that, and their number is the one that counts. New app setup currently offers KMC. Checklist feeds for additional communities exist, but selectable destination access is being verified. Local directory availability and guide depth vary; check each destination page.
NO ACCOUNT, NO EMAIL, NO TRACKING
Your answers stay on your phone.
No account, no email, no login. Your status, your saved places and your checked-off tasks live on your phone. If you pair a partner's phone with Team Up, encrypted messages pass through a relay server so the other phone can receive them. See the privacy details for retention and limits. That costs you something: there is no restoring your progress on a new phone, because there is no consumer-account backup to restore from.
Every network call Boris makes is listed on the privacy architecture page. Read the promise in one line on the privacy page.
WHO MADE IT
A neighbor who does this for a living.
I have never done a PCS. I am not military, and I am not affiliated with the DoD. You should know that before you trust anything in here.
01 / FOUR YEARS
Watching families land
My wife Irina and I run a temporary-lodging house in Landstuhl called Mumo’s Inn, so most families we meet are three days off the plane holding a folder nobody explained to them. Four years of kitchen-table conversations became this app. I moved to Germany myself too — different rules, same feeling.
02 / DAY JOB
//KOCH.
My boutique studio in Landstuhl — advertising first, back in South America, then industrial visualization here in Europe: VR apps and touchscreens for trade shows, on projects for ZEISS, thyssenkrupp, ABB and Bizerba among them. The two jobs turned out to be the same one: take something complicated and get a person to understand it in about a minute.
Mumo’s Inn is listed in the Boris directory. On this website it’s labeled as run by the founder’s family — you should hear that from me rather than find it. Full legal details are in the Impressum.
Boris™ is free for military families, and the local businesses that support it help keep it that way.
FROM THE APP STORE
What families say after using it.
Quoted word for word. Not a syllable written here.
“…Boris was with us every step of the way and made it feel manageable.”
“…the restaurant/business recs are SOLID.”
“…it helps organize all the tasks you need to do. Once here, it provides lots of helpful info for day to day living.”
GET BORIS™
All of this, in your pocket.
Free on the App Store and on Google Play. For deep dives, see KMC guides; for quick, sourced answers, see Answers. Sponsoring a family? Send them this.
Boris™ is independently built and operated and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or funded by the U.S. Department of Defense or any government agency.
