A social app for Dudes who like Dudes — gay, bi, curious, or allergic to labels. Built by DudesNetwork, the same crew that's run the DudesNude community for 24 years — so yes, we're older than some of you.
The plan: everything good about the original. But pants stay on. At least online.
01 · Idea
DudesNude is the late‑night door — adults only, no pretense. DudesChat is the daylight door — same guys, same neighborhood, curtains open. And yes, we leave the back door jokes to you.
Built for Dudes into Dudes — gay, bi, curious, whatever the label. By people who've run this community for two decades, not a startup that discovered you exist last quarter. No rainbow filter slapped on for June — a place that actually knows what you came here for.
Profiles, chat, browse, meetups — all of it fine to open on a phone your mum might glance at. The body shots, the cam rooms, the spicier rest of it lives next door at DudesNude. We'll happily hold the door.
No ads. No data brokers. No mystery algorithm rationing out who you're "allowed" to see. You pay, so you're the customer — not the product being sold. Founder members lock in their price for life.
"Same Dudes.
Pants on."
02 · Features
Profiles, conversations, communities, location privacy baked in. The basics, done properly — and none of the slot-machine tricks that keep you swiping at 2am and somehow feeling worse about it.
Communities, not algorithms
Pick the communities you actually belong to — bear, otter, cub, daddy, jock, muscle, geek, whatever fits — and find Dudes who picked the same. Your match score is just how much you've got in common: no black-box algorithm quietly deciding you're a 6. You set what matters; the app does the math out in the open.
Conversations
Real-time messages, read receipts you can switch off (we won't tell), and voice notes for when typing is suddenly far too much effort. The one-tap "say hi" means no more staring at an empty box rehearsing your opener for nine minutes. No swiping, no streaks, no daily ration of strangers.
Location, done right
We blur your location before it ever leaves your phone — 100m in the city, 500m out in the sticks. Everyone sees distance; nobody sees coordinates. Your exact spot stays yours unless you choose to drop it into a single message — and even then it's one‑shot, not a permanent pin with your name on it.
Discover
A clean grid of Dudes near you, sorted by what you care about — distance, match, who just came online. Hide the faces you've already seen. Save the searches you keep running. No "sponsored" guys jammed into the grid. Ever.
New — the Feed
Discover shows you who's around. The Feed shows you what they're up for. Drop a quick status, tag it with a mood — DATE, NSA, EVENTS, whatever tonight is — and it lands in the feed for the guys nearby. Less guessing, more just saying it.
03 · Cover photo competition
That hero photo up top? It should be one of you. We're running a cover photo competition over on DudesNude — theme: "what community means to you." Submit a SFW shot, the community votes, the founder picks. Winner bags a lifetime Pioneer membership and their face on every phone that loads this page. Low stakes. Mild glory.
04 · Founder presale
Three tiers, presale only. Lock in your price now, grab launch‑day access, and help fund the build — no VC, no investors with opinions about your dating life. Payment processor's nearly sorted; drop your email and we'll ping you the second it opens.
Early bird
$59 /first year
50% off year one. Then standard pricing. Capped at 5,000 spots.
Founder
$99 /once
All features, every year, locked in. Capped at 1,000 spots. When they're gone, they're gone.
Pioneer
$449 /once
For the Dudes who want to actually shape the thing. Capped at 100 spots.
Presale funds the build. If we don't ship the iOS/Android app by Q4 2026, you can get a full refund — no questions, no forms, just an email. Theme Park AG, Switzerland.
05 · News
Build updates, design notes, the occasional thinking-out-loud post about why this app exists. No press releases, no growth-hacking, just the actual work.
Our community turned 24 this year — old enough to know better, too stubborn to quit. The world moved onto the phone, so we did too. Here's what we're making — and what we're flatly refusing to make.
Read →The face of the launch is one of you. Theme: "what community means to you." Three weeks of submissions, one week of community vote, founder picks the winner.
Read →The three-tier content model — SFW public, Adult opt-in, Explicit elsewhere — lets us ship on iOS without pretending the community isn't what it is.
Read →06 · FAQ
Short answers. If yours isn't here, write us at hi@dudes.chat.
DudesNude (since 2002) is the 18+ adult platform — nudity, cams, the works. DudesChat is the SFW mobile app — profiles, conversations, communities, no skin. Same independent team, same audience, different settings. You can use one, the other, or both.
Q4 2026 on iOS and Android, with a web companion alongside. Pioneer members get into the TestFlight beta sooner. The waitlist gets first dibs on launch day — and the button for that is, conveniently, right there.
Subscription-only — no ads, no data sale. Someone has to keep the lights on, and we'd rather it was you than an advertiser deciding who you get to see. Standard pricing lands around the $8/month mark. Founder and Pioneer tiers lock in lifetime access during presale.
No — DudesChat is its own app with its own sign-up. Already on DudesNude? Link the two and skip the email verification. If not, no one's checking what you get up to next door.
Location is rounded before it leaves your phone (100m city / 500m countryside). Coordinates are never sent to other users. Photos are stored on EU servers (Switzerland + France). We don't sell data. We don't have advertisers to sell it to.
On iOS — no. Apple's rules, and we'd quite like to stay in the App Store. On Android and the web, opt-in adult-tier content between consenting adults in private DMs is on the roadmap. The full hardcore archive stays exactly where it belongs: next door at DudesNude.
Theme Park AG, a Swiss company in Zurich. The team behind DudesNetwork — building this community since 2002. Independent. Member-funded. No outside investors.
On dudesnude.com/competition. You need a DudesNude account (free, 18+) so we can verify the submitter is real. SFW shots only — the winner appears on this page, so the rules match.