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A social app for Dudes who like Dudes — gay, bi, curious, or allergic to labels. Every member is a real, verified human. Built by Theme Park AG, the team behind a gay community that's been running online since 2002! So yes, we're older than some of you.
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Every Dude here is real. Each one passed a live check, and a human reviewed his photo. You start with your mood: what you're up for tonight. Discover shows who's around, and what you have in common. Then you chat, one on one, with no AI in between. Made in Switzerland. Hosted in Europe. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Not every night is the same night. So on DudesChat you start with your mood. Pick what you're up for — chat, gaming, party, travel — add a line, tap Update mood. You're live on the Feed. Scroll the Feed: every card is a Dude saying what they're up for. Reply to one, and your chat starts right there, with their status on top. Change your mood once every 24 hours — as a Supporter, up to 10 times. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Out tonight? Tell the Dudes nearby. Pick Now on your Status page. Choose your area: 100 m, 500 m or 1 km — never your exact spot. Now is shown only in your region. It lasts an hour, two as a Supporter, then your mood before comes back. Done early? Tap End Now. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Nearby is easy. Common ground is better. Discover shows the Dudes around you, nearest first. Up to three icons say what you share: your type, your interests, your languages. Brown means a match, orange a strong one, and his profile shows why. Five buttons narrow it down: Online, Match, Dudes, Sort and Moods. Know exactly what you want? Search filters by age, distance, interests and more. Found one worth keeping? Put him on your DudesList, as a Hottie or a Buddy. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Show who you are. Share what you choose. Your public album is your face to the world, and a person reviews every photo. Private albums stay closed, adult content included. You unlock them for one Dude at a time. Tell Dudes what you're into: languages, hobbies, music, movies. Edit my profile, your albums and your shares all sit in the Menu. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Say it your way. Reply to his status, and the chat opens with it quoted on top. Then type, send a voice message or a quick video. Meeting up? Share an area, never your exact spot. No AI writes, suggests or pretends. Every chat is two real Dudes. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Your space. Your call. Every Dude passed a live age check, and a person reviews every profile photo. Viewing Preferences decide what you see on other profiles. Something wrong? Report it in two taps. A person reviews every report within 24 hours. A block hides your profile and photos from him, and he sees that he's blocked. He keeps the chat for 7 days, so he can still report it. As a Supporter, Stealth Mode hides that you're online. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Some nights are for going out. Out & About sits right on your Status page. Parties, culture and community near you, month by month. Tap an event for its dates, then open it on our partner's page. Going? Post it to your Feed, so other Dudes know where to find you. Out & About grows region by region, with local partners. Meet Dudes. Match Moods.
Verified · real humans only
The bots flooding the other apps don't get far here — being a real person is the price of entry. And no AI ever writes in your DMs: it handles the back-office grind, flags what needs a look, and every decision about a member is made by a human.
A live video check at sign-up — not a photo, not a vouch. It proves you're a real human, and the usual spoofing tricks get caught. We protect what it tells us, so you're verified without ever being the one exposed.
No farms. No throwaways. No fifty "Dudes" run off one laptop.
Get booted for being a scammer, spammer or catfisher and you lock the door, not just a profile — no new email, no fresh start. The deterrent that actually deters.
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.
Communities, not algorithms
Pick who you are and who you're into — bear, pup, geek, poly, whatever fits. The match score counts what you share, in both directions, out in the open. No black box quietly deciding you're a 6.
It's how DudesNude has matched Dudes for two decades. Not a feature we copied — a legacy we brought along.
The profile
Languages, hobbies, and a taste shelf — the music, games, movies, books, podcasts and TV you'd vouch for. Real picks with real covers, not a typed list nobody believes. Better openers than "stats?".
And when chips don't cut it: an About in your own words, your socials linked, health info you control. The whole you, one profile.
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 — CHAT, DATE, GAMING, TRAVEL, whatever tonight is — and it lands in the feed for the Dudes nearby. Less guessing, more saying it.
A status is a mood plus a line in your own words. When a Dude replies, the conversation opens with your status quoted — nobody starts from "hey".
Conversations
Type it, say it in a voice message, or show it in a quick video message. Every conversation is one-on-one, between two people, and no AI writes, suggests or poses as anyone in your DMs.
Ready to meet? Share where you are as an area, never a pin. He sees the circle, never the spot inside it.
Discover
A clean grid of Dudes near you, sorted by what you care about — match, distance, who just came online, or who viewed you. No "sponsored" Dudes jammed into the grid. Ever.
And everyone in that grid is a verified human — profiles only make the cut after the photo review. Browsing, minus the bot slalom.
Two doors
DudesChat comes out of 24 years of community, not a pitch deck. The same team runs both doors — two separate spaces, each complete on its own. Use one, the other, or both. And yes, we leave the back door jokes to you. more…
Since 2002
DudesNude opened in 2002 and never closed. It's a sex-positive community — nudity, cams, the works — where being open about what you want is the point, not a policy problem. It has outlived every trend that was supposed to kill it, because the people running it were members first.
The company behind it has changed over the years; the team and the community haven't. Today DudesNude is operated by Theme Park AG, and it isn't going anywhere.
The app
Plenty of Dudes want the community without the explicit side. Some always did; some want both, depending on the day. For years the answer was to squeeze everything into one platform and gate it with settings. We watched that make everyone slightly unhappy.
So DudesChat is its own app. Its own sign-up, its own rules, no porn anywhere, and no velvet rope leading next door. It is not a preview of DudesNude and not a funnel into it. If you never touch DudesNude in your life, DudesChat is complete without it.
Cover photo competition · the result
1,256 votes from 916 devices made the shortlist. We made the final call from the top of the vote, as the rules said we would. Five real Dudes, no models, and each of them wins a lifetime Founder membership.
You've met them already: they're the faces in our App Store screenshots, in the app on this page and on our help pages.
Your votes built the shortlist. The last word was ours, so it was never just a race for whoever had the most mates.
The entry with the most votes couldn't win: its photo was made with AI, and the rules ask for a real photo of yourself. No stock models, no AI Dudes.
Premium on the web, iPhone and Android for life, with no renewals and no charges, plus the Founder badge on their profile.
Premium
The same price in the App Store and on the web. It renews until you cancel, and you can cancel any time.
Monthly
CHF 19 a month
Renews every month
Quarterly
CHF 30 every 3 months
CHF 10 a month
Yearly
CHF 99 a year
CHF 8.25 a month
CHF 19, 30 or 99 in the App Store and on the web. Outside Switzerland you pay the local price the store or the web checkout shows.
In the App Store under your subscriptions, or on the web under Supporter → Manage Subscription. Premium runs to the end of what you paid for.
Your founding code still unlocks your premium: in DudesChat on the web or Android, under Menu → My Account → Redeem a founding code.
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.
BHOC highlighted a DudesChat feature that came out of its NiceAF research: a report stays possible for seven days after someone blocks you or deletes their account. Why a block should never decide whether harm can be reported.
Read →DudesChat is on Google Play from 12 October 2026: free, ad-free, every member a verified adult. Same login as the web app and the iPhone app.
Read →Faces are optional, but a face you see is real. Photos in a chat are taken live, never uploaded. Blocking never takes away your right to report. And where you are is an area, never a pin. Here's why we built it this way.
Read →FAQ
Short answers. The longer ones live in the Support center — or drop us a line via the contact form.
Dudes who like Dudes — gay, bi, curious, or allergic to labels. "Dude" was never a strict gender checkpoint: cis, non-binary, whatever you feel — if you move through the world as a Dude who's into Dudes, this is your place. And it's built for more than the next warm body: chats, meetups, nights out, friendships, the whole thing.
Both are run by the same team at Theme Park AG. DudesNude is the original community — sex-positive, running since 2002, for members who want that. DudesChat is a separate app — pants-on in public, no porn — with its own sign-up and its own rules; it's complete without DudesNude and doesn't lead you there. Use one, the other, or both. The full story →
Yes — if you want to find gay, bi and curious Dudes nearby and talk to them directly. The difference: every Dude is a verified human, profiles say who you are, and there are no ads and no sponsored profiles. See how DudesChat is different →
On the App Store since 30 September 2026 and on Google Play since 12 October 2026. The web app has been live since 30 July 2026, free, at app.dudes.chat. Same account, same profile everywhere.
Yes. Open DudesChat on the web, go to Supporter and pick a month, three months or a year, at the App Store's prices. Manage or cancel it on the web under Supporter → Manage Subscription.
Yes — free to download, free to use. Supporter is an optional extra for the power features, and it's what keeps the lights on. DudesChat is ad-free: no advertising, no data sale, members funding the thing they use. Supporter is CHF 19 a month, CHF 30 for three months or CHF 99 a year, in the App Store or on the web.
No — not in public and not in private, on iOS, Android and web alike. Public profiles show nothing explicit. Beyond that you choose what you see and who you connect with; nothing is shown to you unless you opt in.
