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Launch · September 30, 2026 · Claudio
The app is out. What ships today, the cover winners, the founding tiers closing, and what a Swiss magazine made of it without our help.
Update, 12 October 2026: the Android app is on Google Play. Get it on Google Play →
Update, 1 October 2026: the launch-day numbers are in. Launch day in numbers →
The app is out. DudesChat is on the App Store today — free, ad-free, and every member a verified adult. If you pre-ordered, it is already on your phone.
The same DudesChat that has been running on the web since July: Discover, the Feed, Communities, and one-to-one messages with photos, voice and video — now with the things a phone simply does better. Android follows, and the web app keeps working everywhere.
Three days before launch we wrote to GAY.CH, the Swiss queer news site, because they had just been covering Grindr's cuts and price rises. Their piece went up the next morning, in their own words — including a headline we would not have written ourselves — and the part we care about came through intact: every member verifies with a live selfie video and an age estimate, and an identity document is only asked for when that estimate cannot confirm you are old enough.
«DATING: Eine neue Gay Dating-App will von Zürich aus die Welt erobern» — GAY.CH, 27 September 2026, in German.
They also wrote down the rest of it: no advertising, no sponsored profiles, nothing sold, servers in Europe, and the whole thing paid for by an optional subscription instead of by you.
The cover competition winners are announced today. Meet the five winners →
Backing the build has meant premium for less since May. Those tiers close with the launch — from tomorrow, premium is whatever the App Store sells. Last call.
Android follows. A German version of the site is in preparation. And the press kit now keeps a Coverage list — every piece written about DudesChat, as it appears.
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