Launch day. In numbers.

Update, 12 October 2026: the Android app is on Google Play. Get it on Google Play →

DudesChat went live on the App Store on 30 September 2026. One day on, here are the numbers — counted on the morning of 1 October, straight from our own database. Counted, not estimated.

Launch day

• 893 Dudes signed up in a single day. In the two months before, 1,816 did.
• 689 of them were approved by the next morning. About 200 were not — more on that below.
• 825 verified Dudes are already on the iPhone app.
• 996 new conversations started — a first message between two Dudes who had never written to each other before.
• More than 1,000 Dudes were on the app that day.

Where things stand

• 2,778 sign-ups since the web app opened on 30 July.
• 1,959 verified members. This is the number that counts.
• About 800 sign-ups have not passed review.

That last number is the one most apps don't publish. A profile on DudesChat only goes live with a real photo of the Dude behind it and a completed 18+ check. About 800 sign-ups have not cleared that bar. Most of them can fix what is missing and try again — until then they are not shown in the app, and we don't count them as members.

So every profile you meet has at least one real photo and a verified adult behind it. No bots, no fakes, no AI posing as people.

Where the Dudes are

Sign-ups came from six continents: just over half from North America, about a third from Europe. The top five countries are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland.

Switzerland, in fifth place, is home turf. And on the day GAY.CH ran its story about us, sign-ups were five times a normal day.

No ads. No influencers.

We have not paid for a single sign-up. No ads, no sponsored posts, no influencers holding a phone up to the camera. The Dudes who are here came because we told the DudesNude community, because GAY.CH told Switzerland, and because Dudes told other Dudes.

That is slower than buying installs. It is also why the numbers above mean something: not one of them was bought.

What's next

Android follows. The numbers will keep moving, and the press kit carries the current ones.

Not on it yet? Get DudesChat on the App Store → Or create your profile on the web.

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