Uneven — a dating app that is uneven on purpose

Uneven on purpose.

Every other dating app gives both sides the same profile and pretends that makes it fair. Uneven doesn't. Her side is the app you already know: photos up front, a few short facts. His side has no photos at all — a voice note and the words he wrote. She decides from what she reads and hears; he decides from what he sees. Two different games, one match — and the two sides are not on equal footing, which is the entire point.

Not on the stores yet. Neither listing is live — these are placeholders until they are.

How it works

Two sides, and they are not on equal footing.

The asymmetry isn't a gimmick bolted onto a normal app. It's the whole product. One side is the app you've used before; the other one isn't. Everything else — the deck, the chat, the match — is built around that gap.

Her side

The one you already know.

Her profile is the familiar dating-app profile: photos first, a name, and up to three short facts under them. No bio, no prompts, no badges, no clever one-liner she rewrote nine times. The photos do the heavy lifting; the facts are the caption.

  • Up to a handful of photos, screened before they go live.
  • Three fact chips, eighteen characters each — optional.
  • She swipes on what he wrote and recorded.

His side

The different one. Heard, not seen.

His profile is a voice note, an opener, prompt answers and the basics. No photographs anywhere — an animal avatar stands in. One honest take: no trimming, no filters.

  • A voice intro, 60 seconds maximum.
  • Every voice note ships with a transcript, so it reads as well as it plays.
  • He swipes on her photos.
  1. Build the side you're on

    She uploads photos and, if she feels like it, three short facts. He records sixty seconds and answers three prompts in 140 characters each. Both answer the same five dealbreakers.

  2. Swipe on different things

    Discovery is local — roughly a fifteen-kilometre box, worked out from an approximate area, never a pin on a map.

  3. He speaks first

    On a match, the thread opens waiting on him. Text or voice, his move. She never has to open with "hey".

Safety

Boring where it counts.

The mechanic is the fun part. Moderation is not supposed to be fun, and we haven't tried to make it so.

Every photo is screened

Photos are checked automatically the moment they're uploaded, before anyone else can see them. Anything flagged goes to a person, and the profile leaves discovery while it waits. Screening fails closed: an unscreened photo doesn't go live.

Reports get read by a human

Report is reachable in two taps from any profile or any thread. Every report is reviewed by a person — not a scoreboard, not an automatic strike system. You get told what happened, not a form letter.

A block that sticks

Blocking works in both directions and it is permanent. They don't appear in your deck, you don't appear in theirs, and they are never told. No unblock-by-accident, no re-appearing next Tuesday.

Uneven is for adults: you must be 18 or older to create an account. We do not run criminal background checks on anyone — read the safety disclaimer before you meet someone in person.

Fair was boring.

The apps are in review. When the listings go live they land right here.