A Christian dating app built for a marriage counselor. Members tell their faith story in their own words, read one profile at a time, show interest with a note about what stood out, and a conversation opens only when both people want it. Kay owns the room: reports, members and the name of the app itself are all in an admin console.
Real screens from the live app. The people shown are the sample members we seed for a new app, marked Sample. Swipe.
Dateship is live at its own address. Join with a phone number and a code, no password.
Open Dateship →Kay applied on 17 July 2026 from one of our ads, with a different idea. A few days later came a text: "I want to send you my briefs on the Apps. I am building 2." The brief that arrived on 26 July was for a Christian dating app, and Kay is a PhD, a licensed counselor and a SYMBIS facilitator, a premarital counseling program. That is the whole point of the app. It is dating with intention, toward marriage, from someone who does the counseling on the other side of it.
So it could not feel like the apps everyone already has. No swipe deck. No endless scroll. A profile you read one at a time, interest you explain, and a conversation that only opens when both people want it. Kay asked "Is the $25 a lifetime weekly payment? What is included?", got the answer, and on 29 July replied "Absolutely, yes." The first version was live the next day.
The ask: a dating app that feels like a well-made wedding invitation, not a slot machine.
One question per screen. Name, birthday with an 18 plus gate, who you are and who you are seeking, city, denomination, church life, your walk, your values, two prompts, what you are praying for, photos.
One card at a time. Filter by age, place, denomination and how involved someone is at church. Pass, or show interest with a note.
Interest both ways opens a private thread. Unmatch, report and block are right there, and a report brings the thread to Kay.
Open reports with the profile and conversation attached, member search, suspend and restore, members and matches this week, and the app's own name and tagline as a setting.
Kay had not chosen a name when we started. We did not wait. The app went live on 30 July as Covenant, a working name that lived in one settings row, so the front door, the app and every text message could be renamed in thirty seconds.
On 2 August the text came in: "Dateship is the name." It was on the app by midday. Dateship.com was taken, so we sent a shortlist of open addresses with an honest take on each. Kay picked DateshipApp.com on our recommendation, and the app was living at its own address by that afternoon.