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Dating App Development Agency
Profiles, matching, chat, and safety tools — a dating MVP you can actually put in the stores.
Dating apps are social products with a safety and review problem. App Store guidelines, photo moderation, and report/block are not optional extras if you want to stay listed.
We do not clone Tinder feature-for-feature. We ship a niche (faith, sport, city, intent) with profiles, a matching rule you can explain, and chat. Discovery algorithms wait until you have data.
Timeline: 3–5 weeksPrice: From $3,460Fixed price — no hourly billing
Why dating app development is easy to get wrong
Store rejection over user-generated photos and chat
Matching logic that is a coin flip with no niche
Chat without report/block — a liability
Empty-app problem: dating needs a launch city or community
What we build
Profiles
Photos, prompts, preferences. Image checks when in scope.
Matching
Swipe, like, or a scored match — one mechanic for v1.
Chat
Realtime 1:1 after a match. No global DMs on day one unless that is the product.
Safety
Block, report, and an admin queue. Age gates where required.
Typical features in v1
Niche positioning
We will push you to pick an audience. Generic dating is a graveyard.
Moderation path
Human review tools even if v1 volume is small.
Development process
1
Scoping call
30 minutes. We lock the v1 loop, platforms, and a fixed price.
2
Design sprint
Days 1–5. Core screens and data model. You approve before heavy build.
3
Build sprint
Days 6–18. Daily Slack updates. Scope cuts happen in the open.
4
Launch & handoff
QA, deploy or store submission, repo access, two weeks of fixes.
Recommended stack
- React Native — The dating client
- Supabase Realtime — Chat and presence
- Cloudinary or similar — Photo pipeline
What you get
- → iOS + Android app
- → Matching + profiles
- → Chat
- → Report/block + admin
- → Full source code
Relevant work — dating app development
Production products we shipped. Metrics come from those projects — we do not invent case studies for this page.
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FAQ
How much does it cost to build a dating app?
A niche dating MVP starts at $3,460. Video, live, and recommendation ML are not in that number.
Will Apple approve it?
If safety, privacy, and UGC rules are respected. We build the flows; you still own the legal content policy.
Do you guarantee users?
No. We build the product. Distribution is your job — we will tell you if the niche cannot seed.
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