Privacy-First LGBT+ Community App
Built for and by the community. No data selling. No compromise.
Privacy-First LGBT+ Community App
Built for and by the community. No data selling. No compromise.
It's not a safe time to be LGBT+. Authoritarian forces are trying to strip our rights away. The corporate world is quick to sell us out for a quick buck.
Current apps sell your data to governments and other bidders, outing you in the process. They train AI with your chats and re-opt you back in even after you opt out. Their platforms do nothing to build our community up.
PROUD is a privacy-first app built for fostering community, making relationships, and promoting activism and LGBT rights. Made for and by LGBT people.
We're not just a hookup app—we're a community app. Part of being in a community is relationships, organizing, and talking to each other. Friendships, love, sex, and activism are all part of our community.
Given the times we live in, we need to be more politically active and ready to stand up for our rights and the rights of our LGBTQ+ siblings.
If we can make the best connection app ever—with better user experience, better data protection, and better connections—AND expose people to activism tools, then we might have a chance of doing something amazing here.
Real screenshots from the app
Stay private with our subtle, minimalist design
Express yourself with vibrant pride colors
Go all out with our most expressive theme
Join vibrant LGBT+ communities and share your experiences
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Discover new friends and connections in your area
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Find people nearby with our interactive map feature
Choose the features you want. Opt out of what you don't need.
Connect with LGBT+ communities, share experiences, and build lasting friendships in safe, moderated spaces.
Find friends, romance, or casual connections. Filter by what you're looking for: platonic, romantic, or something in between.
Organize, mobilize, and stand up for our rights. Find local events, coordinate activism, and make your voice heard.
Find LGBT+ community events, meetups, parties, and gatherings near you. Connect with others and celebrate our vibrant community.
Messages are E2E encrypted. We can't see them even if we wanted to. Your conversations are yours alone.
Sign up without providing email or phone number. We don't need or want your personal data.
We pledge to NEVER sell your data. If forced by governments, we have essentially nothing identifiable to hand over.
Your chats will never be used to train AI. No data harvesting, no exceptions.
We make money through premium subscriptions with added features, not by exploiting your data or running intrusive ads.
The free experience will NOT be degraded to sell premium. Great experience for all, with a guarantee of no intrusive ads.
We will be selling premium subscriptions, and a lifetime premium pass. These will come with added features such as encrypted voice and video chat, boosts, more filters etc. The free experience will NOT be enshitified to sell premium accounts however and is still a great experience with a guarantee we will NEVER run any intrusive ads, pop up ads etc. The plan is to actually not run ads if at all possible, for free and premium users!
Messages will be end to end encrypted and are not kept, and we cannot see what is in them even if we wanted to. The data you share in the communities module in posts, and in the connections module on your profile are public by their very nature and persistent, which means for them to work they ARE stored on servers so they can be re accessed. We pledge to NEVER sell your data, and if forced by governments to hand over user data we will have essentially nothing to hand over identifiable, you don't even need an email or phone number to sign up!
I don't think of PROUD as a "hookup app", it's a community app. Part of being in a community is relationships, organizing, talking to each other, and yes friendships, love, and sex are part of that, and part of our community but we aren't just that. Given the times we live in, I feel very strongly we need to be more politically active, and to be ready to stand up for our rights and the rights of our LGBTQ+ siblings.
Almost every LGBT person I know has at some point downloaded a hookup app, and I don't know a lot of people who have downloaded a protest app. Those of us who can be out, and can make our voices heard need to be empowered to do so, and to be able to organize and fight for the ones of us who can't.
I think if we can make the best hookup app ever, better experience, better data and user protection, better connections, AND we can expose people continually to the protest app, then we might have a chance of doing something amazing here getting people tapped in politically.
Yes! You will be able to opt out of the individual(all) connections modules and the LGBT Events module.
This will make your profile no longer visible, or accessible in those modules. This may come with limitations regarding opting back in and out repeatedly. Opting out of a module will make the button for it on your home page go away.
No email required!
That's it! No data collection, no emails, no phone numbers, no tracking.
My biggest concern isn't, "can I make the best app for the LGBT community" it's, "when I make this app, if no one is on it, it won't matter because no one will stay."