Up to nine photos
Your first photo is your headline. Long-press to reorder, tap × to remove. Photos are scanned by Google Cloud Vision SafeSearch before they go live. Nudity, gore, or other banned content gets rejected automatically.
How Red Thread works
The community is the algorithm.
Most dating apps ask you to predict who you'd be great with. Red Thread asks the people around you. You wear two hats: you're a Dater being voted on, and you're a Judge voting on other people's pairs. When enough judges agree on a pair, both daters get notified and a chat opens.
Role 1
The Dater
Your profile is what the community reads when they vote on your pairs.
A match bio
A few sentences for daters reading your card. This is the text that future matches see when they tap into your profile.
A judge bio
A separate, private note for the judges who'll see your pairs. Think of it as a quick "here's what I actually want" that the community gets to read while voting. Daters don't see it.
Basics & preferences
Display name, date of birth, gender, gender preferences, and age range. The matching algorithm respects every one of these.
Open to matches toggle
Pause being paired any time. You stay visible as a judge, but the community stops voting on you as a dater until you're ready again.
Your stats
Times you've been paired, total matches, and your match rate live in Profile → Activity Stats. So do your judging numbers.
Role 2
The Judge
Every active user is also a judge. This is the engine.
Pairs, not profiles
The Judge feed shows you two profiles at a time, a candidate pair, connected by a literal red thread. You're not picking who you like; you're predicting whether the two of them would click.
Yes or no
Read both bios, both judge notes, both sets of photos. Vote yes if you'd bet on them, no if you wouldn't. That's it. Tap the photos to expand and read the full profile.
Judging accuracy
When pairs you voted yes on go on to match, and stay matched, your judging accuracy climbs. High accuracy judges get more weight as the community grows.
Skip without penalty
Don't know? Refresh and you'll get a different pair. The system doesn't punish you for not voting on a pair you're unsure about.
The match
When enough judges agree
A pair only becomes a match after community conviction passes the threshold and both daters opt in.
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1
Threshold reached
The pair accumulates enough yes votes from the community for the system to surface it.
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2
Both daters notified
You both see the match in your inbox with the community's vote attached. Nothing happens until you accept.
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Chat opens
When both of you accept, a private chat opens. From there it's a normal conversation. Your move.
Mutual by design. No one is ever forced into a
conversation. A judge's yes alone doesn't create a match.
Community conviction + your acceptance + their acceptance,
all three.
Transparency
Yes, other users see your profile.
The judge mechanic only works if other users can read your profile to vote on your pairs. So:
Your photos and your match bio are visible to other users, specifically to the judges who are voting on pairs that include you. This is core to how Red Thread works, and we want you to know it before you sign up.
- Your judge bio (the private note to the judges) is also visible to the judges by design; it's written for them.
- Your email, phone number, and exact location are not shared with other users. Location is rounded.
- You can pause matching any time from Edit Profile → Open to matches. While paused, you don't appear in new pair cards.
- You can delete your account entirely from Settings → Delete account, or from this site at /delete-account.
Safety, briefly
Block and report from anywhere
One tap on the safety menu (the three dots in the judge feed, chat header, or expanded profile) gives you Block and Report.
- Block hides them from your judge feed, removes mutual pair cards, and stops conversations. The blocked user is not told.
- Report covers inappropriate photos or messages, harassment, fake profiles, underage users, spam, or anything else. Reports are anonymous to the reported person and get reviewed by our team.
Read the full safety overview for everything we do on the moderation side, including how photos are scanned by Cloud Vision SafeSearch before they go live.
Ready to try it?
The closed beta is on Android first. Drop your email on the home page and we'll let you know the day Red Thread opens up.