Portland first · Beta testing starts fall 2026

You get in as someone’s guest.

Friends, dates, hookups and plans for tonight, on one living map. Come as someone’s guest. Find your own way into the city.

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Community resources are open to everyone.

A city of people, with room to get to know someone.

Less scrolling. More possibility.

Your kind of company.

Friends, dates or something more. Choose what you’re open to, at your own pace.

Meet the people

A city worth going out in.

Real Portland streets, familiar parks and a little inspiration for your next plan.

Explore the city

Room to choose.

Clear privacy controls, discreet ways to leave and no public popularity scores.

See the safety choices

Portland, together

A little closer to your people.

Find queer community resources, recovery groups, healthcare and mutual aid. Community listings are free and open to everyone.

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Three friends laughing together indoors.
Photo: Flávia / Pexels
Laurelhurst Park and its surrounding Portland streets on the charper map.

Every member is someone's guest.

There's no sign-up page. Someone who knows you vouches you in, and that thread of trust runs through the whole city. It's why the people here are people, and why it feels like a party you were glad to be invited to.

  • Five invites at a time.Every member has five invite links. Each works once and lapses after two weeks if nobody uses it, and an unused one comes back. A fake account can only get in on one of them, and it spends a real person's invite to do it.
  • Vouching has weight.If someone you vouched in is banned, you hear about it. If it becomes a pattern, your own invites pause: no new ones, and your open links stop working. So people vouch for people they know.
  • Quiet about who.Who vouched someone in shows only to the person who did and to their friends, so strangers can't map who invited whom.
A person's card on the charper map over the Jade District: Lena O., 49, 'Board games and bad puns.' Below: she/her, near Community Hall Annex, friends, vouched in by Ash, your friend. Buttons: Message, Wave, More.
You see who vouched Lena in, because Ash is your friend.

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One map. Every kind of night.

Most apps make you pick a lane, then a different app for the other lanes. On charper, what you're after is a layer on the same live map, for every queer gender from day one.

Pick what you're after; the map changes with you, and filters work both ways.
  • Friends

    Climbing partners, a sober coffee, someone else who just moved here. Profiles lead with what you share, not your stats.

  • Dates

    Slow or soon. Couples show up linked to each other, so everyone knows who they're talking to.

  • Hookups

    Discreet, direct, on your terms. Filters work both ways: if you filter someone out, you vanish for them too.

  • Open now

    "Open to meeting now" is a switch, not a fourth kind: it lights up whichever kinds you picked.

Portland, in miniature.

The map is your actual city, street by street and tree by tree: the firs on Mount Tabor, the pond in Laurelhurst, the bridges, the towers downtown. Here it is as a hand-made model in the late sun.

  • Downtown Portland's towers across the Willamette as a miniature in late sun, the bridges in front and the streets named.Streets Downtown from the east bank
  • Mount Tabor as a hand-made miniature in late sun: dark firs over the hill, two open reservoirs, and the streets beyond, with their names.Nature Mount Tabor
  • Laurelhurst Park as a miniature in late sun: the duck pond under big old trees, with the houses and streets around the park, named.Nature Laurelhurst Park
  • The US Bancorp Tower, Big Pink, as a miniature: a tall rose-coloured tower over Old Town's lower blocks.Landmark Big Pink
  • Hawthorne Boulevard as a miniature in late sun: a long main street of low shops under autumn street trees.Streets Hawthorne
  • The Willamette as a miniature, its bridges crossing one after another, downtown on the left bank and the river named.The river The Willamette and its bridges
  • Union Station as a miniature: the long station and its clock tower beside the rail yards.Landmark Union Station
  • Ladd's Addition from above as a miniature: diagonal streets meeting at round gardens among houses and autumn trees.Streets Ladd's Addition
  • Lone Fir Cemetery as a miniature: a square of old trees among the streets of Buckman, with the streets named.Nature Lone Fir Cemetery
  • The Oregon Convention Center as a miniature, its two glass spires catching the late sun.Landmark The Convention Center
  • The Steel Bridge as a miniature: its two lift towers over the Willamette.The river The Steel Bridge
  • Downtown at night on the charper map: lit windows and warm streetlamp light pooled along the streets.Night Downtown at night

Frames from the charper map with its street names; some rendered as a hand-made model in the late sun, with the streets, trees and water where the map has them.

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No streaks. No "who viewed you." charper wins when you leave the house.

"Their porch is the closest thing I have to church now. Bring a dish; leave with three."
How a friend's endorsement reads: Ayo, on Fetu & Malo's profile, one of the sample profiles · See them

charper. Say it out loud and you'll hear its neighbours: chirper, chopper, sharper, chipper, chortler, dapper, chomper. It's Polari for "to seek".

CHAR-per verb · Polari to seek.

Polari was the cant queer people in Britain used to talk safely in public. Charper was its word for seeking. So: bona to vada your dolly eek. Nice to see your pretty face.

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