Safety

Safety is the product, not the fine print.

Safety isn't a premium tier on charper. It's the whole product, and it's free for everyone, forever.

A quiet block on the map: too few people for anyone there to show, so no faces, only 'a few around'. — Fewer people on a block than they asked for: no faces, no names, no count. Just 'a few around'.

What keeps you safe

You choose your crowd.

You choose how many people must share your spot before your face shows: just you unless you ask for more: two, three, or five if you want a proper crowd. Below your number you're part of "a few around": no face, no name, no count. Your choice never makes anyone else more visible: where people's numbers differ, the biggest one applies to the whole spot.

Nobody sees where you actually are.

Your location is rounded on your phone, then blurred to a cell a few blocks wide, differently for each person looking, so nobody can compare notes to find you. No travel mode: you appear where you are, blurred, or not at all.

Invite-only, and quiet about it.

New members join through someone's invite link. Who vouched someone in shows only to the person who did and to their friends, so strangers can't map who invited whom. Block is a step away on every card and in every chat.

No ID. No phone number.

Sign in with a passkey, Google or email, keep printable backup codes, and use any name you like. charper never asks for a phone number. A face scan on your phone checks your age and keeps only a yes. Photos verified is a separate, optional scan: if you turn it on, charper keeps a face template (numbers, not a picture) until you remove the badge. Nothing is computed for anyone else's face in your photos.

After you meet, a quiet word.

"Matched their photos?" "Felt safe?" Optional, private, and seen only by safety. Never shown on anyone's profile.

"I'm worried about them."

A separate way to look out for someone. They get an anonymous card of support resources, never a "you were reported".

No surprise nudes.

Explicit images from people you haven't matched with arrive blurred. Tap to see, or don't.

Leave in a hurry. Stay discreet.

One gesture swaps to a neutral page. Install it under a name and icon you choose. Notifications say "1 new" and nothing more.

Safety is never for sale.

Seeing people, messaging, filters, blocking, reporting and incognito are free forever. The one paywall is for people who host events.

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Your messages are yours. Not ours.

End-to-end encrypted, one to one.Our servers hold scrambled text they can't read.
Report only what you choose.That message and the four before it, sent with your consent, and sealed so nothing can be cherry-picked.
Plain about the rest.Group and event chats are visible to charper so they can be moderated, and the app says so.

Promises, with the receipts.

Every dating app says it cares about you. The complaints say otherwise, and they're remarkably consistent: bots and scams, safety behind a paywall, dead feeds, location leaks. charper is designed against each one, and we'd rather show you how than ask you to trust us.

TopicMost appscharper

Who's on itAnyone who can make an account.You get in by a member's invite link; each member has five at a time, each good once. A fake account costs someone a real invite.

When someone's awfulBanned accounts can sign up again.If people you vouched for keep getting banned, your invites are paused, so people vouch with care.

Signing upMany want your phone number.charper never asks for a phone number. Passkeys, Google or email, printable backup codes, any name you like.

Where you areIn 2024, researchers pinned users of six apps to about 2 metres from distance alone. Those apps have since fixed it.¹Your face shows only where as many people share your spot as you chose: just you, unless you ask for more. Your location is blurred to a few blocks on your phone, and there's no travel mode.

Your messagesVaries by app.One-to-one messages are end-to-end encrypted. A report shares that message and the four before it, only when you send it.

Safety toolsSome are paid extras. Grindr's Incognito is part of its paid tier.²Blocking, filters, reporting and incognito, free forever. Hosts are the only paid tier.

Your attentionStreaks, "who viewed you", nudges to come back.None of it. charper works when you put the phone down and go out.

What each one is for

SniffiesA live map, for gay, bi and curious men.³
Bumble BFFFriends, in its own separate app.⁴
charper Friends, dates, hookups and plans, on one live map, for every queer gender.

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Sources

KU Leuven researchers, "Swipe Left for Identity Theft" (2024): six of fifteen location-based dating apps, including Bumble, Grindr and Hinge, let an attacker trilaterate users to about 2 metres. The apps they contacted have since changed how distance works. TechCrunch report
Grindr Help Center: Incognito is a Grindr Unlimited feature. help.grindr.com
Sniffies describes itself as a map-based cruising app for gay, bi and curious guys. Wikipedia: Sniffies
Bumble moved BFF into its own app, separate from Bumble dating. Android Central