Our mission
Dating apps make money when you keep coming back. That single fact shapes everything about them: the endless grid, the boosts, the notifications that arrive exactly when you were about to put the phone down. Resonance is an attempt to build the opposite — an app whose success is you needing it less.
What that means in practice
Three conversations at a time, never more. No swiping and no photo grid, because a face is the least informative thing about a person and the hardest to look past. Personality, and what you write publicly, decide who you are shown. The face comes at the end, when both of you say yes — and if a conversation is going nowhere, it is meant to end, not to sit in a list for months.
It is deliberately a slow app. Checking in once a week is a normal way to use it, and the app is built so that this costs you nothing.
Five promises, and how each one is kept
Anyone can promise not to be creepy. These are the promises we make, each with the mechanism that makes it more than a sentence on a website.
Your private conversations stay private
What you write in a chat never influences who you are shown next — not the words, and not stand-ins for the words either.
A proposal to feed message length into the matching signal was rejected on exactly this ground. Only what you write publicly in Spaces can inform matching.
Money never buys you reach
Paid features change what you see about yourself — themes, insights, your own report. They never change where you appear in anyone else's suggestions.
Two automated tests enforce it. One of them reads the source code of every scoring function and fails the build if the word "entitlement" appears anywhere in it.
We only collect what we would show you
Everything stored about you is something you can see in your own profile or in your data export. No reading times, no read receipts, no measuring how long you look at anything.
Not behind an opt-in either. "It makes matches better" is the justification every surveillance-dating app uses, and it is not accepted here.
Being offline is not punished
A strong match who checks in weekly still beats a weak one who is online hourly. Inactivity is nudged gently, never penalised.
The audience is explicitly people who are not on their phone every day. An app that punishes that would be arguing with its own users.
The compatibility number means one thing
The percentage you see is a statement about fit between two people — nothing else. It never moves because someone paid, or because they were online more recently.
Ranking terms like availability and rotation change the order of your list only. Tests assert that the number shown to you is untouched by them.
How this is paid for
By people who subscribe, and by nothing else. There is no advertising, no data sale, no investor who will eventually need the numbers to go up. That is also why the paid features are the ones that cannot corrupt the product: if reach were purchasable, every promise on this page would be for sale with it.
Whatever the prices end up being, they will be round numbers. 4,99 is a small lie told to make a number look smaller than it is, and this is not an app that should be telling those.
What we are not trying to be
Not the biggest. Not the app you check five times a day. Not a place that measures you and sells the measurement. If it works, you will use it for a while, meet two or three people properly, and then not need it — and that is the intended ending, not a failure of retention.