Dattch
, a Brit dating app for lesbian, bisexual, and bi-curious women, has become available in the U.S. application shop. The app, built “for lesbians by lesbians,” does not attempt to imitate the feeling of Grindr, Tinder, or OkCupid. Alternatively, its creators desired to style a dating application that’s a lot better than the heterosexual and male-geared applications currently dominating the area. The outcome sounds like a dating app that’s better for

all

females.

“Dating is an extremely male-led space, and tech is a really male-led space. After two come together, it isn’t deliberate, it’s just inherent,” Dattch CEO and founder Robyn Exton told

The Telegraph.

Receive away from the common style of matchmaking apps and internet sites, the group researched editorial, trend, and travel websites to figure out exactly how females prefer to plan information. That created ditching the bien au courant hot-or-not swipe strategy and rather enabling customers generate a mood board of these soul. Instead of hard and stereotypical listings of interests (

You love meals?! Get

out!), customers create Pinterest-like panels that display their unique passions visually — just like the certain guide these include checking out, the ramen they just consumed, and/or that mid-century coffee table they truly are coveting — all of which present simpler entryway things into discussion beyond “good face, wanna hook up?”

Dattch in addition has done out with usernames, because no girl (or individual) need to have to prepare a date with  “Sweetteats69.” The female-friendly application additionally can make protection a priority, and employs a detailed confirmation process to get rid of creeps, trolls, and the perplexed men which hold joining.