Frequently Asked Questions

Why use a dating app like Duolicious to start a relationship?

There’s plenty of dating apps out there: Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Boo, Hinge. We think they’re all great apps... For normies! But a terminally-online meme-enjoying degenerate like yourself needs something more. That’s why we invented Duolicious!

Duolicious is the dating app that helps you find your Discord-lurking, Reddit-updooting, Nigerian-basketweaving-forum-posting, chronically-online soulmate. Our fun personality quiz helps you meet like-minded people, and shows you a new match for every answer you give, thanks to our fancy matching algorithm.

Duolicious is also 100% free and volunteer-run. In fact, we’re the most popular donation-funded dating app in the world.

How does the Duolicious matching algorithm work?

Duolicious asks you a bunch of questions about your personality, political alignment, habits, and so on. Based on those answers, Duolicious simply matches you with people similar to you. If you’re curious to know more, we go in-depth in our blog article (including a bunch of math).

As well as matching by personality, Duolicious has Clubs to help you find people who have the same interests, or who are in the same communities.

Why does Duolicious match me with similar people? I thought opposites attract!

Opposites do attract in some sense—That’s called sexual dimorphism, and it refers to the observation that males and females tend to be different in height, weight, body proportions, and a bunch of other characteristics. But even among sexually dimorphic traits, people tend to date others who are similar to them—And that’s called assortative mating.

Our blog article has a neat example of this. It has a chart from a study of couples’ heights showing how people can be attracted to “opposite” and “similar” traits at the same time. Even though men in the study tended to be taller than the women they married, their heights were still more similar than if they partnered-up at random.

We’re often asked to include a way to search for people with specific personality traits because opposites attract, so hopefully this explanation has convinced you that you’ll get better matches just by letting the algorithm work its magic!

What are Duolicious clubs?

If you want to date people who share your interests, or date people from your communities, Duolicious clubs are the way. Current clubs include:

You can make your own clubs (e.g. for your Discord server, subreddit, college, or interest group) in the app, or here. Though you’ll need to sign up to see who’s in them.

Why is Duolicious telling me someone already used my intro?

Duolicious is a dating app where opening messages need to be one-of-a-kind! That means if anyone on Duolicious already started a conversation by using “hi”, then everyone who opens a conversation after that will have to pick a different intro. We think having totally unique openers is a fun way to encourage thoughtful messages that the person you’re messaging will love—And they’ll be more likely to reply to you too!

Messages after the first one in a conversation can be whatever you want.

Can I see who liked me on Duolicious?

Nope! Duolicious doesn’t even have likes! Instead, you introduce yourself by sending a message. Everyone can send and receive as many messages as they want, for free.

Why doesn’t Duolicious have likes?

Duolicious uses messages instead of “likes” because we want you to date people genuinely interested in you. Because sending a message is a tiny bit harder than sending a “like”, that makes it a lot more likely that the person messaging you is sincerely interested in dating you!

How many questions does Duolicious have?

Duolicious has a personality test containing 2005 questions. Even though our dating quiz is pretty in-depth, we made sure not to sacrifice fun, so we’ve got some good ones like this:

Surprisingly, even answers to silly questions like these correlate with answers to the serious ones, and give us an idea of your compatibility with other members. Check out our blog post where we did some stats to figure out which pairs of questions were most correlated. 🤓

I heard Duolicious was the “femcel dating app.” Does Duolicious only cater to certain political orientations?

Duolicious is for everyone! Duolicious has a quiz with thousands of questions designed to help you find people like you, no matter where you are on the political spectrum.

Because we want everybody on Duolicious to have a good time no matter who you are, we’ve got a set of Community Guidelines to explain the rules.

Is Duolicious safe?

We actively review reports to make sure everyone’s following our Community Guidelines. Be sure to check our Dating Safety Hints for more info on how to protect yourself when dating online.

Was Duolicious’ database leaked?

No, to the best of our knowledge the Duolicious database has never been leaked.

In some variants of this myth, Duolicious lost user passwords. However, Duolicious has never used passwords. We’ve only ever used one-time passcodes, which as far as we know, weren’t leaked either. In other variants of this myth, chat logs were leaked. However, we’re not aware of any credible reports of this happening.

This myth is largely based on a big scrape of Duolicious accounts which happened in May 2024. The scrape contained data that was accessible to anyone with a Duolicious account. (Members whose profiles were made private using Duolicious’ privacy settings would not have had their profiles included in the scrape.) While scraping other members’ profiles is against Duolicious’ Terms of Service, and it’s something we work against using a number of automated measures, it’s challenging even for the biggest social media companies to stop scrapers entirely. Here’s a TechCrunch article titled “Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments”.

Make sure to read our Safety Hints for advice on how to safeguard your privacy and stay safe when dating online.

Is Duolicious 18+?

Yes! Duolicious is strictly for individuals 18 and older. Additionally, this means no photos of children who are either on their own or unclothed, even if they’re old photos of yourself.

Is Duolicious good?

No, sorry.

What’s the gender ratio on Duolicious?

Right now the ratio of active men to women is loading.... The ratio can change a lot, depending on which online communities have been talking about Duolicious lately; The ratio’s previously been as high as about 20:1.

Currently loading... of active members identify as non-binary. Duolicious has the following non-binary gender options:

Why doesn’t Duolicious prune inactive profiles?

We do! We only show members who were online in the past 30 days.

If you’re one of those people who haven’t logged in within the past 30 days, you’ll get an email saying your profile’s been hidden. When you log back in, you’ll start appearing in people’s search results again.

We’re often asked this question by people who aren’t getting as many replies as they’d like. If you’re one of those people, photos help a lot. Even though adding photos to your profile is completely optional on Duolicious, the people who do, get a lot more replies. Getting your photos verified can help a lot too.

How do I verify my photos?

To verify your photos you need to upload pictures to your profile which include your face. Then you can run through the verification process in the app and your photos should be verified. If that doesn’t work, you can email us your verification selfie so we can verify you manually. Our email address is available in the app.

Does Duolicious have its own Discord server for dating?

Yes, Duolicious has its own Discord dating server. (We’ve put it on Disboard too.) Just like Duolicious, it’s completely free.

Can I use Duolicious on a desktop computer?

Of course! The Duolicious web app works on your desktop or laptop, and has all the same features as the mobile version except instant notifications. (You’ll get emails instead).

What platforms is Duolicious available on?

Duolicious is available via our web app, Google Play and the App Store.