The dating app that knows
you're a mess.
Gay-first. London-first. Hookups, situationships and the bit in between, minus the surveillance.
Sitches is not open yet and is not in the app stores. London comes first.
Built because the incumbent stopped trying.
Grindr packed its free tier with ads and bans people without telling them why. We built the app we wanted to open instead.
- Grindr on Trustpilot
- 1.1/ 5
- Ad trackers inside Sitches
- 0
Competitor figures checked August 2026.
Three surfaces. No theatre.
Radar
Who is near, right now, on a live hex map of your area. Swarm for density, Map for geography, Grid for browsing.
Your cell is a zone, never a pin.
People
Picks, search, and My People: the ones you actually see again. Regulars and situationships get product support here, not judgement.
Private notes, categories, and labels you both agree on.
Chat
Message anyone. No match gate, no "likes you" paywall, no fake waiting room. Stitch adds signal, never permission.
Photos and videos in chat are view-once by default.
You're never exposed alone.
Sensitive things on your profile are mutual by design. Your kinks, your status, your red flags: only people who share them can see them. Nobody gets to read you without being readable back.
- Public is on your profile for everyone.
- Shared is visible only to people who picked the same thing.
- Private never shows, and still helps matching behind the scenes.
Same mess. It matches. Everything you didn't both pick stays invisible.
Privacy you can check, not just read.
Trust claims are cheap. Ours are architecture.
A zone, not a point
For Radar, the server snaps your location to a hex roughly 200 metres wide before storing the Radar position. Radar raw GPS never comes back out of the API. Optional trusted-friend sharing and Scout use separate exact-coordinate records, as explained in our Privacy Policy.
Screenshots, watched
Screenshot protection runs across the whole app, not just private photos. Your profile is not raw material for someone's group chat.
No ethnicity filter
You can show your ethnicity. Nobody can filter by it. That is a design decision, and it is permanent.
No passwords
Sign in with an email magic link, Apple or Google. There is no password on file for anyone to leak, and no phone number required.
No marketing trackers
Marketing pages load no trackers, analytics or outside fonts. A trusted-friend share page embeds OpenStreetMap to show the location a sharer chose to share.
Gay men first. Not gay men only.
Sitches launches where the density is real: gay men in London. Everyone is welcome now, and dedicated community spaces open in deliberate waves, each with its own room, never bolted onto someone else's.
- Gay men live in London
- Lesbian next wave
- Trans planned
- Bi & curious planned
Fair questions.
Is Sitches live?
Not yet. Sitches is not open to the public and has no store listing. We grow city by city, London first, so the radar is dense where it counts.
What's the deal with photos?
Photo upload switches on together with our child-safety screening provider. Until then, profiles run on everything else. We would rather ship photo upload slightly late than ship it unscreened.
Why does joining cost 99p?
Because a payment gate is the best bot filter ever invented. It is once, it is less than a coffee, and it keeps the radar human.
Do you sell my data?
No. Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not "anonymised", not at all. The architecture keeps Radar positions coarse. Optional trusted-friend sharing and Scout use separate exact-coordinate records, as explained in our Privacy Policy.
Can anyone see where I am?
Radar never shows your exact position to other users: it uses a server-side hex zone roughly 200 metres wide and rough distance. A trusted-friend share you start can show your exact location to the person holding its link until the share ends.
I'm not a gay man. Can I use it?
Yes. Launch focus is gay men in London, and trans and curious users are welcome today. Dedicated community spaces for lesbian, trans, and bi users open in waves as density grows.