The anti-dating app that works like real life. No algorithms, no endless swiping, just one glance at a time.
Choose a local cafe (a zip code) and interact with potential dates that have already shown that they are willing to go there. Opening a 100 mile radious is great if you're OK with most of them not being willing to travel. But here it's local for once.
You're at a café and see someone interesting. You glance. If they're interested, they glance back. Glancing means you have a chair at their table, and they are sitting at yours.
If you like each other, you see the limited profile--physical attributes, occupation, kids, smoker--the thing's you'd see or learn while making small talk in real life, plus the private gallery of three pics.
If you both like what you see, you get a chat window to take it further and actually meet.
We don't store credit card info because we don't ask for it. You provide only the basics, keeping your personal data where it belongs—with you.
No "online now" pressure. No "last seen" anxiety. Everyone is treated as an equal, just like a chance encounter in real life.
Designed as a tool for your phone. Quick glances, real connections, and then getting back to living your actual life.
| Feature | Real Life | Only A Glance | Average App |
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| Matches are local neighbors | |||
| Designed for meeting offline |
Research shows many people, especially women, are looking for texting relationships, and never really want to meet. |
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| Personal information just what you can see and you tell them | Name, vitals, home location all revealed before they even swipe. | ||
| One image of you when you first meet |
Multiple images of you, your family available before you even swipe. |
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| Equal visibility |
Alogrythms are used to hide you and others, and then sell you ways to increase your visibility. |
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| Natural scarcity |
The false sense of choices, especially for woman who are hounded by men playing hunter/gather. |
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| Accountability of action |
You can like as many people as you want. There is no invesment. |
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| Distance is respected |
You can change your distance to absurd lengths due boredom and frustration, but you most likely won't meet anyone that way. |
Other dating sites are backwards. They reveal too much personal information before you even decide if you'd like someone. Real life beats all dating sites so why not use reality as a guide? Only a glance mimics the experience you have in meeting somebody at a café. You glance, they glance back, you chate, they sit down at your table and learn about them and you go from there.
Most apps are designed to keep you scrolling and clicking so they can show you more ads or sell you "boosts." OnlyAGlance is different. The goal here isn't to keep you on the app—it's to help you find a spark and get you off the app as quickly as possible.
We value your privacy. We don't use complex algorithms to "match" you based on data-mining. We simply provide the space for you to find someone who catches your eye, just like you would in a coffee shop or a bookstore.
MB
Founder, OnlyAGlance