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Camille, 29
A good Sunday
"The covered market, then a bookshop with nowhere to be. Coming home with far too many books."
App preview
Five conversations at a time, not a hundred. Not a feed to scroll. Étoffe is a dating app for people who would rather choose than choose quickly.
Hundreds of faces an evening, not one of them remembered. The gesture became so quick it stopped meaning anything — and you close the app having felt nothing at all.
This is what Étoffe will offer at launch. The screens below are previews of the interface, not real exchanges.
Photos, and above all written prompts — questions answered properly. That is where the difference lies between seeing someone and recognizing them.
You do not send a message into the void: you respond to a specific prompt. Whoever receives it knows straight away what caught your attention, and why.
Every profile goes through identity verification, and every photo through moderation before it appears. Blocking, reporting or deleting your account takes a few taps, with no obstacle course.
Étoffe has not opened yet. Rather than reviews from members we do not have, here is what you will be able to judge us on — and hold us to.
Sometime in 2026. We will not give a more precise date until we are sure of it — announcing a day and then pushing it back would be the first promise we broke.
Because past that, you stop really answering anyone. Browsing profiles is free; what is capped is the number of exchanges open at once, for everyone, subscribers included. End one and a place opens up.
Yes. Creating a profile, discovering people, sending likes and talking to your matches is free. Optional subscriptions will lift some limits, but never make receiving a reply conditional.
Through identity verification when the account is created, and moderation of every photo before it goes live. That is what lets us say there are no fake profiles: we could not create one without lying to our own system.
It is hosted in Europe and is neither sold nor shared. You can delete your account and the data attached to it from inside the app, without having to write to anyone.
Nothing. You receive a single message, on the day we open. Unsubscribing takes one click, and your address is used for nothing else.
Étoffe will open city by city, starting where the waiting list is longest — a dating app is only worth anything where there are people. Sign up: that is what decides the order.
Étoffe is not open to the public yet. Leave your address and we will write to you first — at our own pace, as it should be.
Étoffe is free to use, with optional subscriptions. Join the waiting list now and be among the first to create a profile the day we open.