Quality over quantity
One person at a time, chosen with care, is worth more than a hundred profiles skimmed absent-mindedly.
Our manifesto
A matchmaking agency, in an app.
Putting the date back into dating
Dating apps have made it easier to start meeting people, and much harder to actually meet. We scroll through faces, keep alive conversations that fade away, and spend whole evenings without ever seeing each other.
Matchmaking agencies, on the other hand, have always known what matters: taking the time to get to know people, introducing one person at a time, and arranging the meeting. But they remain expensive, slow and available to only a few.
Aparté brings the two together: the standards of an agency and the ease of an app. An in-depth questionnaire, one person chosen for you each week, a first date arranged for you, and the conversation only afterwards, if you both want to see each other again.
We open city by city, so that every match is a fair one. And we would rather suggest no match at all than a date that isn’t worth your time.
What we believe
Four principles, no compromise.
Meet soon, and well
The real first exchange is the meeting itself. We arrange everything so that it happens, in a pleasant and safe setting.
Respect, without exception
Verified profiles, a kindness charter, reliability rewarded: everyone deserves to have their date show up.
Transparency
We explain how the algorithm chooses, and paying gives no advantage in the rankings.
Our method, in practice
It starts with a questionnaire modeled on a matchmaking agency’s: your values, lifestyle, plans, what you accept in a partner and what you won’t. Your dealbreakers are always respected, both ways.
Each week, the algorithm looks for the most compatible person in your area and introduces them with an affinity score and three concrete reasons. Then the app organizes the first date: each of you ranks three public places and gives your availability, and we pick the first common slot and a compromise venue.
Before meeting, you only exchange five questions picked from a question bank. Afterwards, each of you says privately whether you want to meet again. The conversation opens on a mutual yes, never before.
Why we start in Aix-Marseille
A fair match needs enough compatible people around you. Rather than opening everywhere at once, we are launching one area: Marseille, Aix-en-Provence and nearby towns, brought together so everyone has a real chance to meet someone within the distance they chose. Other cities will open one by one.
What we will never do
A dating app knows very personal things. We commit to never:
- sell your data or use it for advertising;
- let people pay to rank higher: paying gives no advantage in matching;
- show your sensitive answers to anyone or use them to explain a match: they are encrypted;
- display your exact location;
- keep you on the app longer than needed: our goal is for you to meet someone.
Get the app
Your next date may already be waiting.
Available on iPhone and Android. Answer the questionnaire and we take care of the rest.