No app store wait. No download. No signup form. Open it and start.
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Open it
Tap once and it runs right in your browser. Nothing to download, no email, no password to invent.
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See your map
Your community appears on a real map of your city. Tap any pin to open a full profile.
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Reach out, free
Message, wave, or favorite without limits. Set a passkey with Face ID or your fingerprint to keep your account. Still no email.
Open in your browser right now. You can set up a passkey later.
See it in action
A closer look.
Real screens from the app. A live map, a photo grid, profiles with depth, and free messaging.
A real map of your cityBrowse who is nearbyProfiles with real depthMessage anyone, free
Why we exist
We built the app the others won't.
Other apps charge $20 a month for things that should be free, then sell your data on the side. Trick Dash works differently.
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Map first, not grid trapped
A real map with real pins. See your community laid out around you. Travel to any city before you fly there. Find LGBTQ+ venues with hours and directions.
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Private by default
No email. No phone number. Your location is fuzzed before it leaves your device. The good privacy controls are free, not locked behind a paid tier.
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Free where they charge
Unlimited messaging. Advanced filters. Read receipts. Private albums. Live translation. All free. No hostage situation.
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Shareable like Instagram
Your profile gets a real link. trickdash.com/@yourname or a short share code. Drop it in your Instagram bio, send it in a DM, print it on a card. No other dating app lets you do this.
Discover
Two ways to find your people.
A real map and a photo grid. Switch between them with one tap.
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Live Map
See your community on a real map of your city. Zoom into your block. Tap a pin, see a profile. LGBTQ+ venues show up too: bars, clubs, cafes, and community spaces, with hours and directions.
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Photo Grid
Big photo cells. Quick scan. Tap to open the full profile with photo carousel, bio, interests, and action buttons.
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2,400+ Curated Venues
A hand picked database of LGBTQ+ bars, clubs, cafes, bookstores, and community spaces across hundreds of cities worldwide. Yellow pins for venues, gold pins for sponsored partners.
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Search by Handle
Find people by their Instagram, X, Bluesky, or TikTok. Results never expose anyone's location on the map.
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City Dashboard
Tap a city, see who's online, who's visiting, and what events are happening. Plan a trip before you fly. Or just see what's moving where you live.
Connect
Every way to reach out.
Message, wave, favorite, share albums, link your partner. All free. All in real time.
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Chat that feels alive
Type and they see it. Send a photo. Share where you are. Take it back if you change your mind. No message limits, no upgrade walls.
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AI live translation (a first)
Land in São Paulo, Tokyo, or Tel Aviv and talk to locals from the very first message. Tap the globe on any message or profile. Live translation works across 20 languages and keeps tone, slang, and emoji intact. No other dating app has this. How translation works.
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GIFs and reactions
Full GIF library built into the chat. Long press any message to react with an emoji. Works everywhere in chat, no third party keyboard.
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Private albums you control
Share a private album in chat with the people you choose. You decide who sees it and you can take access back any time.
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Waves, favorites, matches
Wave to show interest. Favorite to keep track. When you both favorite each other, it's a match with a celebration animation.
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Events and groups
Find local LGBTQ+ events, RSVP, see who's going. Create or join groups for your scene with cover images and member lists.
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Flashes
Post photos that disappear in 24 hours. People can react without starting a conversation. Visible above your inbox.
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Partner linking
Link your profile to your partner's with a two way approval flow. Show up together for everyone to see.
Explore
Go anywhere. For free.
Browse profiles in any city before you arrive. Other apps charge $15 to $23 a month for this. We don't.
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Trip Planner
Tap a city and you're there. See who's around, plan ahead, roam virtually for up to 24 hours. Cities sorted by distance with live profile counts.
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Smart Radius
Whether you're in Manhattan or rural Vermont, we'll find your people. Search expands automatically until it finds someone near you.
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Share your profile (a first)
Your profile gets a real URL. Pick a custom @username (trickdash.com/@yourname) or use the short share code (trickdash.com/u/abc123). Drop it in your Instagram bio, your X profile, your link tree, an iMessage. It even unfurls a preview card. No other dating app does this.
Shareable
One link. Everywhere.
Your profile lives at trickdash.com/@yourname. Paste it in your bio or a message and it opens a card like this.
trickdash.com/@alex
A
Alex
Always up for an adventure.
trickdash.com
Open
Your Profile
Show exactly who you are.
Rich profiles with photos, interests, identity fields. No character limits. Built in crop tool.
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Interests and identity
38 interest pills (cycling, gaming, vinyl, drag, and more), identity tags, pronouns, gender, relationship status. Profiles feel complete, not like a form.
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Sexual health
Share your status if you want to. Stored encrypted on our end. Even we can't read it. A full database leak gives away nothing.
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Passkey login
Sign in with Face ID, Touch ID, or your fingerprint. No email, no password, no phone number. Sync across your devices automatically.
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20 languages
Every screen, every button, every label. From English and Spanish to Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and Vietnamese.
Privacy
We don't want your data. Seriously.
Other apps profit from your personal info. We built Trick Dash so a full database leak would give attackers almost nothing.
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Location stays fuzzy
Your exact GPS is never stored. Your position is offset before it touches our servers. Not even we know exactly where you are.
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Health data we can't read
HIV status and prevention preferences are encrypted before they hit the database. Even we can't read them back.
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No email stored
If you ever sign in with email, we store a one way hash, not your actual address. We literally cannot read it back.
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No birth date
We only store your age as a number, never your date of birth. Your birthday stays on your device.
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Messages on your timer
You choose how long messages stick around. From 1 to 14 days, then they're permanently gone. No backdoor copies.
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Delete in one tap
Export everything we have on you, or delete your account entirely. Real and immediate, not a 30 day hold.
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ID free age check
Where required by law, we verify your age with an anonymous selfie processed by Didit, or with Apple's built in age check. No ID upload. We never receive the biometric template. How age verification works.
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We catch the bad stuff first
Every photo runs through Sightengine, an automated moderation service, before it goes live. False reports can't get you banned. Real ones do. A human reviews edge cases. How moderation works.
Safety
Safety is not a premium feature.
The protections that keep you safe are on for everyone, free, from the very first tap.
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Verified, 18 and up
Age is verified at signup with an anonymous check. You control the adult content settings yourself.
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Every photo screened
Photos run through automated moderation before they go live. Real people review the edge cases.
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Zero tolerance for abuse
Intimate image abuse is reported to law enforcement. Repeat offenders are banned automatically.
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Safer travel
We block access in countries where being LGBTQ+ is dangerous, so you are never placed on the map where it is not safe to be.
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Rules in plain language
Community guidelines you can actually read in five minutes. No 40 page agreement written to bore you.
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Help when you need it
Report in two taps. Reports come back resolved, not lost in a queue, with a real person on the other end.
How we compare
Free shouldn't have an asterisk.
On most apps, privacy, visibility, filters, and the conveniences you actually use get carved into paid tiers. Trick Dash has no tiers. Every feature is free for everyone.
Trick Dash (free)
✓ Map, grid, and swipe discovery
✓ 2,400+ curated LGBTQ+ venues
✓ Advanced filters (Find)
✓ Trip Planner: browse any city
✓ Hide my location and distance
✓ Read receipts and typing indicators
✓ Unlimited messaging
✓ Photo, location, and album sharing
✓ GIFs and message reactions
✓ Private albums you control
✓ Flashes (24 hour stories)
✓ Events and groups
✓ AI live translation in 20 languages
✓ Partner linking
✓ Passkey login, no email needed
✓ Encrypted health data
✓ Cross device sync
Most other apps
✗ Often grid only
✗ Rarely curated, mostly user submitted
✗ Usually paid tier
✗ Usually paid tier
✗ Usually paid tier
✗ Usually paid tier
✗ Sometimes capped
✓ Yes, but ad supported
✗ Often missing or third party
✗ Usually paid tier
✗ Rarely available
✗ Basic or none
✗ Not available
✗ Not available
✗ Email or phone required
✗ Stored in plaintext
✗ Usually paid tier
The business model
How can it be free?
Fair question. Here is the honest answer, with no catch and no fine print.
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Built to run light
Trick Dash was engineered from the ground up to run lean, on a fraction of the infrastructure the big apps carry. It costs very little to operate, so we never have to squeeze you to keep the lights on.
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Local businesses, not data brokers
Our income comes from the venues and events stream. Bars, promoters, and businesses that serve our community can pay to boost their visibility on the map and in events. They reach you. You stay free.
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No ads. Anywhere.
No banners. No interstitial ads. Nothing that interrupts you, on any screen, anywhere in the app. The big apps sell your attention back to advertisers. We never will.
Who's behind it
Built independently. Not shareholders.
No ad network. No data brokerage. No growth hack quarterly review board. Trick Dash is built by Bunk Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation operating out of Toronto, for the community first.
