Find your people.
Then keep finding them.
Plurel is a friendship app for queer adults. Five matches a day, real conversation prompts, and small rituals that turn strangers into the people who actually show up. Built with trans, nonbinary and gender-diverse people at the center, not as a footnote.
Matching, messaging and safety are free forever. Premium is personal tooling. It never buys you visibility, never bumps you up the deck.
Lisbon
Top values overlap: honesty, gentleness
Both prefer 1:1 over group hangs
Walks, second-hand bookstores, baking
"You both want friendships that get quieter and closer over time."
Inside the app
Four moving parts.
Nothing that scrolls you to death.
Plurel is not a feed. It is a small, well-lit room with a few doors. You walk in, you meet five people the app thinks you will actually like, you pick one card to do together, and you go live your life.
Onboarding that reads you like a person
Forty-four short questions across seven sections: identity, social style, values, friendship needs. Each one has a 'why we ask' note in plain English. Your answers feed the matching engine, not an ad profile.
Why we ask: matches built on what you do, not how you look.
Five matches a day. Same number for everyone.
The deck is rebuilt every 24 hours. Free or premium, you get the same number of suggestions, scored across seven areas of life. The bottom slot is reserved for someone a little outside your usual pattern, so the algorithm doesn't quietly turn into a mirror.
values · pace
walks · books
try something different
Eighty-plus activity cards, sorted by depth
Light cards for the first hello. Medium cards for the second coffee. Deep cards for when you both know it's becoming a real friendship. Ordered by social-penetration research, not vibes.
Trade three songs you put on when you cannot sleep.
Walk to the nearest body of water. No phones for an hour.
Say one thing you needed someone to say to you at 17.
Boundaries that work before the first message
Eight presets your matches see before they write to you: response time, dating chat, drinking, late-night DMs, more. Quiet hours and message caps included. None of it has to be explained, defended, or apologized for.
How the matching works
Seven dimensions. One score. Nothing about how you look.
Plurel ranks every possible match across seven areas of life and shows you the top five. Photos do not affect the score. Neither does gender, trans experience, or whether you pay. Some things are baseline. Some things stay private.
- >Top 85% of your deck: best fits, ordered by score.
- >Bottom 15%: intentional wildcards. People still compatible with you, just outside your usual pattern.
- >The deck rebuilds every 24 hours, so the room keeps breathing.
- Shared values25%
- Shared interests20%
- Pace & communication15%
- Social energy15%
- Schedule10%
- Logistics10%
- Friendship intent5%
Schedule and logistics are collected and shown on profiles, but not yet wired into scoring. Coming on, transparently, when they are.
Free forever, by design
We will not charge you to be seen.
Loneliness is already a market. Connection is not for sale here. Everything that affects who you meet is free, for everyone, for good. Premium is personal tooling for people who want a bit more control over their own experience.
Everything that affects who you meet
- Five matches a day
- Messaging with everyone you match with
- All eighty-plus activity cards
- Boundaries, blocking, reporting, moderation
- Quiet hours and message caps
- Trans-inclusive identity fields
Personal tooling. Not visibility.
- Photo blur and after-match reveal
- Travel mode for meeting people in other cities
- Friendship streak and stage tracking
- More insight over your own experience
Premium never changes who you see, what they see of you, or your score.
From the manifesto
The family we choose is often the one that keeps us alive. Plurel is built so that family is easier to find, in cities that have gotten quieter for queer people, fast.
Honest questions
What people actually want to know.
- Is this a dating app?
- No. Plurel is for friendship only. There is a boundary preset called "Not here to date" that your matches see before the first message. People sometimes fall in love through their friends. That is not what we are building software for.
- I am newly out. Am I going to feel out of place?
- No. About a third of people we have spoken with came out in the last two years. The onboarding does not ask you to perform a community CV. You answer what you want to answer.
- I am trans. Is this going to feel like every other "inclusive" app?
- It should not. Pronouns and trans experience are first-class profile fields, not free-text afterthoughts. They are never used as a matching variable, never shared without your control, and never visible to people who have not matched with you. Anti-trans behavior gets you removed, not a warning.
- Are allies welcome?
- Cis-straight allies who want to be real friends to queer people: yes. Tourists, voyeurs, savior types: no. We moderate for the difference.
- How is this not going to become Instagram for friends?
- There is no feed. No follower count. No streaks you lose. No public profile that strangers can scroll. Five suggestions, in private, then it is up to you.
- Why a waitlist? Why not just open it?
- We open city by city so each new person walks into a room that already has a few people in it. Empty social apps feel like empty restaurants. We would rather wait than fake the room.
Waitlist
Save your spot. We will open the door when the room is ready.
We open city by city, in small batches, so connections have room to form. Leave your email and we will tell you when your city is next. No newsletter. No growth machine. One note, when it is your turn.