Good to know.

Yes. Everyone gets 5 likes a day in Music and 5 in Books, plus one free flower every week, and chatting with your matches is always free. If you ever want a few more, small optional packs of extra likes and flowers will be available, at most two a week, because Stanzo is about effort, not endless swiping.

A dating app only works when there are people near you, so we’re opening one city at a time, starting with Pune. Not in Pune? You can still join: your profile is saved, you’re on the list for your city, and we’ll send you a notification the day Stanzo opens there.

Before your profile is shown to anyone, you take a quick selfie doing a pose we ask for, and a real person checks it against your photos. Only verified people appear in Discover. If you later add a new photo, we ask for a fresh selfie, so everyone stays who they say they are.

You choose. Photos can be visible to people in Discover, or kept private, even after you match, until you decide to share them with that one person. Your exact location is never shown: people see your area and a rough distance, and you can hide both so they only see your city.

Yes, at least one, and it has to pass our photo safety check before anyone sees it. You can have up to four. To change your only photo, add the new one first, then remove the old one.

Stanzo refreshes your approximate location when you open Discover, never in the background. Away for the weekend? You’ll see people where you are (or join that city’s waitlist), and Pune people won’t see you until you’re back. Your matches and chats carry on wherever you are.

Your account can be open on one device at a time. Logging in on a new phone logs you out of the old one, and notifications move with you. It keeps your chats private if a phone is lost or shared.

On Android, Stanzo can block screenshots and screen recording of chats and profiles, and check that your location is real. That protection matters for a dating app, so Stanzo lives on your phone, starting with Android. We’ll share news about iPhone when it’s ready.

18 or over. Your date of birth is checked when you sign up and again at selfie verification. Anyone who seems under 18 is paused straight away while we check.

We never sell your data and there are no ads. Your phone number, email and date of birth are never shown to anyone. You can delete your account any time from the app, and everything goes with it. Read our privacy policy or how to delete your account.

Stanzo is in a small Android beta in Pune. Send us the Gmail on your Android phone and we’ll add you to the testers. You’ll get a link to install Stanzo from the Play Store.