EmberWhere desire is a conversation.

Everyone in discovery is verified — a selfie and liveness check before a profile is ever visible, with an optional ID tier for a second badge. No unverified profile enters the deck, no exceptions. Verification photos are never shown on your profile; they exist to prove you’re a real adult, then they stay out of the way.

Seventeen gender identities and seventeen sexualities, all multi-select, plus self-describe fields reviewed by humans. Eight pronoun sets. Seeking filters that understand trans, non-binary, and queer realities instead of flattening them into “men and women.” If a word you need is missing, tell us — adding it is a config change, not a roadmap item.

Both, as first-class citizens. Come as a single, as a pair sharing one profile, as two linked profiles (“Partnered with @x,” visible only if you want it), or as a constellation. Filters work symmetrically: singles can seek couples, couples can seek singles, and everyone can say no politely.

Your desires, orientation, and identity live in a separately locked store with the strictest access rules we can write — never in analytics, never in logs, never in a push notification. Notifications are discreet by design (“You have a new note” — never a name or a desire on your lock screen). And two buttons exist from day one, each one screen deep: export everything, and delete everything. Both actually work.

Not if you choose otherwise. Ember ships with a discreet icon called UMBRA — a plain crescent that reads as a sleep app and renames Ember on your home screen. Add Face ID or a PIN lock, hide yourself from phone contacts, and browse invisibly with Incognito. Privacy here is a feature set, not a promise.

Browsing, matching, and replying are free. Membership is $14.99 a month — $9.99/mo for three months, $7.99/mo for a year — and includes seeing your admirers, Incognito, travel mode, unlimited filters, and 2 free Sparks daily. Sparks open new conversations: bundles of 5, 10, or 20 for $4.99, $8.99, $14.99. Unused Sparks never expire. Cancel in two taps from the You screen. That’s the entire price list.

Austin opens first, with New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in the first wave. Every other city unlocks at 500 founding members — the progress bars above are live counts, not theater. Join the list and you’ll get exactly one email when your city opens. Founding members keep a permanent badge in the app.

Report from any chat or profile in one tap. A human reads every report and you hear back within 24 hours — a real reply, not a ticket number. Reporting is anonymous, and the person you reported disappears from your view immediately. Bans come with a reason code you can read and a genuine appeal flow. “Pushy after a no” is a listed report category here, because it’s the one that matters most in this community.