Meeting-first dating
Don’t wait for love — date today
Real dates with people you mutually match with — plan it, meet in person, and skip the endless chatting.
- Free to join
- Real people
- No endless chat
How it works
A warm, human way to meet
Create your date
Invite someone to a real time and place — coffee, a walk, dinner. Say what you’re looking for.
We invite a few people you fit with
We invite a handful of people to your date from the ones you mutually match with. Every invitation is personal: your invite never sits in a big list — the people we invite get a notification, and it shows only on their own screen.
See who accepts
Sit back while the people who accept your invitation come in.
Choose who you’d love to meet
Look through the people who accepted and pick the one that feels right. The moment you do, a chat opens just for this date, where the two of you can settle the details.
Your date is set
All that’s left is to enjoy each other’s company on the date.
Who could I date?
Check how many possible partners signed up already
Tell us who you are and who you would like to meet. We will show you how many people on the waiting list fit.
Join the list, and get early bird rewards.
Why meeting-first
How we address the most common online dating issues
Dating apps are built to keep you matching, chatting and coming back. What most people actually want is simpler: to sit across from someone worth meeting, this week. Here is what we do differently.
The old way
Hours of swiping, barely a date
The feed never ends and the calendar stays empty.
On Yambrella
There is nothing to swipe through. You get a limited number of invites from people you have already mutually matched with — so what you look through is the dates you were invited to, not profiles.
The old way
Ghosting and matches that go nowhere
Threads go quiet and you never learn where you stood.
On Yambrella
After every date, both of you have to say whether you want to carry on. Nobody can arrange their next date until they have, and a reminder follows whoever forgets — so you get an answer instead of silence.
The old way
Stale, long-abandoned profiles
Photos from another life, accounts nobody has opened in months.
On Yambrella
Go quiet for two weeks and your account stops receiving invites until you log in again — and the moment you do, you are back in the pool. The people you see are people who are still actually here.
The old way
Fake profiles and borrowed photos
The person in the pictures and the person who turns up are not the same.
On Yambrella
There is little point faking anything here. Nobody can date without a photo on their profile, and the first real interaction is meeting face to face — so whatever does not add up shows immediately.
The old way
Drowning in messages
An inbox full of openers from people you never agreed to talk to.
On Yambrella
You only chat with someone once you have a date together, and the thread is there to sort the details. It closes the day after you meet — and if you want to see them again, you send them a new invite straight from that date.
The old way
Hearing nothing
You send and send, and weeks go by with no reply at all.
On Yambrella
Every invitation you accept ends with an answer. Either the host chooses you, or you are told the invitation closed — either way you know where you stand, without having to keep checking.
Less swiping, less pointless chat, more real dates.
And the memberships below stay just as plain: they only set how much you can have running.
Membership
Choose how you date
Each membership simply sets what your account can do — how many dates you can have running and how far each one travels. There is no purchase here yet: every account starts free, and higher packages are granted — by us, or by referring someone.
Free
Everything you need to plan a real date.
- 2 active invites
- 2 acceptances per invite
- Reach up to 10 people
- See up to 5 invites
- No Last Minutes Boosts
Plus
More dates in the air, seen by more people.
- 5 active invites
- 5 acceptances per invite
- Reach up to 20 people
- See up to 10 invites
- 5 Last Minutes Boosts / month
Last Minutes Boost is an option when you create a date: in the last hour before it starts, if the date is not full yet — fewer people have accepted than it has seats — we send it out again to a new group and it can show in the Boosted row.
Premium
Maximum reach and room when things get busy.
- 10 active invites
- 10 acceptances per invite
- Reach up to 50 people
- See up to 25 invites
- 10 Last Minutes Boosts / month
- Accept even when an invite is full
- Your invites can appear beyond someone’s usual list length
Last Minutes Boost is an option when you create a date: in the last hour before it starts, if the date is not full yet — fewer people have accepted than it has seats — we send it out again to a new group and it can show in the Boosted row.
No commitment · Change your plan anytime · Every account starts free
Yambrella has not opened yet — join the waiting list, and your free months of Plus will be waiting when it does.