Services · Mobile app development · Dating apps
We build matchmaking apps for Riyadh operators whose members want marriage, not casual chat. In a capital where many adults work long hours in Olaya, KAFD and the ministries, and many have moved from other regions, a well run app can do what a family network once did: introduce verified people with compatible goals, involve relatives at the right moment and keep everything private. Our Riyadh team plans and builds the member app, the matchmaker workspace and the moderation tools.
Your legal adviser decides what the platform may do. We translate that advice into product rules, and we decline work aimed at casual meetings, anonymous contact or anything that conflicts with Saudi law or store policy.
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Built for Riyadh members
Riyadh members tend to be specific about what they want: a partner with a similar education, a compatible view on work after marriage, agreement on where to live in the city or whether to return to a home region. They also tend to be short of time. The app has to respect both, by surfacing a few well chosen introductions rather than an endless feed, and by making each step from first message to family meeting feel deliberate.
The features below are the ones Riyadh operators ask about most. We usually build a first release around verification, structured profiles, scheduled introductions and moderation, then add matchmaker and family tools in the next phase. Every screen is designed Arabic first, with English for the professionals and residents who work in it daily.
Members set the evenings and weekend hours they are free, and the app releases suggested introductions and video call requests only inside those windows. Nobody receives a proposal during a working day at a ministry or a bank in KAFD, and reminders respect prayer times so calls are not booked across them.
Introductions arrive when members can give them attention.
Structured fields for degree, field of study, sector and work pattern, with optional verification of a graduation certificate. Members who studied at King Saud University, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University or abroad can say so, and filters let others prioritise what matters to them.
Members filter by the things they actually discuss first.
Registration requires a confirmed identity and adult age before a profile is visible. Nafath sign in can be used if your company gains access through the approved provider; until then, a document scan with selfie and liveness check does the job. Verified members carry a badge without exposing any identity details.
No unverified profile ever appears in search.
Many Riyadh members came to the capital for work. Profiles record home region, current district in broad terms and whether the member plans to stay in Riyadh after marriage, so a professional in the north of the city and one planning to move back to Qassim can see that difference early.
Fewer mismatches on where the couple would live.
In-app video calls that a member can open to a relative, with the relative joining from their own device. Calls are never recorded by the platform, and either side can end and report a call instantly. Video is only offered after both members accept an introduction.
First conversations happen with family present when wanted.
A web workspace for your matchmakers to review new members, propose introductions by hand, add private notes and follow each match to a family meeting or a polite close. Matchmakers see only what members have agreed to share with them.
Your matchmakers' judgement scales beyond their phone contacts.
Photos hidden by default, a choice of who may send the first message, and the option to route all contact through a relative or a matchmaker. These defaults are set with women members in user research rather than guessed by the design team.
Women control visibility from the first screen.
Reports, automated flags and failed verifications sorted by urgency, with Arabic and English review guidance, escalation for threats or fraud, and a full audit trail of who decided what and when. Reviewer workloads are visible to managers so no queue is left unattended over a long weekend.
Serious reports reach a reviewer first.
Store billing for digital features bought in the app, and mada and Apple Pay through a licensed gateway for web memberships or paid matchmaker packages, with ZATCA e-invoices issued for direct sales.
Payments that pass both store review and tax rules.
Each member sees what they consented to, can withdraw consent for optional processing, and can download or delete their data from settings. Behind the scenes, the admin keeps a dated consent record and a retention schedule agreed with your privacy adviser, so closed accounts and old reports are removed on time rather than forgotten in a database.
Privacy requests are handled in minutes, with evidence.
Who this is for
Riyadh concentrates government, finance and corporate headquarters, and with them a large population of working adults who have moved to the city. That shapes who builds matchmaking products here and what those products need. Four starting points come up again and again in our conversations with operators in the capital, and each needs a different first release. What they share is a demand for discretion: members in the capital often know each other through work, so privacy failures have real consequences.
Your matchmakers are trusted, but every introduction depends on calls and spreadsheets, and good candidates wait weeks. We build a workspace that holds verified profiles, suggests candidates for review and tracks each family conversation, plus a private member app for updates and responses. Your team keeps the final say on every introduction; the software removes the admin around it. Matchmakers in the office keep their existing relationships with families; the app simply gives them a better memory and a shared view of every candidate.
Start with the workspace, then the member app.
You want a modern, discreet product for graduates and professionals in their twenties and thirties working across the capital. We focus the first version on verified sign up, career and education fields, scheduled introductions and video with optional family presence, and we test it with a pilot group before a public store launch. Marketing to this audience must also follow your adviser's guidance, so we design store listings and onboarding copy that describe the service honestly and modestly.
A closed pilot catches problems before reviewers do.
Some organisations already have a trusted membership and want a respectful way to help members meet for marriage. We add an opt in matchmaking module to an existing app or build a separate one, with verification tied to your membership records and moderation rules your board signs off. Members who leave the organisation lose access automatically, which keeps the pool limited to people your community can vouch for.
Many companies place their headquarters in the capital and serve the whole Kingdom from it. We design the Riyadh launch with regional expansion in mind: moderator assignment by region, configurable matching distance and admin controls to open new cities without new code. That way the Riyadh release proves the safety model before the same code serves Jeddah, Dammam or smaller cities.
Ways to engage
Riyadh operators usually begin with a fixed price first release, scoped after the workshop and legal review, then move to a monthly retainer for moderation tooling, store policy updates and new features. A dedicated team suits operators with a longer national plan who want named designers and engineers working within their own sprints. Our people in Riyadh can attend planning sessions in person, with engineering support from Dubai and Karachi. Cost is driven by the verification method, matchmaker tooling, video features, the number of languages and how much of moderation is automated. Hosting, store fees and any identity verification charges are paid directly by you, so those running costs stay visible on your own accounts.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Custom dating app development for Riyadh clients uses Flutter or native mobile code, a web workspace for matchmakers and moderators, and hosting in Saudi cloud regions when your data obligations require it. Video runs on a managed real time service configured not to record.
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Yes, part of our team of 80+ is based in Riyadh.
Our people are spread across Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, and the Riyadh team can run workshops, research sessions and reviews with you face to face. Design and engineering continue across all three locations, so you get local contact without a small local bench limiting the build. Across our wider work we have delivered 200+ projects in the UAE and the US and hold a 4.7 rating from 23 Google reviews. Meetings can take place at your offices anywhere in the city.
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