Build a Dating App
— Connections Made Natively

Describe it in Fastshot: profiles with photos, swipe or like/pass matching, chat after a mutual match, location-based discovery, a subscription. The AI generates the React Native app with a Supabase backend — database, auth, photo storage, real-time chat. Preview it on your phone, refine in chat, then build for the App Store and Google Play. No code written.

Building and testing, yes: in Fastshot, describing the dating app and running it on your phone via Expo Go is free, which is enough to validate the concept with real users. Publishing is where the fixed costs live — Apple's $99/year and Google's $25 developer accounts, plus cloud store builds and code export in paid plans.

Yes. Fastshot's AI generates the full feature set — profile builder, discovery feed, matching logic, in-app messaging, filters, block and report — from a plain-English description, and iterates when you ask for changes: 'add photo verification', 'make matching questionnaire-based'. The output is real React Native code you own.

Yes. Fastshot runs entirely in the browser and compiles a signed APK or AAB in the cloud — the APK for installing directly on phones during testing, the AAB for Google Play — with no Android Studio on your machine. The same project also builds the iOS app. See the APK builder page for the Android specifics.

An agency typically quotes $40,000-150,000 for a first version. With Fastshot, development costs a subscription and a few days of iteration. What stays: $99/year for Apple, $25 for Google, database hosting, moderation and — the largest line by far — user acquisition. That is why validating a niche with a cheap prototype first is the right order.

Profiles with photos and moderation, matching or swipes, chat, location and search filters. Separately: report, block and content removal, which Apple and Google require in any app where strangers talk. Photo or phone verification is optional but sharply reduces fake profiles, the main cause of churn. Fastshot generates all of these screens from the description.

Subscriptions dominate — advanced filters, seeing who liked you, unlimited swipes — usually combined with one-off purchases like profile boosts and super likes. Fastshot wires subscriptions and purchases through Expo's in-app purchase modules; all of them run through Apple and Google, which take 15-30%, so build that into the model from day one.

Any app with user-generated content must let people report, block and remove content — Apple's Guideline 1.2 and Google Play's UGC policy — and dating apps get reviewed closely on it. Without those mechanisms the app is rejected. Fastshot generates the screens and logic; moderation as a process — who handles reports, how fast — is yours to organize.

Replit's agent can build a dating website and, more recently, Expo-based mobile apps, and it is a strong choice if you want a full IDE around the project. Fastshot is built specifically for the native mobile flow — swipe mechanics, push notifications, in-app subscriptions, TestFlight and store submission — so for an app that lives in the App Store and Google Play it gets you there with fewer detours.

Describe it in Fastshot: profiles with photos, swipes or like/pass, matching, chat after a match and filters. The AI builds the iOS and Android app, you preview it on your phone, and you publish to the App Store and Google Play.

Fastshot builds the dating app for iOS and Android from one description, and the Android build is a signed APK (APK builder). For the social layer around matching, see the social media app builder.

For a native dating app, Fastshot: swipe screens, matching, real-time chat, push notifications and subscriptions come from one description, and the code is yours. The AI app builder page shows how it works.