Cat people

A dating app for cat people, finally.

Every pet dating app so far has been a dog app with a cat checkbox. On Attune your cat has the card, the score, and the say.

Cat people have been badly served

Dating apps treat a cat as a personality trait and a dog as a lifestyle. In practice a cat runs a household as thoroughly as any dog; it is just quieter about it. The pet dating apps that exist are dog apps with a cat option, and their whole design, playdates, parks, meet-ups, assumes an animal that can be walked to a date.

Attune was built with both from the start.

What your cat's card says

Name, type or breed, age, energy (a Bengal and a Persian are not the same animal), temperament, and two questions that matter more for cats than for anyone: is your cat good with other cats, and is your cat good with dogs.

Those two answers do real work. Against another cat household, the score reads energy and temperament, and whether both cats could share a home. Against a dog household, it reads whether your cat tolerates dogs and, crucially, whether that specific dog is good with cats. A dog with prey drive scores low against you, with a reason that says so, before either of you sends a message.

Finding other cat people

Cat people are harder to find in public than dog people, because there is no cat park. On a normal app you scroll past forty dog photos to find one Maine coon. On Attune, cat households are a filter, and cats lead their cards.

In Kansas City, our cat people page covers the cafés, cat-only clinics and foster groups where cat people already gather. Bring the app to those; it is where the first users will come from.

Dating a dog person, with a cat

It works far more often than the stereotype says, when the animals fit. The thing that does not work is a dog with prey drive and an indoor cat, and no amount of love fixes it. Attune shows you that on the card. When the animals do fit, our guide to mixed households has the two-week introduction plan that makes it stick.

Lock in, and Plus

When you want to focus on one person, propose a lock; if they accept, you both stop browsing. Free, mutual, and it ends on its own after three quiet days. Attune Plus, the optional subscription, shows whether a match is talking to others, as a band rather than a number. Everything else stays free.

By breed

What Siamese people are like to date. Why Russian blue people take a month. Which cats get along with which dogs. Dating by breed has twenty cat pages and forty dog pages, all from the same compatibility rules the app uses.