Skiya: Dating App, Meet People

Max Oakes

About this app

Looking for a dating app where you can actually talk to someone before you match?
Skiya is a free dating app and a friendship app built on one rule: chat comes first. Message anyone who catches your eye. No mutual match needed, no paywall in the way. Make new friends nearby, meet new people who share your interests, or find real love, all in the same place.

Why Skiya Is Different
Most dating apps hand you a photo grid and hope for the best. Skiya puts your personality on the profile instead. Tags like Introvert, Gamer, and Film Lover sit where people can see them, so the conversations you start already have something to build on. That is how you meet like-minded people rather than collecting dead matches.

Chat With Strangers, Make Real Friends
You do not have to match before you message. Talk to strangers, chat with people who share your hobbies, and let the conversation decide whether it turns into a friendship, a date, or something more. Plenty of people join Skiya to make friends online or find gaming friends – romance is optional😉.

Main Features of Skiya
• Chat Before Matching: Message anyone freely. No swipe wall, no waiting for permission.
• Filter Your Preferences: Say what you are looking for – friends, love, or both. Filter by personality, kids, smoking, and drinking so you meet people who genuinely fit.
• Meet People Nearby: Local dating and local friendships. Find new friends, meet people near you, and keep it as close to home as you like.
• Find Like-Minded People: Shared hobbies, shared humor, shared values. Meet like-minded people who actually understand you.
• Friends or Dating: Build a genuine friendship, try casual dating, or look for a soulmate. You choose, and you can change your mind later.
• Neurodivergent-Friendly: Calm, low-pressure design. No timers, no forced icebreakers, nothing to perform.
• Free Dating App: Every feature is free. No hidden costs, no locked messages, no subscription.
• Safe Community: Clear rules, active moderation, and privacy controls you keep hold of.

Make Friends Nearby or Find Something Deeper
Some people open Skiya to make new friends. Some want anonymous dating and a fresh conversation with someone new. Some are looking for a relationship that lasts. All of it fits, because you set what you are looking for before anyone messages you. Meet random people, talk to people who share your world, and see where it goes.

Real Conversations, Not Just Matches
A match means nothing if the chat dies overnight. Skiya starts with the conversation, so you find out quickly whether something real is there. That is how you find a genuine soulmate, a close friend, or a partner who fits your actual life instead of your filter settings.

Who Skiya Is For
• Anyone tired of swiping through a photo grid.
• People who want to make friends online without the pressure of dating.
• People looking for love, romance, or a long relationship.
• Quiet people, gamers, film lovers, and anyone who has never fitted the standard dating app mold.
Ready to meet new people? Download Skiya, tell us what you are into, and start a real conversation tonight.

Ratings and reviews

There are so few profiles and no one responds. So the app is totally unfunctional. The app needs to collect a large amount of existing active profiles before it's even worth making a profile yourself. So people instead just join, see no one, and abandon or delete their account. If this app were to combine user bases with acespace.love and ACEapp it would then begin to have enough people to even make an attempt. Until then, there's nothing here.

This app is nearly unusable. It requires you to put your age in, but the year part is broken. I somehow entered my birth year by blindly scrolling the blank blue screen and tapping until I got the right one. It doesn't let you write an about me. You can only match with people up to 100 miles from you, and it takes 8 seconds to load between every single match. I'm sticking with Hiki.

I have filled out my profile as much as I can, uploaded a pic and the app won't let me make it visible. Not to mention uploading my pic was troublesome, no telling how the rest of the app will function.

What’s new

Added Push Notification support