Friends only. And unlike everywhere else, that is enforced rather than implied.
Making friends as a couple is strangely difficult, and almost nothing is built for it. You need two people to get on with two other people, on an evening all four are free, doing something nobody hates. That is a lot of conditions, and the usual route is waiting for it to happen by accident through work or family.
So people search for an app. And then they find the real problem.
Search for this and most of what comes back is swinging, or is carefully worded so it could be either. If you are a couple who simply want another couple to get dinner with, that is exhausting and slightly grim, and most people close the tab.
On nearly every platform, a "couple" profile is one person who ticked a box. You find out on the night. This is the single most common complaint about the entire category, and it is a design failure rather than bad luck.
Four people in a group chat is where plans go to die. Everybody is agreeable, nobody commits, and it fades.
Friends only, written into the rules. Couple accounts exist to make friends with other couples. Pushing for anything non-platonic is a specific, named reason to report someone, and it gets accounts removed. Not a tone we hope for. A rule.
This is the part nobody else does properly:
One person cannot run a couple account alone on Kindred. Not "is discouraged from". Cannot.
You see another couple's interests, roughly how far away they are, and a few lines in their own words. No photos at first, for either side. Which means you are picking people you would enjoy a Saturday with, rather than picking a face.
All four of you see names and photos at the same moment, after you have already been talking. Nobody gets a look at the others first.
By day 7 it starts asking the question the group chat never does: what are you doing, where, and when. When you meet, you scan each other's code again to confirm it actually happened. That is why conversations here end in a dinner instead of a slow fade.
No. See above; it is a rule with a report button attached, not a wink.
Fine, and ordinary. Kindred does not care about the shape of your relationship, only that there are two of you and you both signed up.
Then it will not work, because the app structurally requires both of you. That is a feature. A couple account run by one enthusiastic partner is exactly the thing everyone else complains about.
Free to download, and the free tier is a real app. Kindred is $0.99 a month with the first month free, Kindred+ is $2.99. No advertising, no tracking, nothing sold or shared, which is why it costs anything at all.
Kindred is opening one city at a time, because an app like this only works if there are couples near you. Join the launch list and you get Kindred free for good, plus three months of Kindred+.
Kindred does not run background checks and does not verify that anyone is who they say they are. Meet somewhere public the first few times, tell someone where you are going, sort out your own way home, and never send anyone money. The safety section is honest about exactly what we do and what we cannot do.