Questions

No. Nobody on Handkerchief is ever shown a list of the women in a room. A man checked in beside you sees a number and nothing else. He can't browse you, can't tell whether you're on the app, and can't tell you're single. That holds even if he signs up as a woman, because a woman's view is a list of men. The only way a man ever sees you is if you drop your handkerchief on him, and then he sees you properly: name, photo, all of it. You decide when that happens, and it never happens by accident.

Be somewhere, and check in. You won’t see anyone, just how many people are there. If a woman drops her handkerchief on you, you see exactly who she is and can go over. You never have to guess whether someone wants to be approached, and you’re never turned down in front of a room. That’s the trade: you don’t get to choose, and you don’t get to be wrong.

When you're out somewhere and open to meeting someone, check in. You'll see who else is checked in at that place right now. Drop a handkerchief on someone. If they drop one back, you both find out, and you go and say hello. That's the whole thing.

We’re opening Lisbon one neighbourhood at a time, so there’s someone to meet when you walk in. Join the next batch and we’ll tell you when it’s your turn. Send your link to a friend and you move up.

There's no password. Enter your email and we send a six-digit code — check spam if it hasn't arrived in a minute. Or use Continue with Google, which skips the email entirely.

Neither. There's nothing to attend and nothing organised. It works anywhere you'd meet someone in real life, the way people used to: a café, a park, the gym, your coworking.

No. There’s no chat and no DMs, on purpose. When she drops a handkerchief and he picks it up, the app tells you both and gets out of the way. The conversation happens in person or not at all.

One a day, resetting at midnight. That's deliberate: if you had unlimited handkerchiefs, receiving one would mean nothing.

We check that the photo has a face in it, so people can recognise each other in the room. A landscape or a photo of your dog won't pass. One of you, looking at the camera, will.