HOLY: The best-rated Christian dating & friendship app. Every profile reviewed by a real person. Connect with people on mission for the Gospel. Grow your faith together.
HOLY is the Christian dating and friendship app for people who seriously love Jesus. Every profile is reviewed by a real person and selfie-verified, there is no swiping, and HOLY is rated 4.7 stars by over 34,000 people. Made by married couple Kathleen & Jonathan.
MEET CHRISTIANS NEAR YOU
Each day, HOLY introduces you to an inspiring selection of Christians near you, every one of them reviewed by a real person. See someone you would like to know? Wave at them. If they wave back, we connect you both and you can chat.
Choose Dating, Friends, or both. Friendship is not an afterthought on HOLY. Many members join to find Christian friends and community first.
WHY PEOPLE TRUST HOLY
• Real people only. Every profile is manually reviewed by our team, and every member is selfie-verified. Verification is required.
• No swiping. Every person is made in the image of God, and the app is designed to treat them that way.
• Meaningfully paced. Intentional breaks and scripture reminders instead of endless swiping.
• Independent and community-supported. No ads, no outside investors, no corporate agenda.
GROW YOUR FAITH TOGETHER
• Read why people say Jesus matters to them.
• Share your testimony and the Bible verses that inspire you.
• Profile prompts designed for encouragement, not small talk.
• Discover people in a similar season of life.
WHO IS HOLY FOR?
We welcome everyone who confesses Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and considers themselves a Christian (confessing the Nicene Creed) to join! We seek to connect the greater Christian community, and are united in our love for Jesus.
Whether you are Catholic, Nondenominational, Evangelical, Anglican, Baptist, Reformed, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, Messianic, or are just at the beginning of your journey with Jesus, you are welcome to join our diverse community of believers!
Note: Christ-honoring dating is only available to those who are single and of age 18 and upward.
ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER
This app was inspired by the call to unity (in Ephesians 4 & John 17) and the call to love and encourage one another (in Hebrews 10 & 1 Thessalonians 4). In addition, we were greatly inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book “Life Together”. Bonhoeffer beautifully describes how we can see Jesus more clearly in the lives and testimonies of our brothers and sisters.
** Winner of both Jury and People’s Choice Awards at NYC Redeemer Presbyterian’s Center for Faith & Work’s Startup Pitch Night. **
SUPPORTER
HOLY is free to download and use, made possible by members who generously subscribe to our Supporter plan. Supporting HOLY funds the app and its mission, and unlocks extra features:
• See all received waves in one place.
• Go back with 48-hour history.
• Send priority messages.
• See when your chats are read.
Prices and durations are displayed in the app. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings.
WHO MADE HOLY?
Unlike most apps, HOLY (formerly United Young) is built and cared for by the two of us (Kathleen & Jonathan), with help from our trusted friend Karen, who looks after support and reviews new profiles. We made this app for Christians to meet and encourage one another in their walk with Jesus.
We believe it’s more important than ever to share an uplifting word, a prayer, or a testimony with one another. May we remind each other of the eternal hope we have found in Jesus. That’s the mission of this app, and we pray you may find encouragement in meeting fellow believers!
Privacy Policy: https://www.holy.app/privacy
Terms of Use: https://www.holy.app/terms
Connected in Christ,
Kathleen & Jonathan
support@holy.app · https://www.holy.app
I’m throughly loving this app and making the type of connections I have been desiring and praying for, quickly as well. God is truly showing out. I was hitting the roadblock in the dating pool with FB dating and hinge or fb groups. I would make connections then the spirituality faith walk conversation would be the road block every time. I prayed about what God needed me to do and how to wait for my kingdom spouse while also operating in my faith because faith without works is dead, so i knew I needed to put myself out there. I searched thru the App Store and found HOLY! It has been a blessing to just immediately know the biggest part of connecting with a potential spouse was immediately addressed to even join the app-“What’s your beliefs about Jesus or what does he mean to you?”. Are the first questions asked in your profile 🙌🏽🙏🏽💃🏽Also, knowing that people are serious about their faith walk if they decided to research and find this app just like me! I’m looking forward to coming back with a success story. I feel and believe it’s going to happen thru here!! I have a strong connection going and trusting God and the process. If you want to find other Christian Minded folk to be equally yoked with and don’t wanna have to do the “get to know yous” but dying to ask right away, “do you believe in Jesus?” on other apps, this is the app for you! It’s immediately part of the profile and you can gage a profile to know if you’re at least equally yoked before starting the connection 🙌🏽🙏🏽 Sending best wishes love, blessings and answered prayers to you reading this. ❤️🙏🏽
Ok depending on your location
BearTheMarI
This is app is ok. I paid for a month but will not be renewing. In reference to dating, you'd probably be more successful if you're living in a rural area or in the south. There was not much of a selection of people within my city. Also, the app's shortest distance you can choose is 50miles for connecting with people. Another thing is if you match with someone and then want to un match because the vibes got weird, but the person didn't necessarily do anything wrong (For example, I matched with one person who wanted to start dating after hi). It is a bit difficult and you have no choice but to unmatch and report. Another issue is, if meeting someone within your denomination is important to you, you have an even smaller amount of users. For example I am catholic and would like to match with someone in the same context of my faith. There was very little users with the same denomination. And lastly, they have an option to connect as friends. This was entirely weird to me because your dating profile is used interchangeably (when setting up your profile your asked to choose if it is for dating or friendship, but it appears the profile gets used for both). Who I want in friendship is not necessarily who I want in a partner. Also, the 'friendship' option is gender targeted. So if you're a female in search of a friend your profile gets shown to other women. There is nothing wrong with that except the profiles intentions clearly states interested in dating-marriage.
Developer Response
Hi BearTheMarI, thank you for sharing your feedback. We're working hard to spread the app so more people can join. Depending on your preferences, we may need more time to find profiles within a particular area or age range. If you run out of profiles in your area, feel free to either widen your preferences a bit so you can find people a little further away or wait and come back to the app in a few weeks. New people join every day, and the people that are within your preferences will be shown to you first! In terms of the Friendship section, we have noted your feedback and improvements as we continue to improve the app. For now, we encourage you to share what you are looking for in the “Reach out if” section of your profile for both dating and friendship (i.e. community, prayer partner) so it is clear for people and connections can be made easier. We appreciate your feedback and patience as we continue to improve the app. Blessings, Loretta
Pleasantly Surprised!
PeaceisEverything
Hi Kathleen! My name is Dan and I live in Carrollton Ohio. I just joined yesterday and wanted to say that I am very pleasantly surprised. I haven’t been on many dating sites over time because I am always in long-term relationships and in general just not that type. I have to say from the things that I have seen that your site is much different and pleasantly surprising in a lot of good ways, and I am very impressed with the set up of it all. The only thing that I’m not too fond of his the character minimization on things, but I guess I could also be a good thing. I have reached out to some people and haven’t heard anything back yet, but I’ve only been on here a day and that is not the point. I can honestly see from the people that are on here that mostly from what I’ve seen the majority of the people are here for one reason and God based in the way, they live their life. That’s truly what I’m looking for is to be surrounded by good people that are faith based and truly good hearted, sincere and moral base people. Like I said, I’ve been in a lot of long-term relationships. My entire life and I’ve never been married.. The difference is, I’ve never 100% base the relationship with focus on faith in God, and I feel now looking back that without that or not having that leaves no real chance of a true, lasting in lifelong relationship, which is why I’m here. Just wanted to say thank you and I hope you have a good day!
Best app hands down, only app I’ll prob ever use again
Danielledanielledanielleeeeee
I’ve had a lot of apps over the years..this is by far my best experience..this app should set the bar for all the dating apps out there I met my best friend on here and I just appreciate so much the wholesomeness of this app and the values 💜 very rare gem in this day and age..I think it’s the only app I’ll ever want to use..the only thing I’m wondering about is if I want to consider dating another female, this might not be the place I’m going to find that though I’m glad the app like lets that because some would not give the option..I wish more people out there had the values of the kinds of people on this app because honestly I would rather be single for the rest of my life than to be with someone who does not share some of my very core values which basically come down to being able to love someone the way we all deserve to be loved, kindness, inner beauty, and idk there are so many important values within the Christian faith that are hard to put into words..one, I would like to form a relationship with someone that has faith, faith in a higher power of good, and all the traits of what makes a Christian, like lifestyle choices, how they approach sex, monogamy, not rushing into things, real connection. True intimacy, mature communicative relationships
Thanks for your valuable feedback! By popular request, you can now share your marital status and specify your exact denomination or faith tradition on your profile. We’ve also made sending waves and chatting a better experience, along with a bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements to keep things running smoothly. May you be blessed as you connect with fellow believers!
Version 10.8
The developer, United Young, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
United Young Inc.
Size
47.4 MB
Category
Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
18+
18+
This app is rated 18+ with content restrictions.
Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls.
