It opens on Aura.
Every launch opens on Aura, with three short lines: one on today's introductions, one on your chats and one on how Aura is getting to know you. Then they settle into cards. Aura can say them aloud too; its voice is off until you turn it on.
Today's introductions takes you to Sky: Tonight's sky over where you are, and under it the people Aura chose for you, one at a time, with a timeline of today's drops and a countdown to the next.
Each introduction arrives on its own: the photo and the name, then the ring drawing round to your astrology score, then Aura's three lines on Why you two. It is already a match, so Say hello opens the chat.
Your Astro Chart opens your own wheel, drawn from your birth date, time and city — the Rising sign on the eastern horizon the way every chart is drawn, the Sun and Moon in their signs.
Meet Aura, an emotionally intelligent AI.
Aura gets to know you as you chat, and introduces you to the people you'll feel most yourself with.
Aura looks for the things that decide how you feel with someone: your humour, your warmth, the way you write. It looks for people who match them — someone who gets your jokes, meets your warmth and talks the way you do.
No long quiz and no personality test. Aura starts with what you already wrote on your profile — your bio, your interests and your prompt answers — so your first introduction can arrive as soon as onboarding is done. Then it learns from the way you talk in your chats, and it understands you better the more you chat.
Aura reads your stars too: your Sun, your Moon and your Rising, read against theirs. Astrology is one layer of the picture, not the whole of it.
Every introduction comes with three short lines on why Aura chose the pair, in plain words, pinned at the top of your chat.
Open Your Aura on the You tab to see what Aura has understood about you, in plain words that grow clearer the more you chat. A thumbs up on a line that sounds like you, a thumbs down on one that doesn't, and Aura learns from both.
What Aura learns about you stays private. It is used to understand you and find people who fit you, and nobody else sees it. Only you can see your Aura. The privacy policy says exactly what it reads and where that text goes.
A compatibility score you can take apart.
Aura reads your stars too, as one layer of the picture rather than the whole of it. Every introduction carries an astrology score out of 100. Tap it and the number opens into the ten scores it was made from.
Western tropical placements — your Sun, Moon and Rising — computed from your birth date, time and city. Longitude and time of day are what fix a Rising sign, which is why the app asks for a city rather than a country.
This is deliberately not Vedic astrology and not a kundli match. It is a modern compatibility model, and it is presented as entertainment.
Ten parameters — emotional bond, love life, physical chemistry, communication, long-term stability, spiritual connection, excitement and spark, soul connection, life alignment, and core personality match. Each is scored out of 10.
The headline is the plain average of those ten, rounded once. Inside this number there is no hidden weighting and no dial anyone turned to make it look friendlier.
The ten scores are apportioned so that they sum to the headline exactly. A breakdown that added to 82 under a headline of 84 would read as a bug, so the arithmetic is done in a way that cannot produce one.
The score between two people is identical in both directions, by construction. The person on the other end sees the same ten numbers you do. The breakdown screen says so, and it is only honest to say it because the maths guarantees it.
Long-term Stability is one of the ten. When it scores 8 or more for a pair, the card and the reading wear a small mark: Built to last. It is a fact about the two of you, computed the same way in both directions — not a badge, and not something a subscription can add.
Each parameter comes with a one-line read written for the band it landed in, and the screen calls out your strongest area. The overall number gets a verdict — from Written in the stars ✨ down to Mercury in retrograde behavior — and under the ten sits Why you two, by the stars: a few paragraphs written from both charts.
Fire and air — you feed each other. Plans get bigger in the telling, and somehow still happen. What carries you and Priya: your Moons agree on what safety feels like, so the hard days will be easier than you expect. And nothing about this will be boring — the plans will grow legs on their own.
Where to be gentle: you will misread each other in text — a voice note fixes what a paragraph cannot.
Try this first: Ask what a good, quiet Sunday looks like for them. Then tell them yours.
A profile with more in it than a face.
Onboarding is thirteen steps. What you write there is what people read on your profile, and it is where Aura starts getting to know you.
Up to six photos
Reorderable. Every one of them scanned before anyone else can load it, and checked against your verified face if you have the tick.
What you are here for
A long-term relationship, something serious, something casual — or, the fourth answer, still figuring it out. Stated in full words on the card itself, so nobody has to guess or ask in the first message.
The lifestyle picture
Drinks, smokes, weed, sober — pick as many as are true, or sober, which clears the rest. Filters nobody wants to raise on a first date.
Five interests, from twenty
Chai and coffee, cricket, trekking, startups, gaming, astrology, and fourteen more. Capped at five on purpose — a list of twenty says nothing.
Five prompt answers
Two truths and a lie · my perfect date idea · my icks and pet peeves · three movies I can't stop talking about · if I had magical powers, I would… and seven more.
Education and profession
Free text, both optional, both shown as chips on the facts row rather than buried in a bio nobody reaches.
A completion ring, not a nag. Your profile tab wears a ring showing how much of the profile is filled in, with the next unfinished step named. It is a permanent part of the screen rather than a banner that disappears, and it is visible only to you — nobody else sees how complete your profile is. Reach 100%, face check included, and Aura picks you one bonus introduction.
Introductions, a few times a day.
Aura introduces people, and every introduction is a match from the start. Distance is a hard limit: the app never stretches it to find somebody.
Regular gets two a day, at 1:00 pm and 9:00 pm. Pro gets four, at 9:00 am, 1:00 pm, 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. Elite gets seven, at 8:00 am, 9:00 am, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm. The times are India time, and 9 pm is the last one for everyone. If you allow notifications, each introduction arrives with one: A new match, chosen for you.
You don't wait for a drop to begin. As soon as onboarding is done, Aura looks for your first introduction, and it usually arrives within a few minutes. If nobody nearby fits yet, the screen says why.
At each drop, Aura picks one person for you: someone you are likely to feel comfortable with, from what you both write and the way you both talk, with both charts read against each other as one more layer. Nobody is introduced to you twice.
The chat is open from the start, so either of you can say hello. Why you two, three short lines on what the two of you share, is pinned at the top of the chat to make the first message easier.
If neither of you has written by 9:00 pm the next day, the match quietly fades. Nobody is told.
Either of you can unmatch at any time, and say why if you want to: not my type, too far, or looking for something else. The reason is never shown to the other person.
Anywhere from 5 km to 100 km, chosen by you. It is mutual: you only see people inside your radius, and only people whose own radius reaches you can see you.
Read only while the app is open, and only with your permission. Only your most recent position is kept — there is no history of where you have been, and no inference drawn from it. A position that has not been refreshed in 30 days stops counting, so a dormant account quietly stops being introduced to anyone instead of haunting the app.
A distance in whole kilometres, never finer than 2 km, and never a position. Your coordinates sit in a table that no other user's account can read at all.
Tonight's sky, the real one.
The top of Sky is a small live sky. Tap it and it opens full screen: the night over your own coordinates, computed on the phone, not a picture of a night.
Over your own coordinates
The sky as it stands over where you are, at the moment you open it — or, if it is still daylight, tonight's sky as it will look after dark, and the caption says which.
The Moon at its phase
Centred, lit exactly as much as it is tonight, labelled. The headline says the phase in words — waxing crescent, 22% lit — with moonrise and moonset underneath.
The brightest stars
Where they actually are, named. Zoom in and hundreds of fainter ones fade in around them. The dotted band across the sky is the ecliptic; the dotted line is your horizon.
All seven other planets
Mercury to Neptune, each in its own tint, each where it is tonight — including the ones below your horizon, drawn dim so you know which way to look and when.
Pinch to zoom, drag across the whole sky
The whole sky is one flat map you drag around, the Moon at the centre where you start. Pinch in on a planet or the Moon, pinch back out to the whole sky. The edges stop cleanly.
Earth under your feet
Drag all the way down through the horizon and there it is, at the bottom of the map, labelled. The chips along the foot name the Moon, the Sun, the sign rising in the east and the planets that are up.
Chat that feels like yours.
Openers when you don't know how to start, a question worth asking once you are talking, and a note from Aura once the conversation takes off.
Send “bloo” in any chat and Bloo hops in.
Voice notes
Up to sixty seconds, recorded and sent in the conversation. Stored so that only the two of you can play them — a signed link that expires, never a public address.
Replies with context
Answer a specific prompt or a specific photo from their profile and your message arrives carrying it. The other person sees what you meant without you describing it.
Why you two, pinned
Every introduction's chat opens with Aura's Why you two pinned at the top — three short lines on what the two of you share — so the first message has somewhere to start.
Say hello
Not sure how to start? A chat with no messages yet offers three first messages written around what the two of you share, and Another for three more. Tap one and it lands in your message box, ready to edit; nothing is sent until you send it.
GIFs, searched in the chat
Search for a GIF right from the message box and send it without leaving the conversation.
Unmatch is permanent
In both directions, immediately. Say why if you want to, or don't. Neither of you is introduced to the other again, and the conversation closes.
Aura noticed something. Once a conversation takes off, Aura writes you both the same short note: why you two fit, and what's good about how you talk. Either of you can hide it, and if it gets something wrong, Report this note takes it down for you both while we look.
Something to ask. Once you're talking — at least four messages, two from each of you — up to four of your chats a day get a question worth asking, never the same one twice, sitting above the message box in that chat. Ask it puts it in your draft and nothing is sent until you send it; Another draws the next. Send one and the card is gone from that chat for the day, and the next day's four are drawn afresh.
A tick that means something specific.
Plenty of apps have a blue tick. This is exactly what this one certifies, and exactly what it does not.
A live check, not a selfie
An oval appears on screen and you look into it for a few seconds. A photo held up to the camera will not pass it. Your face is then matched against the photos already on the profile.
Nothing is kept
No video of you is ever saved. The check happens in the moment and nothing from it is stored — so there is nothing sitting there to leak, and nothing to ask us to delete.
It stays honest
Add a photo and the tick comes off until that photo has been checked against your verified face. If it does not match, the tick stays off. It cannot be bought, and no tier includes it.
Plan a date, from inside the chat.
A conversation that has gone somewhere gets a way to go somewhere real: a spot, a day, a time, and one tap for the other person to say yes.
The calendar button beside the message box appears only once the two of you have exchanged 40 messages, with at least ten from each side. Until then it is not there at all — a plan is something you earn by talking, not a button to press on hello.
The app suggests places in your city that real people recommended on Reddit — the fifteen most-upvoted in each of 32 Indian cities, each with the line someone actually wrote about it, its area, and a link to the thread. Three at a time, with Something else for the next three, and Your idea for a place you both already know. A city with no spots yet gets the free-text idea alone, and says so.
Three weekend shortcuts, or Another day or time for any day in the next month and any half hour from morning to late night. The page also tells you what the Moon will be doing that evening.
The plan lands in the chat as a card. They can say yes, suggest another — which opens the same page for a counter-plan — or you can remove it. Nothing in the plan is edited in place: every answer is a message of its own, so both phones always agree on where the plan stands.
Once both of you have said yes, Add to calendar appears on the card — for both people. It opens your phone's own new-event sheet, prefilled: the title is Date with Priya (their first name), the location is the spot, the time is the one you agreed. You confirm on your phone's sheet, and the event goes into whichever calendar you choose there.
The app never reads your calendar. On iOS it asks only for write-only access, which is all it needs; on Android it hands the event to the calendar app and has no permission to read anything back. It cannot see what else is on your day, and it does not ask to.
Choose who you’re introduced to.
Three filters in Match settings, on Pro and Elite, that narrow your introductions to the people you would actually say hello to.
Verified faces only
One switch. On, and only people who have earned the blue tick are introduced to you. Off, and everyone can be. The tick itself is still earned by the camera check and never bought.
Only the signs you want
Pick Sun signs one by one, or pick an element — Fire, Earth, Air, Water — and its three signs come along together. Leave it empty and every sign is welcome.
Only the intents you are open to
A long-term relationship, something serious, something casual, still figuring it out — choose the answers you want to see on the card. The summary line under the settings says, in one sentence, who you will be introduced to.
What stays mutual. Who you show each other, your age range and your distance work both ways — two people are introduced only when each one's settings reach the other — for everyone, at every tier. These three filters are yours: they narrow who you are introduced to, and they are applied where introductions are chosen, not by the app looking away. Lapse to Regular and your choices are kept, quietly waiting.
Your data, and the two buttons that matter.
Export everything
A copy of what the app holds about you, from inside the app, without asking anyone. Right of access, as a button rather than as an email thread.
Delete everything
Immediate and permanent, from inside the app. Profile, photos, matches, messages, your Aura, stored position and notification tokens. No grace period and no shadow copy.
Stored in India
Your profile, photos, introductions, matches and messages live in the Mumbai region. The privacy policy names each thing that leaves the country, including the text Aura reads, and why.
No ad tracking
No advertising identifiers, no third-party advertising, no analytics trackers, and no background location. The app has nothing to sell about you.
Live on Android. iPhone next.
Cosmic Match is live on Google Play in India. The iPhone and iPad app is coming soon to the App Store, and its link lands here the day it is out.