the rules of the room

If you don't feel safe being seen, nothing else about the app matters.

last updated: 2026-07-10

18+ is a wall, not a vibe

Everyone on Waveback will be 18 or older, verified through a third-party provider - Waveback never sees or stores your documents, only the yes/no answer. On an avatar-first app nobody can eyeball an age, so verification isn't a settings toggle here. It's architecture.

And if verification misfires - a false flag, a stuck check - a human looks at it and tells you what went wrong. Not a silent lockout, not a support void. Getting wrongly flagged is not a banishment.

Safe to be visibly femme

Most of the internet teaches women and femme-presenting people to hide: voice off, gender unlisted, avatar picked to deflect attention. We're building Waveback so that defense isn't necessary.

• Harassment gets you removed. Not warned into politeness - removed.
• You will never be required to share your voice, your face, or your gender. Not to verify, not to match, not ever.
• Who can message you is a setting you control, not a default you endure.

Block means gone

One tap. They can't see you, you can't see them - profile, chat, everywhere. No "are you sure," no friction, no notification to them. And reports go to a human being who answers, not a void with a checkmark animation.

Photos stay behind verification

Photos in chat unlock only for verified members - so every image that can reach you has a verified adult identity behind it. Avatars first, always; faces are opt-in, both ways.

No bots, no fake numbers

We won't inflate the room - no fake profiles, no bots padding your matches. If it's a small room, you'll see a small room, and the number you see is the real one.

What we'll never do

• Read your chats to train matching. The algorithm learns only from consented signals - likes, passes, response rates, an opt-in "did you meet?" Never message contents. Never photos.
• Sell your data. There is no version of this where your orientation or your DMs are a revenue line.
• Dark-pattern you. Pricing said openly, unsubscribe that works, delete that deletes.

Hold us to it

This page only moves in public - changes get announced, not slipped in. When the app goes live, this page grows the concrete details: the reporting flow, response times, and a named contact for appeals.