Only for verified healthcare professionals
A dating app only for verified healthcare professionals? Yes — Clindr.
Written and maintained by the Clindr team. Built by IslasDigital, Tenerife, Spain. This page is corrected before the app is: if something stops being true, it changes here first.
Clindr is a dating app only for healthcare professionals registered in Spain. To get in you give your colegiado number and college, and a person on our team checks them against the official registers before your profile goes live. Matching weighs shifts, on-call frequency, mobility and future plans. It has not launched yet; the beta list is open.
You stop explaining your rota. The context is already on your profile before anyone says hello.
We're starting in Spain.
Valencia · Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia
My perfect date would be… «Cenar bien y sin prisa, en un sitio pequeño donde el camarero …»
Why another app
Why doesn't a normal dating app work when you work shifts?
Because you spend the first three messages doing admin.
That you're off one Saturday a month, and it isn't this one. That after a 24-hour shift you are not going out for dinner, you are going to bed at ten in the morning. That you're deep in your oposición and, honestly, that is your whole life right now. That you might be placed 500 kilometres away in six months and you don't yet know where.
None of that makes you difficult. It makes you a healthcare professional. But on a generalist app it lands as a string of excuses, and you're the one who has to keep making them.
What it costs you: you cancel more than you attend, so you look flaky to people who have no way of knowing you were still in resus at midnight. You explain the same four things to every new match, and the explaining tires you out more than the shift did.
You start swiping less — not because you want less, but because the overhead of being understood is higher than the chance of it happening. On Clindr that context is already on your profile before the first message.
Verification
How does Clindr check that everyone really is a healthcare professional?
When you create your account we ask for your colegiado number and the professional college you belong to. A person on the team checks those details against the official registers of the healthcare professional colleges before approving your profile. There is no automation behind it: someone actually looks. Your registration details are never shown to other users: all they see is the verified-profile badge.
- 1
You sign up
Colegiado number, college and professional category. None of it is published on your profile.
- 2
We review it by hand
A person on the team checks your details against the official registers of the healthcare professional colleges. It can take a few hours or a couple of days.
- 3
You get in verified
Your profile carries the green badge. Your photos and prompts go through the same review before they become visible.
- Colegiado number
- ••• •• ••••
- Professional college
- Medical College of Valencia
- Category
- Medicine · Resident
- Visible to other users
- The badge only
Compatibility
How does Clindr match people on shifts, on-call and mobility?
Your profile answers questions other apps don't ask. That's what the compatibility percentage on each profile is built from. Every question is optional, and the ones you skip don't count against you — they're simply left out of the calculation.
This is how it shows up on a profile
- Mobility
- Future plans
- Fixed or rotating shift
- On-call shifts per month
- Free weekends
- Pace of life
- Kids
- Social life
- Smoking
- Sports
- Animals
If the two of you haven't answered anything in common, you'll see no percentage at all. We'd rather show nothing than a number that means nothing.
What it looks like inside
What is Clindr actually like to use?
Discover: one profile at a time, with a photo, one of your prompt answers, your sports and animals, the verified badge and the compatibility percentage. Profile: you pick 2 or 3 prompts out of eleven ("My perfect date would be…", "My most surreal on-call-shift story was…") and answer in 150 characters. Messages: the chat only opens once you've both liked each other. The free plan includes a set number of likes per day. Plans with extra features will come later: coming soon.
Discover
Profile
Messages
Screenshots of the real app. The profiles shown are examples: fictional people with AI-generated photos, never photos of real people.
Privacy
Who can see my Clindr profile — could a colleague find me?
Your profile only exists inside Clindr: there are no public profiles, nothing is indexed by search engines, and your photos can't be opened from outside the app. To appear in Discover you have to have passed verification.
- There are no public profiles and nothing is indexed by search engines.
- Your colegiado number and college are used only to verify you.
- Saying where you work is optional.
- You can download your data and delete your account from inside the app.
We won't promise you that a verified colleague won't come across you in Discover. It can happen. An incognito mode is planned as part of the paid plans.
Proof
What can you check before you trust Clindr with your registration details?
We have no members yet, so no testimonials and no numbers. What we can show you is exactly what happens to your data. Judge us on the method.
The verification
- You submit colegiado number, college, professional category and career stage. Your profile only enters the review queue once those fields are complete.
- A person then opens the official register of the relevant college, checks the number, and approves or rejects. There is no automated cross-check with any register.
- Until that review is done, you do not appear in Discover.
- None of those three details is published on your profile. Everyone else sees the badge and nothing more.
- Change your colegiado number after approval and the profile drops straight back to pending.
The score
- Nine weighted criteria: mobility and future plans weigh heaviest, then children, then smoking, shift type, on-call frequency, pace of life and social life, and free weekends lightest.
- Shared sports and animals are a separate adjustment on top.
- Anything either of you left blank drops out of both numerator and denominator, so a skipped question can never cost you points.
- Nothing answered in common: no percentage at all, rather than a fabricated one.
Moderation and safety
- Photos and prompt answers sit at pending from the moment you upload and stay invisible until a person approves them, item by item.
- Two or three prompts from a fixed set of eleven, 150 characters each.
- Blocking works both ways, and there are seven fixed report reasons. A banned address stays banned.
Your data
- Every upload is re-encoded to a clean JPEG carrying no metadata — EXIF, XMP and IPTC gone, and with them the GPS coordinates of your home or your hospital.
- There are no public profiles and nothing is indexed by search engines.
- You can export everything as machine-readable JSON and delete your account from inside the app; deletion takes your profile, photos, prompts, likes, matches and messages with it.
Comparison
How is Clindr different from Tinder, Bumble or Hinge?
We only stand behind the left-hand column, because that is our product. The right-hand column describes how generalist dating apps work in general.
| How is Clindr different from Tinder, Bumble or Hinge? | Clindr | Generalist dating apps (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge) |
|---|---|---|
| Who can join | Healthcare professionals registered with a Spanish professional college, including MIR and EIR residents. | Anyone over 18. Your occupation is whatever you type into a profile field yourself. |
| What is verified | Your colegiado number and your professional college, checked against the official registers. | Photo or ID verification: it confirms you are the person in your pictures, not what you do for a living. |
| Who does the checking | A person on our team, one profile at a time. Hours to a couple of days. | Automated facial recognition on Tinder and Hinge; Bumble combines automated systems with human review. None of them consults a professional register, because that layer does not exist. |
| If your professional details change | The profile drops back to pending and a person checks it again before re-approving it. | Not applicable: there is no verified professional detail that could change. |
| What the match is built on | Mobility, future plans, shift type, on-call frequency, free weekends, pace of life, children, social life and smoking, plus sports and pets as an adjustment. | Interests, distance and in-app behaviour. There is no indication that any of them asks about shifts or on-call at sign-up. |
| Photos and prompts | A person approves them, item by item, before anyone sees them. | They are screened automatically before they are published, and on Bumble a person reviews them as well. Reporting is a second layer, not the only one. |
| If someone is not who they claim | "Not a healthcare professional" is one of the seven built-in report reasons. | Reportable as a fake profile, but there is no professional credential to check it against. |
| Where it runs | In your browser, installable to your home screen; the shell works offline. | Bumble and Hinge are native-app only — Bumble retired its web version on 8 August 2026. Tinder is the exception and keeps a full web version. |
The right-hand column was checked on 21 August 2026 against the three apps’ own public documentation — help centres, community guidelines and safety pages. These apps change often: Bumble retired its web version thirteen days before that check. If something has stopped being accurate, write to us and we will correct it.
Beta
When does Clindr open, and what does the beta include?
We're opening the beta in waves and there isn't a firm date yet. The moment there is one, we'll email you. The whole beta is free and we don't ask for a card. Places are limited for an unglamorous reason: every verification is reviewed by a person, and only so many fit in a day. We go in order of sign-up. We'd rather give you a real date than open the app half-finished.
How do I join the beta waiting list?
You can't sign up in the app yet. All that exists today is the waiting list.
Questions
What do healthcare professionals ask before they join Clindr?
Who can join Clindr?
Healthcare professionals registered with a Spanish professional college, including MIR and EIR residents. We're still working out how to handle medical and nursing students, because verification depends on the colegiado number. Join the waiting list anyway — we'll write to you once we've decided.
How do you verify that I'm a healthcare professional?
A person on our team checks your colegiado number and your college against the official registers of the Spanish healthcare professional colleges. There is no automated cross-check, which is why approval can take a few hours or a couple of days. If something doesn't add up, we intend to write to you rather than simply reject you.
Is my colegiado number shown on my profile?
No. Your colegiado number, your college and your professional category are used only to verify you and are never displayed to other users. All anyone else sees is the verified badge. Saying where you work is a separate, optional field.
What happens if I change my colegiado number after approval?
Your profile goes straight back into the review queue and a person checks it again before re-approving it. There is no way to get verified and then quietly swap the details for different ones. It is the least convenient part of the system and also the part that holds it up.
How is the compatibility percentage calculated?
From nine weighted questions — mobility, future plans, children, smoking, social life, fixed or rotating shift, on-call frequency, free weekends and pace of life — plus a smaller adjustment for shared sports and for pets. Questions you skip are left out of the calculation entirely; they never count against you.
What happens if the two of us haven't answered anything in common?
You see no percentage at all. Not a zero, not a placeholder — nothing. A score built on no shared answers would be a made-up number, and a made-up number on a dating profile is worse than an honest blank space.
Can my colleagues see me on Clindr?
Yes, if they are verified and using the app. We're not going to tell you otherwise. You choose which photos you upload, and saying where you work is an optional field you can leave blank. An incognito mode is planned as part of the paid plans.
Is Clindr free?
During the beta, yes: free, with no card required. After that you'll still be able to use Clindr free with a daily limit on likes. Plans with extra features will come later, but the prices are not settled and nothing is charged unless you sign up for it yourself.
Do I need my colegiado number to join the waiting list?
No. Right now we only ask for your name, your email and what you do. The colegiado number is requested inside the app when you create your account — not on this page, and not before the beta opens.
What happens to my data, and can I delete my account?
You can download everything we hold about you as a JSON file, and delete your account from inside the app. Deletion removes your profile, photos, prompts, matches and messages, and the image files themselves. We don't sell your data or hand it over for advertising.
When does Clindr launch?
There's no firm date yet, and we'd rather say that than put one up that moves later. The beta opens in waves, places go in sign-up order, and every verification is reviewed by a person. We'll email you as soon as there's a date.
Who's behind this
Who is behind Clindr?
Clindr started as the idea of a doctor working in Spain who got tired of explaining his shifts on apps that don't understand them. The app is built and maintained by IslasDigital, a small studio based in Tenerife. There isn't much more behind it: we're not a big platform and we don't have a hundred-person moderation team. That's why verification is manual, that's why beta places are limited, and that's why we'd rather grow slowly with a properly filtered community.
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