Amana 101

Discover shows a small curated batch rather than an endless feed. That is the whole design, not a shortage of members.

An infinite feed encourages skimming, and skimming is how people end up dismissing someone they would actually have liked. A short batch is meant to be looked at properly. Anyone you have already decided on is excluded, so the batch is always people you haven't seen.

If you want to look more broadly on your own terms, use search rather than waiting for the next batch.

Primary information first: name, age, sect and prayer level. Then a secondary row with profession, education, ethnicity and marital status. Below that a short extract from their "about me", their verification seals, and a match percentage.

Anything a person hasn't filled in is simply left out — no blank labels, no placeholders. If they have recorded a video introduction, the card notes that one exists, but it cannot be played until you have matched.

It compares your profile with theirs across five attributes: sect, ethnicity, prayer level, education and marital status. The higher the number, the more of those you have in common.

Two honest caveats. It measures similarity, not compatibility, and certainly not whether a marriage would work. And it only counts attributes where both of you have filled the field in — a blank is skipped rather than treated as a mismatch, which means an incomplete profile isn't punished, but also can't score.

The same person can show a different percentage to different members. That is correct: it is measured against whoever is looking.

Search is a deliberate lookup. Filter by age range, location, education, marital status, sect, ethnicity and prayer level, and by whether someone holds particular verification badges. It returns a broader set than Discover and is ordered by name, not curated.

Shortlist saves someone for later. It is private, has no effect on them, does not notify them, and does not count as expressing interest.

Who's interested lists everyone who has expressed interest in you and is waiting on your answer. Expressing interest back creates the match immediately; passing removes them from the list.

An optional short note you can attach when you express interest in someone, from Discover, search or your shortlist. It appears with your name on their "who's interested" list, so a person deciding about you has something more than a profile to go on.

It is not a currency and there is no quota — every member can send as many as they like, because there is no premium tier here for one to be sold in. Expressing interest stays a single tap; the compliment is a separate, opt-in action beside it.

Compliments are visible to a stranger before you have matched, so they are subject to the same standards as everything else on Amana, and can be reported.

Text messages, voice notes up to 60 seconds, and video notes up to 30 seconds. You can also start a voice or video call from the conversation.

A video note is recorded, then reviewed — you watch it back and choose to send it or record again. Nothing leaves your phone until you choose to send. Note that, like text and voice notes, a sent video note cannot be unsent.

Tapping the person's name at the top opens their full profile over the conversation, without losing your place or an unsent message.

Either person in a conversation can invite a third Amana member — identified by their email address — to read that one conversation.

The invitation does nothing until the other person accepts it. Until then the proposed chaperone is not told anything at all, not even that the invitation exists, because telling them would reveal that the two of you are matched before anyone had agreed to that.

Once accepted, the chaperone can read the conversation's history and see new messages as they arrive. They cannot write, call, or see anything else about either of you. Whoever sent the invitation can withdraw it at any time, and unmatching ends it automatically. Declining an invitation does not end the match.

No. Boost is included with membership, and there is nothing to purchase — Amana has one tier, so there is no premium currency to sell you.

Boosting places your profile near the front of other members' daily batches for one hour. You can do it once every seven days. The button shows which of the three states you are in: available now, active until a given time, or on cooldown until a given date.

Boost changes the order profiles are shown in, not who can see you. If you have incognito turned on, boosting will not make you visible.

Two possibilities. Either the other person unmatched, or the match expired.

A match where neither of you has sent a single message within 72 hours expires automatically, and you are both notified. Once one message has been sent by either side, the match is permanent and no time limit applies again.

Either kind ends up on your "previously matched" list, which says which happened. An expired match can be restored by either of you. A match the other person ended can only be restored by them.

The mosque directory lists participating mosques and the marriage-related services they offer. You can optionally associate your profile with one, and separately choose whether that mosque can see you in its own portal — two independent settings, both reversible.

Events are marriage courses, seminars, lectures and social events published by those mosques. Viewing one records nothing about you; there is no RSVP.

The Imams and counsellors directory lists people offering premarital guidance, family mediation and marriage advice. You contact them directly using the details listed — there is no in-app booking, and Amana is not part of the arrangement.

The nikah checklist is a private list covering documents, wali, witnesses, venue and preparation. Nobody else can see it — not other members, not your associated mosque. It currently carries a note marking the guidance as draft while it is reviewed by someone knowledgeable in the nikah process.