How Amana works

Decide who the profile is for

The very first question Amana asks is whether you are creating a profile for yourself, or as a guardian for someone in your family. That choice shapes everything that follows, so it comes before anything else — not buried in settings afterwards.

If you choose the guardian route, you create your own account first, then build the profile for the person seeking marriage. The guardian and wali role is explained in full here.

Create your account

Signup is a short sequence of single-question screens rather than one long form: your account details, then your date of birth and basic details, gender, sect, how you would describe your prayer, and your profession. Amana is for adults only — everyone must be 18 or over, and this is enforced by our servers, not just by the app.

We ask for your real name. Amana does not have nicknames, handles or display names, because a verification badge is only meaningful if it is attached to a checkable identity.

You will be sent a six-digit code by email to confirm the address is yours. Nothing else opens until that code is entered.

Become a member

Amana is a paid platform with a single tier. After signing up you will be asked to subscribe before you can browse, match, message or verify anything. There is no free level of the app to be upsold out of — the membership is the whole product.

Payment is handled through Google Play's own billing system, so your card details are held by Google and never by Amana. Pricing will be confirmed before launch. [price — to be confirmed]

Complete your profile

Beyond the signup basics you can add your location, ethnicity, height, education, the languages you speak, a short "about me", and a photo. You can also record a 30-second voice or video introduction if you would like people to hear you rather than only read you.

Your photo is stored on our servers and can only be fetched by a signed-in member — it is never sitting on a public web address. Until you and another person have both expressed interest, everyone sees it blurred.

Get verified

This is the part of Amana that makes the rest of it worth doing. You can complete a government ID check with a liveness test, a DBS Basic Disclosure, and a UK degree check. You also declare your marital status, with supporting evidence reviewed by a person if you are divorced or widowed.

Each completed check adds a gold seal to your profile that other members can see. What each check involves, and how expiry and renewal work.

Discover — a small batch, once a day

Discover shows a curated handful of profiles rather than an infinite feed. You express interest or pass on each one. If you change your mind immediately, you can undo your last decision.

Each card shows the person's name, age, sect and prayer level, then their profession, education, ethnicity and marital status, a short extract from their "about me", their verification seals, and a match percentage based on how many of those attributes you and they share.

If Discover isn't enough, you can search with filters — age, location, education, marital status, sect, ethnicity, prayer level, and whether a person holds particular verification badges — save people to a shortlist, and see everyone who has expressed interest in you.

Match, then talk

A conversation only opens when interest is mutual. There is no way to message someone who has not expressed interest in you, and no paid unlock that changes that. From the conversation you can send text, voice notes and short video notes, or start a voice or video call.

When you tap a person's name in a conversation, their full profile opens over the chat, so you can check something without losing your place or your unsent message.

Conversations are not rationed. There is no weekly cap on how many you can have or how much you can say. The one time limit is this: a match where neither person has said anything within 72 hours quietly expires — and either of you can restore it afterwards.

Invite a chaperone, if you want one

Either person in a conversation can invite a third Amana member — a sibling, a parent, a trusted friend — to read that one conversation. The other person has to agree before the chaperone can see anything, and the person who invited them can withdraw it at any time.

A chaperone reads only. They cannot send messages, start calls, or see anything beyond the conversation they were invited to. Declining an invitation is not the same as ending the match — the conversation carries on exactly as before.

End it cleanly if you need to

You can unmatch anyone, at any point, without explanation. The conversation leaves both of your lists straight away and neither of you can send anything further. If you unmatch someone, you can restore the match later if you change your mind; the other person cannot restore it unilaterally, because unmatching is often how someone quietly steps away, and that decision should hold.

Separately from unmatching, you can report a member for abuse or for poor communication. That goes to a human moderator. Read the trust and safety policy.

Beyond the match

Amana includes a directory of participating mosques and their marriage-related services, marriage courses and events they are running, and Imams and counsellors offering premarital guidance, family mediation and marriage advice. You contact counsellors directly — Amana does not sit in the middle of that.

There is also a private nikah checklist covering documents, wali, witnesses, venue and preparation, which only you can see.

Your data, on your terms

From your profile you can export everything Amana holds about you as a file, or delete your account. Both work immediately, from inside the app.

Deleting removes your personal details, your photos, your voice and video recordings and your verification submissions. Messages you have already sent stay visible to the person you sent them to, shown as coming from a deleted member, and our moderation records are kept. The Privacy Policy explains exactly what is removed and what is retained, and why.