canada
A dating app for people starting from scratch.
Verified profiles and stated intent — for a country where an enormous number of people are rebuilding a social circle in a city they only just arrived in.
A country of recent arrivals
Canada takes in a very large number of new permanent residents every year, and they land overwhelmingly in a handful of cities. Add internal moves for work and study and you get a striking situation: in Toronto or Vancouver, a substantial share of the people around you have been there under five years and are building a social life from nothing.
Meeting people in that position is a different problem from dating where you grew up. There are no mutual friends to make an introduction, and nobody to quietly tell you whether someone is trustworthy.
What Ember offers that situation
- "New friends" is a legitimate answer to what you're looking for, displayed on your profile rather than hinted at.
- Mandatory photo and identity verification — which counts for more when you have no shared social graph to rely on.
- Matches surface what you have in common, so a first message isn't a cold open.
- A small daily set of people rather than an infinite deck.
- Free to match and chat, in every city where Ember operates.
Density decides where we open
A dating app is only useful where enough people are on it. Spreading thinly across every town would produce an app that technically works nationwide and actually works nowhere, so we open city by city and make each one dense before moving on.
Which is a practical reason to join the waitlist even if Ember isn’t in your city yet: waitlist numbers are how we decide the order. Signing up from a smaller centre is a vote for it.
Common questions
Is Ember available in Canada?
Ember opens in Bengaluru first, with other markets including Canada following shortly after. Join the waitlist and we'll notify you as soon as it's live near you.
I recently moved to Canada. Is Ember useful for meeting people?
Yes — that's a big part of who it's built for. You can set what you're looking for to include new friends rather than only dating, and that shows on your profile so nobody has to guess.
Does Ember work outside the biggest cities?
Discover sorts by distance, so it works best where there's density — Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa first. Joining the waitlist from a smaller centre helps us see where to open next.
What does Ember cost in Canada?
Matching, chat and filters are free forever. Premium is optional and priced in Canadian dollars, and waitlist members get 3 months of Premium free.
Join the Ember waitlist
Free to join, and everyone on the waitlist gets 3 months of Ember Premium free when we open in their city.
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