Alovoa

Alovoa aims to be the first widespread free and open-source dating web platform.

What makes Alovoa different from other platforms?

• No ads
• No selling of your data
• No paid features (no "pay super-likes", "pay to swipe", "pay to view profile" or "pay to start a chat")
• No unsecure servers
• No closed-source libraries
• No seeing people you don't want to see with advanced filters
• Your most private data is securely encrypted

Mobile apps

Alovoa is also available as a mobile app. Check out Android app source code repo, download an app on F-Droid or Google Play

Contribute

• Tell your friends about it and share on social media! This is the best way to make it grow.
• Improve the project by posting in Issues and make a PR upon Issue discussion.
• Translate this project into your preferred language on Weblate

Donate

Like this project? Consider making a donation.

How to build

• Install OpenJDK 17
• Install maven: https://maven.apache.org/install.html
• Setup a database (MariaDB is officially supported)
• Setup an email server or use an existing one (any provider with IMAP support should work)
• Enter credentials for database server, email server and encryption keys in application.properties
• Execute "mvn install" in the root folder

Or you can use Docker and Docker compose. To bring up the server, after setting the required values in src/main/resources/application.properties you can just run below commands:

docker-compose build
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose logs -f

Debugging

• Spring Tool Suite / IntelliJ is recommended for debugging
• Install lombok for your IDE (Not needed for IntelliJ)

Documentation:

• Please read the DOCUMENTATION.md

Licenses:

• All code is licensed under the AGPLv3 license, unless stated otherwise.
• All images are proprietary, unless stated otherwise.
• Third-party web libraries can be found under resources/css/lib and resources/js/lib and have their own license.
• Third-party Java libraries can be found in the pom.xml and have their own license.