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Ark - Christian Dating App

Meet Singles. Chat with Faith.

Ark Dating
No findings published
App Store rating4.6★9.4K ratings
Google Play rating4.3★4.7K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age17+Store age rating
Size141 MBiPhone download
CategorySocial
DeveloperArk Dating

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 11 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 2.4.10 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-11 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.4.12, updated 2026-10-15.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.4.10, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Date Christians with Ark—the unapologetically Christian dating app made by Christians, for single Christian men and women of all denominations.

Find meaningful, faith-filled relationships without endless swiping, awkward small talk, or ghosting—it's time to board the Ark.

REAL PEOPLE, BIBLE VERIFIED

• No catfish, no creeps—all profiles are Bible Verified with AI and human review, so you know every match is legit.

SWIPE WITH PURPOSE

• Swipe up to like, send a Note to leave a thoughtful impression, or swipe down to move on—because every swipe matters on Ark.

UNAPOLOGETICALLY CHRISTIAN MATCHES

• Match based on denomination, church attendance, marital history, and family planning goals.

CHAT FOR FREE

• Send unlimited messages to turn online matches into real-life dates.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 546 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

546 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

546 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

I thought this app would be different, but it's JUST like the others. You're required to purchase the "premium" version just so you can look at the profiles that have liked you, and set specific filters. These features should not be…

1★ · Google Play · 2025-11-20

after signing up and completing everything I learned to find a godly relationship behind a paywall. I can't look up my state or denomination. it's all $30 a month . I hate dating apps. I hate this app. I hate paywalls!!!!!! let me find…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-08-17

yeah it's free to download but you got to pay to do anything else outside of just like someone I'll pass

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-08

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 11 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 2.4.10 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-11 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 2.4.12, updated 2026-10-15.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.4.10, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 2.4.12 · 2026-10-15
Updated to support Liquid Glass and other bug fixes and improvements.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 2.4.12 · 2026-10-15
Updated to support Liquid Glass and other bug fixes and improvements.
Version 2.4.10 · 2026-10-06
Bug fixes and app improvements.
Version 2.4.8 · 2026-10-01
Bug fixes and app improvements.

Google Play

Version 1.0.1122 · 2026-09-29

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.0.1073 · 2026-08-21

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 1.0.1063 · 2026-08-12

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
ark-apple-1671028117
Assessment date
11 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
546
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-11 from 546 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-11 Version analyzed: 2.4.103 independent signals546 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store · Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.57 ★ · 9,363 ratings
Version
2.4.12
Updated
15 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
17+
Size
141 MB
Open in App Store

Google Play

Store rating
4.32 ★ · 4,717 ratings
Version
1.0.1122
Updated
29 Sep 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
17+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Ark Dating
Category
Social
Listing price
Free

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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