Who we are, and why Myria.

About the founders

We got tired of waiting for someone else to build it.

Myria was started by a group of people who were exhausted by the status quo of "dating" apps. The mainstream ones assume everyone wants the same thing. The few built for alternative relationships, lifestyles and kinds of connection have never been good enough.

The options we found were either a money grab or extremely poorly built, and sometimes both. Essentials sat behind paywalls. Features broke, profiles went stale, and the people we wanted to meet were buried under the people who wanted our money.

So we're building the app we wanted to use: one that's built with care, that charges only for genuine extras, and that treats every kind of connection as worth finding.

The name comes from the Greek myrioi, "ten thousand", which came to mean countless. It is the same root as the English word myriad.

Most apps for meeting people are built around one endpoint, and then you delete the app. Our lives don't run on one connection. They hold friends, partners, chosen family and the communities around them. Myria is named for all of them at once.

It is also a quiet name. On a home screen, in the app switcher or in a notification, Myria reads as an ordinary app.

That was a requirement. Who you connect with is yours to share, and your phone shouldn't share it for you.

The mark

Four circles, none of them merged.

The mark is four circles of different sizes, close enough to read as a group, and none of them overlap.

That is how Myria treats people. Everyone has their own account: there are no shared couple or group logins. Your consent, your boundaries and your blocks belong to you, whoever else you're connected to. Being connected to someone gives them no view into the rest of your life.