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Find your people.

Heart for love, smile for friends. Tap one.

The friendship and dating app for Autistic, ADHD and all neurodivergent adults.

Get Hiki, freeFree to join. On iPhone and Android.

Why Hiki exists

Most apps want a version of you that small-talks on cue, likes loud bars and never mentions the lights.

Hiki was built by neurodivergent adults who got tired of performing. Here you say what you are looking for, and you are taken at your word.

Nobody sees a yes until there are two.

  1. You send a heart or a smile.

    A heart for love, a smile for friendship. They don’t know you sent it.

  2. They decide on their own.

    Everyone who likes you comes round to the front of your queue, so it happens fast. Still blind.

  3. Two yeses open a chat.

    Only a mutual match opens messages, and messaging your matches is free and unlimited.

Photo: two friends at an outdoor table, laughing at each other over their phones.

Three ways in. You pick the door.

Find love

Find a partner who understands and embraces every vibrant hue of your neurodivergent soul.

Send a heart from any part of a profile, with one custom first message. Free accounts get a few match requests a day, so every one is on purpose.

Hiki match screen showing Emily, 30, looking for love, with the heart button
A profile says what someone is looking for, up front.

Find friendship

A place where supportive connections are forged through shared experiences and understanding.

Send a smile instead of a heart. Set your match preferences to friendship only and nobody will read it as a date.

Hiki match screen showing Riley, 34, looking for friendship, holding a small dog
The smile button means friends. Nothing more is implied.

Find community

Understanding, connection and acceptance, where neurodivergent adults can be themselves.

A community feed sorted by category. Follow the categories you care about and unfollow the rest, so you only see what you want to see.

Hiki community feed with a post in the Literature and writing category
Circles and categories you choose, no algorithm picking for you.

Circles: rooms for your thing.

A Circle is a group started by a member, with its own posts, events and guidelines. Join as many as you like. Circles are free.

  • Public

    “Anyone can find this Circle.”

    Open to join, and shareable with a link.

  • Private

    “Discoverable, but requires approval.”

    You ask to join and the Circle decides. Members are chosen, not just let in.

  • Secret

    “The Circle is hidden.”

    Invite only. Share links are turned off, so it can’t leak.

A Private or Secret Circle can never be made public later. That’s for privacy, and it’s permanent.

How Circles work

What members say

“Finally a neurodivergent home:)”

Bibi, a Hiki member

Read every review
  • “In case you’re having a tough time one day making the app.. please know that your app made me feel less alone, less weird. More love, more happiness. I am so so grateful.”
    Curly S.
  • “I love this app and everyone I hope everyone is doing great I am learning so much about myself and talking with really cool people! Good job dev.”
    Eric
  • “I’m loving hiki so far. Thank you to all the teams that make it possible. I finally feel I have a social platform to be myself with like minded people. It feels like a cozy and weighted blanket &”
    @43nfree
  • “Highly recommend this app. Not just dating, but friendship and a safe place for discussing topics around autism.”
    Bearded Zombie
  • “I love what you have done with hiki and for the ASD community, and appreciate the work that went and continues to go into the site. You are very much appreciated! 😊”
    EJ
  • “In the nearly 2 years I’ve been on Hiki, they’ve made enormous strides forth. I’ve made many great long distance friends and a few relatively close on here. It means the world to me to be in such an accepting community with individuals I can relate to. Their admins and developers have always been helpful, friendly, and quick to respond. Keep up the great work!”
    Ryan

Safety isn’t a feeling. It’s a list.

Neurodivergent adults get targeted more than most. So here is exactly what Hiki does about it, in plain words.

  • A person reads every report.

    Some reports also trigger automatic checks, but a human on the moderation team reviews every one.

  • Fakes get stopped at the door.

    Screening looks for mock locations, masked IPs and reused photos. Flagged accounts can’t use Hiki until they pass ID verification.

  • Blocking is total.

    Block someone and the conversation disappears from both sides. Report and block from the “…” next to any name.

  • Adults only, zero tolerance.

    You must be 18. Harassment, ableism and predatory behaviour end in a ban, and where it’s warranted, a report to the authorities.

  • No ads. No AI. No data sales.

    Hiki is paid for by subscriptions. Your attention and your data are not the product, and never have been.

  • The moderators are neurodivergent too.

    Everyone on the team is an ND adult, working from different parts of the world so someone is around to answer.

Read the full safety page, with support lines

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Photo: Paff Evara / Getty Images

#AutisticOutLoud

Hiki × Getty Images

In media, autistic people were mostly shown as children, as savants, or as white men. For #AutisticOutLoud, Hiki and Getty Images put ten autistic photographers and filmmakers behind the camera. Their pictures now sit in Getty’s Disability Collection and on Unsplash, where publishers around the world can license them.

Read the announcement

Premium shouldn’t depend on your bank balance.

Over 50% off Hiki Premium, forever.

No applications. No surveys. No proof. You know what you need.

How Hiki for Everyone works

  • You identify as BIPOC or 2SLGBTQIA+
  • You are unemployed or underemployed, or finding and keeping work has been hard
  • You receive disability benefits or have a support worker
  • You live with family or roommates
  • You are raising disabled children

Your people are already here.

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