Questions about how Lonely Radish works?

Lonely Radish is for adults aged 18 or over who would like to meet someone new over a casual activity in a public place.

We’ll ask for some basic details, three activities, an approximate UK location and one clear profile photo. Extra photos, detailed dating preferences and regular availability are optional and can be added later. We never ask for your home address.

Having an activity in mind makes it easier to suggest a first date. Sharing when you’re usually free also helps someone choose a time that might actually work. You can change both later.

You can show interest in up to five people each day. The idea is to choose people you’re genuinely curious about and helping with cutting out the noise.

The person you choose can see your interest and decide whether to accept or pass. If you’ve both independently shown interest, you’ll match automatically.

Someone has 14 days to respond to your interest. You can take it back before they accept it. If there is no response, it closes quietly without sending either person an alert. Your histories explain whether you were still waiting, took it back or reached the end of the 14 days. Once an interest closes, it cannot be sent again to the same person.

A smaller group makes each decision easier. You see the five oldest interests first; when you accept or pass on someone, the next waiting person appears. Each interest stays open for up to 14 days, and your profile can continue receiving new interest while you decide.

Everyone can have up to five active matches. Each active connection uses one space throughout matching, planning and a confirmed date; those stages do not use separate spaces. A waiting match does not count until you activate it. Paying never changes your visibility, ranking or ability to meet and make a plan.

Yes. Turn on “Only people I choose” in your account controls. You can browse normally, but your profile appears only after you show interest in someone. Existing interests, matches and plans keep working. This privacy option is available to everyone and is separate from pausing your profile.

You create a new connection and can start making a date plan. If you had already chosen each other, the connection happens automatically.

When you accept someone’s interest, take a moment to act on that match before accepting another. Start making a plan, or close the match if you change your mind. This rule applies one match at a time; it is not a daily or lifetime limit, and mutual matches are unaffected.

If either person’s connection list is full, the new connection waits until you both have room. It stays visible under “Waiting to start” and does not use an active space.

Yes. Removing a match ends the connection. If you ended it, you may later send one respectful note and ask to reconnect once. The other person does not have to respond or accept. If they ended it, you cannot reopen it from your side. Blocking goes further: neither of you will be shown to the other while the block remains in place.

One person suggests what to do, a time and a public place to meet. The other can accept, decline or suggest something different. It only becomes a confirmed date when you both agree.

Your original date stays confirmed while the other person considers the new suggestion. It changes only if they accept the replacement.

Rescheduling says “I still want to meet, but can we change the plan?” Cancelling ends the date and tells the other person straight away. You’ll remain matched, so you can make another plan later if you both want to.

No. Use “Propose a different date” instead. Your existing plan will stay visible until the other person accepts the change, so there is no confusion about when or where you’re meeting.

Yes. We can remind you before a confirmed date and ask whether you’re still going. You can manage email notifications from your account.

No. You can make and manage the whole plan inside Lonely Radish. If you do add contact details, you choose whether to share them with active matches. Never put private contact details or a home address in the venue fields.

Choose somewhere public and easy to recognise. Add the entrance, station exit or nearby landmark if that will help you find each other.

You can block or report someone from their profile. Blocking stops further contact, while a report goes to the moderation team. If their profile is no longer available, contact support and include any details you have. Lonely Radish is not an emergency service.

First, we privately ask whether the date happened. We then ask whether you would like another date. Your choice and optional note stay hidden until both people answer, so neither person is influenced by the other. If you both choose another date, the connection stays open; if either person chooses no, it closes. Cancelling in advance is treated differently from not turning up.