Comparison

Ximo vs Dating Counselor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Ximo

This app connects you with people nearby for chatting, meeting, or finding a match. It prioritizes privacy with verified profiles and customizable visibility settings for your photos and information. Users have full control over how their profile appears to others.

Highlights
  • Connect with people nearby
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Trust-based communication
  • Profile verification
  • Public or Private profile options
  • Photo sharing control
Features
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Ximo is a dating app built with the needs of gay men in mind. XImo lets you find and connect with people nearby who are interested in chatting, meeting up, making friends, finding their next great match, or more. We created a new trust-based mechanism for communication and sharing information, and designed Ximo so that everyone has fair and equal access to information on the app. Because of our high standards for profile-verification, you can feel safe and certain that people you meet on Ximo have valid profiles with real names and identities. In exchange for our policy of total information transparency, we give users full control over how their profile appears to others. How Can I Control How My Profile Appears to Others on Ximo? • Everyone can choose between a Public Profile or a Private Profile. • Choose a Public Profile if you want to make your photo visible to everyone. • Choose a Private Profile if you only want to share your photo with specific people. Your Profile Picture will appear hidden to everyone else. How Does Information Fairness on Ximo Work? • You can ask a Private Profile to unlock their photo with the simple press of a button. • You can unlock your Private Profile to anyone with the simple press of a button too. • Your Private Photo is never shared with anyone else unless they agree to share their photo in exchange! How Does Profile Verification Work on Ximo? We thought carefully about balancing our users' needs for privacy and anonymity with the importance of building a trusted online community of real people. We require that everyone verify their first name with a third-party social platform. We do not access additional information about you such as your personal photos, who your friends are, or any other information. 
Just your first name. That’s it! If you don’t have access to a social media account, you can sign up with a phone number (US only) to complete our verification process. To give you the privacy and freedom to control the anonymity of your profile, you can choose to unlink any social network from your Ximo profile once you verify your First Name. You can then manually add in your age and a photo to your profile, which you can choose to hide from anyone on Ximo. We know that people are looking for a safe and trustworthy way to date and meet others online, and that's why we built Ximo with these privacy and security standards in mind. So download Ximo today to discover your next great match, and to learn more about how we are setting standards for privacy and security in the online dating space. Ximo is mad-fun too!

About

Dating Counselor

Features
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Stop wondering if it's you. Find out. Dating Counselor is the brutally honest friend who tells you the truth about your matches and about yourself. Before and after every date, it asks the questions a best friend, a protective parent, a sharp detective, and a level-headed psychologist would ask. Then it cross-references your answers against the goals and dealbreakers YOU set, and gives you a clear, honest read. No swiping. No profiles to browse. This isn't another dating app; it's the counselor you talk to about the dating apps. HOW IT WORKS Build your blueprint: a private profile of your goals, your attachment style, your absolute dealbreakers, and the traps you keep falling into. Audit your match: answer built-in questions while you're still texting, and again after you've met in person. Read the verdict: a clear flag score, your green and red flags spelled out, the odds they'll ghost you, and a deep analysis that connects this match to every pattern you've shown before. FOUR VOICES, ONE HONEST ANSWER • The Friend asks if you actually had fun, or just liked having a date. • The Mother notices how they treated the waiter, and whether you could be yourself. • The Detective checks whether their story adds up and spots quiet safety flags. • The Psychologist reads for control, love-bombing, and whether you felt calm or anxious. WHAT IT CATCHES • Dealbreaker hard-stops the moment a match crosses a line you drew yourself • Pattern reports across every match: the player magnet, the breadcrumb habit, the regret loop • The Accountability Mirror: it grades YOU too. If you were the problem, it says so, kindly. • After-date debriefs that turn a confusing night into clarity THE GHOST FORECAST Will they disappear on you? Now you get a number. It calculates the odds this match ghosts you and shows the signals behind it. Not a crystal ball, just the hunch you already had, made explicit. SHARE THE VERDICT, NOT THEIR NAME Turn any audit into an animated reveal card: the score counts up, and your match gets a codename built from their worst answers, "Crypto Scammer," "Human Podcast." Their real name and photo never leave your phone. Your friends get the story. Nobody gets doxxed. FOR EVERYONE WHO DATES Built for all orientations and identities. Whether you're straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, queer, trans, or non-binary, the questions adapt to you, with dedicated sections for LGBTQ+ realities: outness, discretion, safety, fetishization, and T4T dynamics. Everyone deserves a counselor in their corner. JUGGLING THREE PEOPLE? STOP MIXING THEM UP "Wait, is she the one who's vegetarian, or was that the guy from Hinge? Did I already ask him where he grew up?" When you're dating more than one person, the details blur. You forget who works where, who has the dog, who you can't take for sushi. One slip and a promising match feels like you weren't listening, because you weren't, you just couldn't remember. Every match gets a private Dossier: their real name, job, city, family, hobbies, dietary quirks, key stories they told you, and topics to avoid. Add a photo so faces never blur. Open it before a date and walk in fully briefed, like the kind of person who remembers everything. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your love life is nobody's business but yours. • No account, no sign-up, no profile of you • No cloud, your data never leaves your phone • No ads, no tracking, no third parties, ever Everything runs on your device, even in airplane mode. We couldn't read your data if we tried. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Audit your first match free. Unlock unlimited audits and full pattern reports with a single one-time purchase, no subscription, ever. A NOTE ON SAFETY No score matters more than your safety. If someone threatens, pressures, or hurts you, that's not a red flag to weigh; it's a reason to get help, and Dating Counselor will always tell you so. Ready to stop dating in the dark? Your counselor is waiting.

Screenshots

Ximo4 screens
Dating Counselor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ximo at 13.0 against Dating Counselor's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ximo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dating Counselor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Ximo versus Dating Counselor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXimoDating Counselor
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB7 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAnimata Inc.Antonio De Moraes Barros Filho

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ximo

One-time1
  • SparkEngine$1.99
1 purchases

Dating Counselor

One-time1
  • Dating Counselor$4.99

Questions

Is Ximo free?
Ximo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dating Counselor free?
Dating Counselor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ximo or Dating Counselor have ads?
Neither Ximo nor Dating Counselor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ximo or Dating Counselor?
Ximo ships an update weekly, and Dating Counselor weekly. Most recently, Ximo was updated on October 9, 2026 and Dating Counselor on October 11, 2026.

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