With more than 60 million messages exchanged every week, the all-new SCRUFF 5 is the dating and social networking app of choice for a community of more than 8 million gay, bi, trans, and curious guys worldwide.
SCRUFF has the most guys you are into: guys next door, geeks, muscle guys, jocks, bears, college guys, military servicemen, chubs, rugged leather men, daddies, queer guys, and more.
Gay travel has been reinvented in version 5 with SCRUFF Venture. Venture lets you:
- Meet and make plans with fellow SCRUFF travelers to explore cities around the world--today or in the future
- List and browse rooms posted by other SCRUFFers from services like Airbnb & VRBO
- Chat with local SCRUFF Ambassadors to discover a city’s top spots
- Discover and experience the hottest events with the SCRUFFiest guys using the redesigned SCRUFF Events
Download SCRUFF for FREE and start checking out guys immediately on the most advanced and reliable gay app, newly redesigned for iOS 9. SCRUFF lets you:
- Exchange unlimited video, photo, and text messages
- View guys both near you and in cities around the world
- Flirt with guys you like with a Woof
- Find exactly the guys you are into using our powerful search and filters
- Meet guys open to dates and relationships using SCRUFF Match
- Reveal more by sharing and receiving private photo albums
- Track who is interested in you by checking who has viewed and Woof’d you
- Browse the most Woof’d guys on SCRUFF directly from the Global grid
- Find guys later by adding them to your Favorites
- Express yourself even further with new profile details: Sex Preferences, Safer-Sex Practices, new relationship types, and new communities
- See clearer photos without exhausting your data plan with Network-Adaptive Photo Quality
- Tell other SCRUFFers when you’ll be in their city by creating trips in SCRUFF Venture
- Show off your Airbnb or VRBO room by creating a listing in SCRUFF Venture
- Represent your city by helping travelers as a SCRUFF Ambassador
Supercharge SCRUFF by going Pro--subscribe to unlock the most powerful features of any social app for iOS 9. With SCRUFF Pro you can:
- View up to 1,000 guys nearby and in more than 10 other grids
- Make room for more guys by disabling ads
- Find the guys you like with unlimited filters--age, ethnicity, height/weight, relationship status, sexual preferences, and more
- Access complete message histories and all prior conversations
- Share and receive an unlimited number of private albums, with full access to all photos and videos
- Put the guys you like on top with the new grid sorting feature. Reorder grids by date, distance, and online status
- Send your favorite photos and videos faster with Recent Images
- Browse profiles anonymously by enabling Stealth
- Play and archive videos up to 1 minute long
- Add up to 25,000 favorites, organized in up to 100 customizable folders
- Make sure your sleep isn’t disturbed by incoming messages by enabling Overnight mode
- Secure your SCRUFF by enabling Touch ID at launch
- Unsend messages (in case you change your mind)
- Add custom profile notes about guys you like
...and much more!
And one more thing... We hope you have such a great experience that you never need support--but we’re here if you do. You can now submit support requests, and view their status and our agents’ responses without having to leave SCRUFF.
New & Improved in SCRUFF 5
Updated Look & Feel – SCRUFF is now visually consistent with iOS 9 design aesthetics for a truly platform-authentic experience
SCRUFF Venture – When you tap on the Venture tab, you will see a searchable list of member activity in cities around the world
- Who is online in the city right now
- Who is visiting now and who is visiting soon
- Who has volunteered to be an Ambassador
- What events are coming up and who’s attending
- What Airbnb and VRBO rooms listed by SCRUFF members are available
SCRUFF Support Now In-App – We hope you have such a great experience that you never need support--but we’re here if you do. You can now submit support requests, and view their status and our agents’ responses without having to leave SCRUFF.
New Search Grid – Favorites have been relocated to the star icon in the top row.
Re-designed Global Grid
Simplified Nearby Grid – Pro members can optionally toggle a “Right Now Only” view. Bonus: Free members get +50 guys in Nearby grid for completing profile details.
Re-designed Messages Grid
- Tap-and-hold thumbnails to go directly to chat (from all grids)
- Mark All Unread Conversations as Read (top-right of Unread full-screen grid) (Pro)
- Delete ALL Conversations (top-right of Recent full-screen grid) (Pro)
1,000 Guys (Pro) & Seamless Scrolling – Up to 1,000 guys in all major grids (up from 300). Free member grid limits remain unchanged. No more “Load More” actions.
Powerful Grid Sorting (Pro) – Sort most of the grids in SCRUFF not only by date, but also by distance and online status. These grids include:
- Unread Messages
- Recent (Read) Messages
- Received Private Albums / Sent Album Shares
- Favorites
- Woofs / Woof’d
- Viewers / Viewed
- Mutual Matches
- Event RSVPs
- SCRUFF Venture city locals, visitors, and ambassadors
Profile View Improvements
- Tap and briefly hold woof button to bypass tedious “Confirm Woof” message
- Matchstick indicator will now appear when profile is a match
- Profile view now respects iOS Dynamic Type accessibility settings
Chat Improvements
- Improved quality of photos sent and received in chat
- Videos can now be up to 1 minute long and up to 5MB large (Pro)
- Video playback area increased (Pro)
- Chat now respects iOS Dynamic Text accessibility settings
- SCRUFF now remembers when you have loaded previous messages and stores them for the length of the session (Pro)
Re-designed Event List & Event Details
- Featured events get new hero image treatment and current RSVP count
- Hierarchical event listings (large events with discrete sub-events) now supported
Private Album / Archive Improvements
- New gallery-style album view
- “To Front” and “To Back” controls improve photo reordering
- Videos can now be up to 1 minute long and up to 5MB
- Larger Video playback (Pro)
- Significantly Faster Sending photos in chat from Archive albums
New Profile Fields & Values
- Sex Preference – Top, Bottom, Versatile, Oral Only, Fetish, No Sex
- Safer-Sex Practices – Condoms, PrEP, Treatment as Prevention
- New Relationship Status – Polyamorous Relationship
- New Communities – Queer, Chub, Guy Next Door, Drag, and Bisexual
New App Preferences & Privacy Settings
- Larger Grid Thumbnails (iPhone Only, Pro)
- Network-Adaptive Photo Quality
- Configurable Photo Quality (Pro)
- Travel (Airplane) indicator badge now available to all members (previously Pro-only)
- Auto-Trip Creation
- Lock SCRUFF with Touch ID (Pro)
Improved iPad Experience
…And the Kitchen Sink
- Block limit increased to 2,000 (Pro)
- Respond to incoming messages from push notifications or iOS lock screen
- Configurable search logic (AND vs. OR) on certain multi-select profile fields (Pro)
- Optimized scaling of keyboard and other screen elements for iPhone 6+
- Streamlined first-run experience
- Improved profile photo upload cropping tool guides
- Improved resilience to network disruptions
- Hundreds of other under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes.
Woof!