The real world, unlocked.
Walk into a bar, café, or restaurant — and instantly join a live chat with everyone who's actually there. Meet real people at real places. No swipes. No bots. Just the room you're standing in.
Dating apps sold you strangers. Speakeazy gives you the room.
Every venue in Speakeazy is a live, location-gated chatroom. When you walk in, you join. When you leave, your slice of the conversation fades with you. It's the group text for the place you're standing in — the flirt across the bar, the tip about the best table, the "wait, are you at Bleacher too?" moment — turned into a thing that just exists.
We built Speakeazy because the internet forgot how to be a place. This fixes that.
Show up, get in
Cross the 100m geofence and the room opens. No matching, no invites, no gatekeeping — presence is the invitation.
Real names, real faces
Sign in with Apple or Google, verify your phone, add your ID. The room stays real because everyone in it is.
Resets every 24 hours
Tonight's conversation belongs to tonight. Come back tomorrow to a fresh room, a fresh crowd, a fresh chance.
Three taps from your phone to a real conversation.
Open the app, see the room around you
Discover swipes through venues near you, ranked by proximity. Every card is a real bar, café, or restaurant with a live chat you can join the second you walk in.
Cross the geofence, unlock the chat
100 meters is the door. Step inside and you're in the room — full message thread, photo strip from tonight, roster of everyone else who's here.
Build your reputation. Earn your badges.
Show up. Contribute. Get rated Real Deal by verified users. Climb from Newcomer to Influencer and unlock badges that broadcast exactly who you are.
Real Deal Points. Your currency of showing up.
RDP is Speakeazy's reputation system. Every check-in, every photo, every rating from a verified user pushes you up the ladder. Six tiers, from Newcomer at zero to Influencer at 15,000 — and the higher you climb, the more your ratings count for others.
- Check in at a venuemax 5/day+5
- Check in at a favoritemax 3/day+10
- First-ever check in (pioneer)once per venue, forever+50
- Start a private chatmax 3/day+15
- Get rated “Real Deal”unlimited (30-day rater throttle)+25
- Post a photomax 3/day+3
- Post a videomax 2/day+5
- 7-day check-in streakrolling 7-day+20
- Verify your phoneone-time+25
- Verify your IDone-time+100
A rating from an Influencer is worth 2× a rating from a Local. The higher you climb, the more the room listens.
Wear who you are. Right on your profile.
Identity badges are yours to claim — Foodie, Engineer, Yogi, LGBTQ, Multi-Lingual, Dog Person. Status badges you earn: Verified, Founding Member, OG Original, Legend. Rare ones — Diamond Status, Royal Treatment — you unlock by climbing tiers.
Identity
45+Free to claim. Foodie, Chef, Athlete, LGBTQ, Democrat, Republican, Tech, Traveler, Vegan, Dog Person — say who you are, in one glance.
Status
12Earned. Verified, Founding Member, OG Original, Legend, Top Voted, Elite Club. Proof you were here first — and that the room noticed.
Rare
6Unlocked. Diamond Status, Platinum Member, VIP Gold, Royal Treatment, Real Deal All Points. Only for the top of the ladder.
Four checkpoints keep the room real.
- 1Apple or Google sign-inNo throwaway emails. Every account links to a real Apple ID or Google identity, tied to a real device.
- 2Phone verificationTwilio one-time code. +25 Real Deal Points on the spot. Bots stop here.
- 3Persona ID verificationOptional but strongly rewarded (+100 RDP + Verified badge). Required to post in 21+ bar chats. Persona checks a government ID against a live selfie.
- 4Real names, ratings, and reportsEvery user can rate anyone in their room Real Deal — or report abuse. Ratings from higher-tier users carry more weight. The community polices the room.
Ten rooms. One city. Every night.
We're launching with a hand-picked set of Boston venues — the best bars in Fenway and the South End, the cafés that never empty out, the restaurants where the crowd knows each other. Every neighborhood we expand into gets the same treatment.
Own a venue and want to be next? venues@speakeazysocial.com
Speakeazy isn't a social network. It's the room you're in.
Built for the way you actually go out.
Answers, straight.
Where does Speakeazy work?+
Do I have to be at the venue to chat?+
How long do messages last?+
Is it 21+?+
How do you keep it real?+
What are Real Deal Points?+
When can I download it?+
Get in on day one.
Speakeazy launches on the App Store this fall. Founding members get the Founding Member badge — permanent, non-transferable, forever visible on your profile. There are only ever going to be a few thousand of them.