The Aduvee App, Without the App Store

There's no file to download. The Aduvee app is a web app: you open aduvee.cam in your phone browser, allow the camera, and you're matching. Want an icon? Add the page to your home screen and it opens full screen, just like something you got from a store.

So you won't find a store listing from us, and nothing needs an update before you can use it. New versions simply arrive the next time you open the page. If some site offers you an Aduvee installer file, close it. We don't publish one.

The browser tab and the home-screen icon are the same place with a different front door. Once you sign in, your follows, messages and coins belong to your account, so they're there whichever door you use. New here? The Aduvee home page gives the two-minute tour.

Picture someone on the bus home, thumb hovering over yet another app. The same three questions come up every time. Here are the answers for Aduvee.

Adding the icon takes less than a minute. Pick your phone below. Some phones also show an “Add Aduvee to Home Screen” banner on their own, and tapping Add there does the same job.

Everything on the website works from the icon, so the Aduvee icon on your home screen isn't a trimmed-down copy of anything. Here's what you get.

Very little. The same account, the same matches and the same buttons work on both. The differences are physical: a phone sits in your hand and goes wherever you go, while a laptop gives you a bigger picture that stays steady. Choose by where you're sitting tonight.

Both, in the same place. Tap Start random chat and Aduvee pairs you with whoever's free at that moment. If you'd rather choose, open Who's online, pick a face and tap Video chat on her profile. Mixing the two in one evening works fine.

Random is quick and a little chaotic in the good way. Part of the fun is not knowing who comes next. Picking is slower and more deliberate: you read the language tags, look at a couple of photos, and when you call a girl you picked, she's someone you already wanted to talk to.

The icon costs nothing and uses the same free start and coins as the website; what's free on Aduvee has the details.

Most of the time it's a permission. The first time you start a match, the browser asks to use your camera and microphone, and if you tapped Don't Allow, it remembers that answer. Open the site settings in your browser, set both back to Allow, then reload the page.

If another app is holding the camera, close it and try again. Still black? The contact page lists the quick fixes to try before writing to support.

Not in the mood to fix it right now? Switch the match to Audio or Text and come back to video later.

One more thing worth knowing: the icon keeps the browser's permissions. If you allowed the camera in Safari or Chrome, the home-screen version remembers that, and if you blocked it there, you fix it in that same browser's settings rather than in your phone's app list.