Muslim marriage apps ranked for women: safety, wali and cost (2026)

By Mohanned Farahat, Founder · February 26, 2026 · Updated November 2, 2026

IslamicKnot is our own service · Prices and features checked September 28, 2026 · How we review

Muslim marriage apps ranked for women: safety, wali and cost (2026)

Muslim marriage apps differ most in who can reach a woman first. Ranked from her side, on who can message her, where her wali sits, who sees her photo, what is checked and what she pays: Pure Matrimony, then Muzz, Half Our Deen, SingleMuslim, Salams and Muslima. IslamicKnot, our own service, is listed apart: it has no private chat.

Looking for every platform side by side, including sites? Our comparison of the best Muslim marriage apps and sites has the full table. This page ranks the apps for women. Our row is labelled, and every other cell links to the platform’s own page.

Muslim marriage apps ranked for women

Pure Matrimony describes itself as “for practising single Muslims who are serious about their deen”. Photos are blurred by default; a selfie check is required within 48 hours; only Premium members can start a chat, and Premium members can add a wali to a Wali Chat (our Pure Matrimony review). Best for: a practising pool with a wali who can see the conversation. Why here: Its photos are blurred by default and only Premium members can start a chat, so it has the most built in for her.
Muzz (formerly Muzmatch) reports millions of members and has the most US App Store ratings of any app here (4.5 from 53,884). Matching, chat and video calls are free; Muzz Gold costs $9.99–$41.99 on the US App Store. Women can blur their photos, and Chaperone mode emails a wali weekly transcripts. Best for: a large pool, if you are comfortable with private chat. Our Muzz review and is Muzz halal? have the detail. Why here: It has the most tooling of the free apps, though private chat is the default.
Half Our Deen is US-based and paid-only — $19 a month, $39 a quarter or $84 a year — and lets parents or guardians manage a profile. Best for: a small paid pool, where the fee is the filter. Why here: A guardian can run the account, but every member pays and no ID check is described.
SingleMuslim, run by Single Muslim Ltd in the UK, is free to join; women get a complimentary membership and men pay for Gold (£29.99 a month on the UK App Store). Staff approve new and changed profiles. Best for: UK searchers who like the matrimonial-site format — more in our SingleMuslim review and UK singles guide. Why here: Women get a complimentary membership and staff approve profiles, but no wali feature is described.
Salams (formerly Minder) says it is part of the Match Group family. Free to match and chat, with Gold and Diamond tiers; verification is a video selfie. It documents no wali or chaperone feature. Best for: a second chat-app pool, with the family guardrails yours to build. See our Salams review and Muzz vs Salams. Why here: It verifies with a video selfie, but its own pages document no wali feature.
Muslima, run by Cupid Media, is a large international matrimonial site. Standard membership is free, but a free member can only reply to paying members, and hiding photos is for paying members. Its help centre describes no wali feature, and ID verification is optional. On Trustpilot it scores 1.8 from 855 reviews, with recent reviews reporting scammers and duplicate profiles. Best for: international reach, if you will vet carefully yourself. Our Muslima review has the detail. Why here: Its ID check is optional, hiding photos is for paying members, and it describes no wali feature.

IslamicKnot (ours) has no private chat. Men browse reviewed profiles anonymously, with photos blurred; the only contact a seeker can unlock is her wali’s number, and revert sisters are introduced in a conversation our team supervises. Listing and browsing are free; the person who asks to contact a family pays. Best for: families who want the wali to be the first contact. How it works. We don’t rank our own service.

How we compared them

Sources. Each platform’s own help pages, terms and app-store listings, checked on the date under each table. Prices are from the US App Store unless a cell says otherwise, because most platforms don’t publish a web price list.
What we ranked on. Five things, from a woman’s side: who can message her first, where her wali sits, who sees her photo, what is checked, and what she pays. The order is our judgement on those five points, not a score, and we run a competing service, so ours is listed apart. A fact we couldn’t verify on a platform’s own pages says “not stated”.
What we didn’t do. We didn’t invent ratings, count users for anyone, or rank by star reviews. Where a platform’s own pages disagree with each other, we say so.
Not included. Hawaya closed on 15 February 2023 (what to use instead). A few smaller newcomers aren’t here yet because we haven’t verified their facts.

The five wali-first questions, answered for each platform, are in the wali-first test.

Photos, verification and cost

Platform	Photos	Verification	Who pays	Price
Muzz	Women can blur or hide photos and reveal them per match; men cannot blur¹	Selfie check for everyone; optional ID check (blue tick)²	Anyone who upgrades to Gold (optional)³	Gold $9.99–$41.99 on the US App Store, weekly to annual plans⁴
Salams	Hide your profile (free) or use Stealth Mode (paid); screenshot stopper; no photo blur on its pages⁵	Video-selfie check; Face Check required in some regions⁶	Anyone who upgrades to Gold or Diamond (optional)⁷	$4.99–$34.99 in-app purchases on the US App Store (Gold $19.99–$34.99)⁸
Pure Matrimony	Blurred by default; shown only to members you agree to exchange photos with⁹	Selfie check within 48 hours; ID may be requested; a mobile number and an email are required at sign-up¹⁰^,11^,12	Premium members; free members cannot start or reply to messages¹³	US App Store: 1 month $13.99–$19.99, 12 months $99.99¹⁴
Muslima	Hiding photos is for paying members only; photos are reviewed¹⁵	Optional ID check; the terms say it does not routinely verify information¹⁶	Paying members (Gold, Platinum); Standard is free¹⁷	US App Store: Gold $19.99 (1 week) to $154.99 (12 months)¹⁸
SingleMuslim	Private gallery shared on request; every photo approved¹⁹	Staff approve new and changed profiles; no routine ID check²⁰^,21	Men, for Gold; women get a complimentary membership²²	UK App Store: £29.99 (1 month), £59.99 (6 months), £119.99 (12 months)²³
Half Our Deen	Photo can stay hidden until you choose to share it²⁴	Anti-scam technology flags profiles for review; no ID check described²⁵	Every member; there is no free tier²⁶	$19 a month, $39 a quarter or $84 a year²⁵
IslamicKnot (ours)	Blurred for everyone; a clear photo is shared only by her family, after contact²⁷	No selfie check, by design; guardians can verify their ID for a Verified badge, and a person reviews every profile²⁸	Listing and browsing are free; the person who asks to contact a family pays²⁹	US$5 per family contact, or US$12 for 3 and US$15 for 5, paid once.³⁰

Checked against each platform's own pages and store listings, on the date at the top of this page. Plans and prices change; the platform's own page is the final word.

Marriage app vs dating app: what actually differs

People search for “dating apps for Muslims” and “Islamic marriage apps” as if they were two categories. In practice, most of the platforms above describe themselves as marriage-focused but use a dating app’s mechanics: match or message, then talk privately. That isn’t a criticism — it is how the format works — but it decides where your family sits:

Chat-first (Muzz, Salams): you match and chat privately; the family is added if you choose. Muzz has a Chaperone mode that emails a wali weekly transcripts; Salams has no wali feature.
Matrimonial sites (Pure Matrimony, Muslima, SingleMuslim, Half Our Deen): detailed profiles and paid messaging. Pure Matrimony’s Wali Chat lets a wali view and join conversations (Premium); Half Our Deen lets parents or guardians manage a profile.
Wali-first (IslamicKnot): no private chat at all. The contact a man can unlock is her wali’s number, so the first conversation is with the family.

The question worth asking any platform: who does a man talk to first? We go deeper in Muslim matrimony site or marriage app? and online Muslim marriage, the halal way.

If that’s not your situation

For sisters who want no man able to message them privately: a wali-first site — that is IslamicKnot. Among the rest, Pure Matrimony lets you have brothers contact your wali directly and add him to a Wali Chat, and on Half Our Deen a wali or guardian can run your account — but both still have private messaging between members. The full women’s view is in the safest Muslim marriage apps for women.
For revert sisters with no wali: IslamicKnot supervises every introduction and never shares your number; arrange an imam-wali alongside it (revert sister marriage guide).
In the UK: SingleMuslim and Pure Matrimony are both UK-run. Our UK guide to Muslim marriage sites compares what is free and what is paid there.
In the US and Canada: Muzz and Salams have the biggest US App Store followings of the apps here, and Half Our Deen is a US paid-only option. Our guides to Muslim marriage in the USA and Muslim marriage in Canada cover the family side — and whether a nikah is legally binding there.
If you’re practising and tired of filtering: Pure Matrimony’s practising pool — or IslamicKnot, where the paid contact step filters before anyone reaches your family.
If you’re divorced, widowed or a mother: a profile that states your situation plainly, and a father or brother taking the first call — see Muslim marriage after divorce, widowhood or 30.

How to choose

Ask one question first: do you want to chat first, or involve the family first? If chat-first, the big apps give you reach — Muzz or Salams. If you want a practising pool with some family visibility, Pure Matrimony. If you want the traditional format, the matrimonial sites. If you have tried Muzz and it did not fit, our Muzz alternatives guide matches each option to the reason for switching. And if you want the family at the centre from the very first contact, that is what we built IslamicKnot to do. Every platform side by side, with sources, is on Muslim marriage apps compared.

More comparisons

In the UK: wali-first matrimonial sites in Britain, compared
In the US: what’s actually free on US Muslim marriage sites
For reverts in Canada: Muslim marriage platforms for reverts in Canada
On cost: what Muslim marriage apps cost, compared
On verification: what “verified” means on each site
On success claims: which app has the highest success rate?
Three apps side by side: Muzz vs SingleMuslim vs Salams

Searching in another language? We have an Arabic guide to choosing a serious Islamic marriage site — أفضل مواقع الزواج الإسلامي الجادة and an Indonesian guide to trustworthy online matchmaking services — biro jodoh online terpercaya. There is also one in French: comparatif des sites de rencontre musulmans.

Checked against each platform’s own help pages, terms and app-store listings, and Trustpilot. Sources are numbered under the table.

Frequently asked questions

How do you rank Muslim marriage apps for women?

On five things, from her side: who can message her first, where her wali sits, who sees her photo, what is checked, and what she pays. On those, Pure Matrimony comes first, then Muzz, Half Our Deen, SingleMuslim, Salams and Muslima. The order is our judgement, not a score. IslamicKnot, our own service, is listed apart: it has no private chat, and every enquiry goes to her wali.

Which Muslim marriage apps involve the wali?

Pure Matrimony lets a sister have brothers contact her wali directly, and a Premium member can add him to a Wali Chat; Half Our Deen lets a wali or guardian run the account, and its terms advise contacting her wali first; Muzz emails a wali weekly chat transcripts (Chaperone mode); Salams documents no wali feature. All of them still have private messaging. On IslamicKnot there is none: the contact a man unlocks is the wali himself.

Are Muslim marriage apps free for women?

Most are free to join. Muzz and Salams are free to match and chat, with paid tiers; Muslima and Pure Matrimony have free memberships but put replying or starting chats behind a paid plan; SingleMuslim gives women a complimentary membership, and men pay for Gold; Half Our Deen has no free tier. IslamicKnot is free for sisters and walis; browsing is free, and the person who asks to contact a family pays.

What is the difference between a Muslim marriage app and a dating app?

Purpose and structure. A dating app is built for open-ended matching and private chat, with marriage as one possible outcome. A marriage app declares marriage as the goal, but many still use the dating-app mechanics of matching and private chat. The real test is who you talk to first: the woman, privately, or her family.

Which app should a revert sister with no wali use?

Most platforms give reverts the standard experience. IslamicKnot has a dedicated path: a revert sister creates her own profile and every introduction happens in a conversation its team supervises, so she is never speaking with a man alone and her own number is never shared.