Keeper is a matchmaking company for people who want to marry. You answer a long intake questionnaire, well over a hundred questions covering values, goals, work, income and schooling. Nobody browses anybody. When Keeper picks a pair, the woman is sent a written profile of the man, and only if she says yes does he see hers. Women join for nothing. Men pay per introduction, and sign a contract for a much larger sum that comes due if the introduction turns into a marriage. Keeper says over 1.6 million people have joined and that one in ten first meetings ends in marriage.
Notapub covers the same ground with the meter switched off. You say the thing you want, in a sentence, in your own words. People who fit it reach you. There is no questionnaire, no fee, and no requirement that the person you are looking for be a spouse.
This is not a pub. Ages 13+.
Keeper's questionnaire is the product. It is how a stranger gets compressed into something comparable, and it is why the intake takes a sitting rather than a minute. The cost of that is everything the form did not think to ask. If what actually matters to you is that they have read Middlemarch twice, or that they are also raising a kid alone, or that they want to move back to Lagos in three years, the form has no box for it.
Notapub has no form. You write the sentence, including the odd part, and the odd part is the part that does the work. Nothing gets rounded off to fit a field.
Keeper's pricing is the sharpest difference between the two. Men pay a fee for each introduction, priced in the thousands, and commit to a success fee an order of magnitude larger if it leads to marriage. Keeper is open that this is deliberate: it wants to be paid when the thing works, not for keeping you subscribed while it does not.
That is a defensible model and it prices out most people. Notapub costs nothing, for anyone, and there is no cap on how many people you are put in front of. The gap here is not a discount. It is the difference between four figures per introduction and zero.
Keeper removes people who are not looking to marry. That focus is the reason it works for the people it works for, and it is also the whole boundary of the thing. It has nothing to say about the other people you need.
Notapub does not sort your reasons. The same sentence-and-see-who-comes mechanic finds a cofounder, a person who has done the visa you are about to do, someone to run with on Saturday, a buyer for the piano. If one of the people who turns up matters more than the others, that is left to you and it is not announced.
Keeper's gate is one-directional by design. The woman sees a written profile first and the man waits. It cuts down on the volume of unwanted attention, which is the problem it was built to solve, and it means you spend a lot of the process waiting on a decision you cannot see.
On Notapub both people can see the person and reach them. There is nobody in the middle holding the introduction.
It is free, and it does the part Keeper is built around: you say who you are looking for and people who fit it come to you. It is not a marriage service and it does not screen anyone for intent.
No. One sentence is a working start. You can add more later, or say it out loud on a call and never type anything.
No. There is no introduction fee, no success fee, and no subscription.