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Advanced Settings

A hidden page for managing the name database — load thousands of extra names or clean up unused ones.

Unlocking It

  1. Open the burger menu
  2. Tap "Built with ❤️ for future parents" at the bottom 5 times in a row (quickly — the counter resets after 2 seconds)
  3. Advanced appears in the menu

Burger menu with the hidden Advanced entry revealed

Loading More Names

Each country card shows how many names you have and a button to load the extended dataset — thousands more per country.

Advanced Settings page with per-country ingestion status

Names are downloaded, checked, and added with a live progress indicator. Keep using the app while it runs.

Pruning

Loaded too many? Prune Database deletes unused extended names while keeping everything that matters: liked names, matches, and the curated base set are never touched. It asks for confirmation — but once confirmed, it can't be undone.

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