No one ever said that finding the perfect mate was easy, but the Internet has put almost every single person in your locality at your fingertips. Even a few years ago, Internet dating meant tethering yourself to your computer. Thanks to mobile devices and location-sensing apps, however, the whole world has become your playground for dates, hookups and long-term relationships. Still looking for a date for Valentine's Day? Check out our top 10 dating, hook-up and meet-up apps that will help you find the Right One... or the Right Now.
Passfeed
Passfeed is a very popular dating/hookup app in American colleges, through which you can share wonderful feeds and pictures in life instantly with people nearby, attracting like-minded people into dating. Meeting online, and dating offline. Passfeed gives you a perfect date, by creating a smooth bridge for strangers from online keyboard chatting to offline table dating. Now, go find a best date on Passfeed!
Product Features:
- Find new dates nearby through accurate real-time distance measurement.
- Timely contact each other with instant messages.
- Share your life with people around you. Express and show yourself to the world.
- Receive instant friends recommendations. Meeting new friends can’t never be so easy.
The Dating Ring
This one is a professional matchmaking service that takes you out of the dating situation. For the more busy daters out there, it’s a great resource, as they seem to take the work out if to for you and you can then relax and get set up on dates as opposed to doing the research up front.
The price is per date or monthly subscription.
Tinder
First off, Tinder the app requires you to have a Facebook account in order to enable it. Once enabled, you can set up a concise profile that consists of a 500-word bio and up to six images (we suggest always including a photo). You can also link your Tinder account to your Instagram, and include info about your employer and school. Discovery settings allow other users to find you, if desired, and set a few preferences regarding who you see. Then the real fun begins.
Tinder shows you a photo, name, and age. You can tap on the photo to see additional information regarding the person and Facebook friends you share (if any). You can also choose to swipe right (to like them), left (to pass), or up if you want use one of your precious “super likes” to show them you really really like them. If you and someone have both swiped right on one another, a screen will appear showing that you’ve matched and inviting you to send them a message. But most of the time, the Tinder experience will consist of flicking through profiles like channels on the television.
Bumble
From the minds of previous Tinder executives comes Bumble, a newly released iOS app that lets women run the show. Like Tinder, Bumble lets users swipe right to approve and left to decline. If two users mutually swipe each other right, they are allowed to chat, but here's the kicker: Only women can initiate the conversation, and they only have 24 hours to do so before the connection disappears.
Coffee Meets Bagel
For the purposes of this piece, I'm sticking close to apps that I know are effective, either from personal experience, second-hand experience or high ratings in general. I know one couple — in fact, I was just with them last night at a Julia Holter concert — that met on Coffee Meets Bagel. Its premise is super straightforward: Each day at noon, you get one — count them, one — match. Not three, not five, not a swipe-all-day-erry-day situation. One. If you like them, yay. If you don't, you can dial in your preferences and help the app send you a better match the following day.
