Find people to play sports or workout with in your area
- Schools and colleges can use this platform
- Makes use of group chats
- Uses matching algorithms
- 40 different sports available
- Doesn't show number of reservation slots available at a time
- No booking confirmation resulting in accidental bookings
- Pure luck finding an activity hosted near you also being an activity you enjoy
Make friends in your area and build a supportive community
- LGBTQI-friendly
- Supports the feminist movement, redefining gender & societal norms
- Users are forced to judge (swipe yes or no) each person, which doesn't make them feel good
- You have to initiate the conversation
- Relatively newer so has a small database
Spontaneous activities that get you out-and-about, without the planning headaches & fear of weirdos. Share experiences with young people.
- High-conversion to meeting in person
- Find locals in your area to do activities with
- Focused on the younger generation
- Limited to New Zealand until late 2022
- Small user base as it has recently launched
A subscription-based web & mobile app to meet new people through social, fitness and creative events, classes and workshops
- Collect badges on your profile
- Can host virtual events
- Only tackles Londoner's loneliness
- Have to pay to use it
- Extremely limited features in the low-tier (10 messages per month)
HEY! VINA IS Tinder for (girl) friends! Swipe right to meet new friends, join communities of people like you
- Interest-based matching algorithm
- Able to create events post meeting people
- Similar design to tinder makes usability high
- Communities
- Tinder-based can mean non-serious matches
- Low conversion to activity/event occurrence
- Limited to only women
The world's largest network for people living and working abroad (expats). Wherever you are in the world, meet people in your city, grow your network and share experiences with like-minded people.
- Huge database of users to meet, especially other expats
- In 420 cities around the world
- Local events run by ambassadors
- Very expensive to join
- Bad UX on the app
Meetup is a platform for finding and building local communities. People use Meetup to meet new people, learn new things, find support, get out of their comfort zones, and pursue their passions, together
- Well established brand and userbase
- Online + Local Events
- Large wealth of tools
- Any event (Professional, interest-based etc.)
- Fees for creating events
- Can be too formal, or expectation of larger groups
Being one tap away from discovering great people and great events, all over the world is central to the new app experience. PartyWith anyone, anywhere, anytime!
- Event-based
- You can see the number of people attending the event
- Create a group chat within the event
- Only focused on nightlife events
An app and website that allows you to make strictly platonic friends with people nearby who share your interests. No flirting allowed
- Find people who share interests and opinions with you
- Take questionnaires to refine your matches any way you'd like
- Kickstart conversations with those nearby
- No flirting, only friend-making
- High reply rates, can detect lulls in conversation
- 1-to-1 conversations only
- Only suggests to meet once there is a lull in conversation
Introducing you to women nearby who are at a similar stage in life, Peanut provides access to a community of women who are there to listen, share information and offer valuable advice. Whether it’s understanding IVF, adoption, pregnancy, first years or nursery and beyond, Peanut is a place to connect with women like you
- Meet people in your area tinder style
- Clear niche
- Strong remote community aspect facilitates with pods and groups
- Low conversion to meeting in person and making real friends of similar interest!
Get in touch with like-minded people based on your interests and hobbies. You get to know real people, unblind their profiles and make plans together
- You cannot search for any users or groups yourself, it automatically suggests interest groups for you
- Appearance will not be the main factor
- Users in your group will only have access to your individual profile when you both agree to unblnd
- They have ambassadors globally
- High churn rate, but acquisition and user activity is getting up
- No exploration of other events
- Can only make events through the group chat
Join communities based on your Interests, follow people who love what you love, and share anything from a simple question to a long post with videos and photos. You can even create your own communities if you want to get more specific about your interest
- Join various interest groups
- No opportunity to meet up with others
- Purely a chatting platform
- The same as joining Facebook Groups
We3 enables you to meet friends near you that fit your lifestyle, have lots of common interests and share your beliefs and values
- Forms tribes after submitting interests
- Focuses on groups of 3 reducing issues of safety and romantic connotations
- More genuine feel to conversations
- Meet global and local friends
- Smaller local user base to create tribes
- Fake profiles