Nowadays, we have so little time for the important things in our lives because the work interferes considerably more with our intimate life. We are so busy that we even don’t have time for finding the right man or woman to start a relationship with. Another concerning fact is that studies have shown that Americans spend more than an hour a day on their intelligent phones and the British people do this even more frequently, something that takes away even more precious moments from our short days.
Due to the fact that we are so occupied and we spend so many time on our handheld devices, developers created some special applications that can help people meet new individuals or even find that special person that can change their lives. So, stay along and read the following article to discover the best dating apps that are available for your mobile devices.
Only The Best Dating Apps
Technology has progressed a lot and now men and women who are searching for their special person have forgotten about the traditional dating websites and started using the more versatile dating applications. Because of their portability and the possibility of searching for people that are in the immediate vicinity, mobile devices became a quicker and easier way for finding someone. Having this solution at their fingertips, more and more people are adopting this way as their best solution for meeting new persons.
Tinder
Tinder is the dating app that everyone is talking about, which was launched only in September and quickly became a must have between all the single women and men who are searching for a new relationship. On principle, the app is easy to use and has a very intuitive user interface so that everyone could easily carry it off well.
The app is amazingly fast and gives users a bunch of different choices from which they have to choose if somebody is hot or not, it’s like a Russian roulette that you can play it when you are waiting for the bus. Basically, Tinder finds your GPS location and searches for other users that match your profile and which are located in the nearest proximity. After you liked someone and the other did it too, you are able to start messaging and go on from there.
Before of everything, users have to link their Facebook profile to access their info, from which the will only show some basic information, like first name, age, some photos of your choice and other Facebook preferences. Also, when you will have a match, you can see if you have mutual friends with the other person. This thing can represent a big advantage, because you can require references from your friends about that person.
Note that the app can be very addictive, so use it wisely. If you are convinced that this app can help you in your quest of finding love, download it for free for you Android or iOS mobile device.
Skout
Skout is a global network for meeting new people that offers a wilderness of solutions for people to connect with others. You can simply create a new profile by writing your age, ethnicity, height, an About Me field and check a list of interests. When users decided on a particular person, they can see detailed profiles of them, like their status update, photos, the distance between you and them and other useful info.
On the home screen users will see a bunch of people who match with them, based on their search criteria, proximity, age, gender and other criteria. The really cool thing of the app, aside of the many people you can meet using it, are the swipe gestures which are used to pull in the other sides of the application. So, you’ve got all the functional links represented by some beautiful circular icons on the left side and the messaging part at the right side.
In addition, they have a points system that can be gained by downloading promoted apps or inviting Facebook friends to the this online network, which can be used to do different things, like sending virtual gifts to other people, seeing who visited your profile or who checked you as a favorite. From here you can also send winks, start a conversation and much more.
The app comes as a free version (Android and iOS operating systems) and as a paid one, without the ads. For the paid version, users have to pay $2.99 for the iOS and Android mobile devices.
OKCupid Dating
OKCupid is one of the best and easiest dating applications that we ever seen, because of its user interface and simplicity of navigating through its menu. The website was founded in 2005 and later, developers created applications for mobile devices with different operating systems. Thanks to its fast growing success, the company was bought in 2011 by Match.com and became one of the best solutions for people who look to meet potential partners and friends.
As opposed to other dating applications who are based on psychologist’s beliefs, this application uses very complex math algorithms to match users with other persons who have the same interests, making the whole experience to be different and more exact. Basically, when you create a new account you will be asked to answer to at least 25 questions in order to build your profile. The more you answer, the more your profile will correspond with the real you.
The entire thing goes like this: when you decide on a person, click on the “The Two Of Us” tab to compare your answer’s questions to their answers. If everything is good, the text will appear written with black, if not, the app will show their answers with pink. Developers also offer some funny tests, like “The Personality Defect Test”, “The Nerd? Geek?” and others, which will not affect your profile’s match percentages, but instead they will represent a good way of knowing new people.
The app is free for download and available for both Android and iOS devices. It’s good to know that OKCupid allows in-app purchases which will make you an A-list member letting you enjoy premium features, like browsing profiles invisibly, seeing who highly rated you and more. For this capability users have to pay $69.99 for a year.
Plenty Of Fish
Plenty Of Fish is the leading dating website, which in the past years turned its attention to their mobile application that had huge success since its launching. In this argument we can say that this service has over 55 million members that exchange more than 200 million messages per week.
The app has a beautifully designed interface that lets users browse other people’s profiles, send messages, chat, flirt and find people that are in their area at that particular moment. Furthermore, besides showing people who match your criteria, the app is able to suggest local places where you could meet up with that person. It has other features too, such as the ability to see who accessed your profile or to flirt with local users through the Meet Me feature.
Its developers say that daily 50 thousand single people are joining their network, so if you are interested to be one of them, download the free application for your Android or iOS smartphone. The app also permits users to enjoy some enhanced premium features, for which they have pay a fee of $89.99 for a year.
You should also take a look at Grindr, which was dubbed as the biggest community for guys, and its surrogate Blendr, which is available for straight people. Both of them let users to search for other people who are close to them, based on their GPS location, send private messages, access chat and see their photos.
If you are interested in downloading this widely used applications, you should know that they are available for free for multiple platforms. Go to the following links to download Grindr (for Android, iOS and BlackBerry devices) and Blendr (for Android and iOS operating systems).
Also, users are able to buy different premium features within the app, from which we can remind the Credit Packs (100 Credits for $1.99) and Super Powers (prices start from $9.99) that can be used to access different hidden features.
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