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Featured in a recent Yahoo! article about hookup apps, Coffee Meets Bagel is an interesting take on dating apps. Like many other apps on this list, your potential matches are based on your Facebook connections. Each day at noon, the app “serves up” a potential match. You have 24 hours to indicate your interest, and make plans to meet up.
According to LA Weekly, “Coffee Meets Bagel’s users skew white, Asian, Jewish and educated…Only 17 percent of the site’s 60,000 or so users are not white, Jewish or Asian.” If that’s a demographic that appeals to you, then this app is likely to be a good fit.
Download this app for iPhone.
Pros:
Slower pace of the app gives you time to do some digging about your matchFreeHas been featured on Today Show, NYTimes, Marie Claire, TIME, The New Yorker, Glamour, Washington Post, and moreNo randosDoesn’t post to FacebookCons:
Weird nameDoes not appear to be available for Android devices at this timeLimited matchingIf you’ve already tapped your Facebook friends’ friends as a dating pool, this app may not introduce you to anyone newSeriously, referring to matches as “bagels” is kinda out there for some people5. AsianDate
Download this app for Android.
Pros:
Free downloadCommunicate via e-mail or live, real-time text chatBrowse profiles, photos, and interviews for freeVideo chat through CamShareOnly requires Android 2.3 and upCons:
Does not appear to be available for iOS at this timeOnly appeals to a very specific type of userUsers have reported freezesCredit system a turn-off for some usersAt least one user claims to have spotted a profile with a woman wearing a wedding ringWant to learn an Asian language so you can chat with your new sweetheart? Check out these great language learning tools.