Americans now spend an average of an hour a day on smartphones according to Experian, while Brits are passing more time with their mobile devices than their partners, a study by British cell Dienstleistung 02 discovered.

Bei the U.S., smartphone users spend 16% of their time on social networking, 20% texting and 9% emailing. Our palms are increasingly glued to iPhones and Androids — we use our phones to surf the web, watch videos and read. Now more and more users are turning to apps to find A rendezvous.

Gallery: 5 Dating Apps To Help You Find Love

One of the most widely known free dating apps, Grindr, is used by over six million homosexuell, bisexual, and bi-curious men in 192 countries. Edv offers “location-based social networkingVoraussetzung which lets users search for nearby users and chat with them. Some dismiss Grindr and its heterosexual counterpart, Blendr, as mere hook up apps, but the decision on how to use these platforms is entirely hinein the hands of the Endbenutzer. Weltgesundheitsorganisation knows where you might find loveWirkungsgrad

Indeed, dating apps are now providing increasingly specific matches: Just Salad, A new york Speisewirtschaft, has launched an app which pairs MГ¶glichkeit lovers based on salad preferences. Edv’s only a matter of time before the Web’s most parochial dating sites — think Equestrian Cupid, Gluten-Free Singles, and Sea Captain Rendezvous — find themselves within mobile incarnations.

For now, these are five apps to help you find A rendezvous:

Grouper

This web-turned-iPhone app organizes group dates for users. You pick two “wingmen,” pay $20 mit Typ, and the app sets you up with another group of three friends, paying for the first round of drinks hinein the process. With investment from Ypsilon Combinator, Informationstechnologie removes the pain point of planning a date and the awkwardness of first-time one-on-one meetings.

Tinder

This free app lets users swipe “no” or “yes” on potential matches. If two users both swipe “yes” to one another, they are then able to Lyrics through Tinder’s Anschluss. Launched die Ko-Website As part of Monat des Herbstbeginns 2012, Tinder had an estimated 500,000 users in its first sixth months, with a day-over-day growth Teilzahlung of 5%. Popular with younger users – it’s average Junkie is 23 – Tinder users have rated each other’s profiles 4.5 billion times, and have been matched up to 50 million times. Tinder works because EDV takes rejection off the table, and taps into a distinctly millennial activity – texting.

How About We

Positing itself as the “offline” dating site, How About We lets users propose A verabredung, which another Endanwender can then opt in to. Designed to also Beryllium used as a discount site for couples, How About We plans activities for two people, offering discounts of up to 75%.

OkCupid

Popular free online dating site OkCupid expanded into an app which lets users browse profiles, send messages, and seek blind dates with its “crazy blind Verabredung” feature. OkCupid uses algorithms to match users with those of similar interests. OkCupid has around 30 million absolut users, with over 1 million unique users logging hinein every day.

Plenty Of Fish

Like OkCupid, Plenty Of Fish is a dating website-turned-app. Its mobile interface lets users browse profiles and send messages, while its personalized services match users interested within the same Mensch of relationship. With over 55 million users online World Health Organization send over 200 million messages a week, Plenty Of Fish’s large userbase lives up to its Bezeichnung.

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