Apps that will make your Friendship's Day better

We are flooded with friends in the virtual world and hence Friendship's day gets better with each passing year. Youngsters are excited and up for trying new apps and new ways of making new connections.  We are all aware of the usual ones like Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat or Instagram but there are many more which help you form new bonds.

Many apps register a spike in the number of subscribers for such apps during Friendship's day. According to a research conducted by Woo there has been a meteoric rise of 35 % of users who spend more time on Woo around Friendship’s Day. According to Mr. Sumesh Menon Co-Founder& CEO Woo, "friendship’s Week is all about more likes, more conversations and more matches. We expect a massive adoption of the service with a lot more young individuals joining the fold. A great many of them we hope, will find their friends and partners through apps like Woo.” Apps give the users an opportunity to find, chat and meet more people with similar idiosyncrasies and discover the spark in their relationship

On this Friendship Day, CIOL team brings a bunch of such smartphone apps, which will further build your digital network.

Happn:

Sharing similar traits with Tinder, Happn is a monitoring app, letting you see who was or is within 250 meters of you, and when, where, and how often you've crossed paths. If you’ve walked past someone in the street you can then flick the heart button and you can start to chat with them.

With the goal to set the stage for serendipitous connections, the app also lets you advertise your availability for a drink, a walk, or a movie.

Meetup:

As the company claims, Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups, where more than 9,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Essentially, the app makes it effortless for anybody to create a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face.

Meetup believes, "that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference."

Couchsurfing:

And here comes, not a dating site or messenger app, but it's a global community of 10 million people in more than 200,000 cities who share their life, their world, their journey.

If you love traveling, Couchsurfing is for you, where you can share your experiences with like-minded that are willing to help you to find your way around a new city or culture. You can be host or ambassador of that certain place you're visiting, or else be a surfer or a useful tool to meet locals or visitors.

If you have traveling plans for this Friendship's Day, you should definitely try this app.

Hike messenger:

Hike Messenger, is not a new app, but it keeps launching new features, which definitely doesn't make Hike, a boring app! It just makes the world a little friendlier.

On August 5, Hike started a dedicated brand new “Friends Forever” pack of over 30 quirky and fun friendship-themed free stickers that include colloquial expressions, playful slangs, movie dialogues and quotes.

Apart from chatting, giving a whole new twist to Hike News, every night you will get DIY gift ideas that you can create in under 15 minutes, to friendship stories of celebrities, to iconic scenes from series like F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Also, on "Just for Laughs" feature, you can enjoy funny images around friendship and quotes on friendship on Hike Daily to share with your buddies.

OKC:

OKC, which stands for OK Cupid, allows you to swipe and match with people through thousands of profiles and send messages to unsuspecting strangers. Though majorly a dating app, it has a friends option as well where you can be "just friends."

OKC, which uses an algorithm to find people for you, is jam packed with features. For instance, if you upgrade your profile you get access to a bunch of unique features like being able to see who likes you and anonymous browsing.

With 1 million installs every week, OK Cupid is seemingly everywhere - India, London, New York, Barcelona.

Happy friendships day folks!!