If you’re a news junkie (based in Washington, D.C., a member of the “visual generation”, or want your friends to be involved in your love matches, you could be in luck due to a slew of new dating app launches.
Elsewhere Chinese sailors have been warned against potential spying attempts through their dating app activities, and Feeld has welcomed a controversial visitor to its New York magazine launch party.
New dating app for news junkies
A dating app for news junkies, that presents you with potential matches based on how you react to news articles, has launched in – where else? – Washington, D.C..
InPress works as a news aggregator as well as a dating app, presenting you with news articles you can then enter a reaction to. You could, for example, declare in the app that you are “excited” or “angry” about a particular news article.
The app’s algorithm presents you with potential date matches based on how closely your reactions to the news stories match, presumably assuming that you’re interested in meeting people who have the same views of the world as you.
InPress says: “It begins as a news aggregator, presenting top-tier content from various outlets and experts. You interact with this content, sharing your feelings and level of interest. These interactions fuel our AI algorithm, helping it understand your passions, interests, and viewpoints.”
An algorithm like this has the potential to put people in political silos. But Adam Harder, InPress’s CEO, told MSN that political news stories won’t be presented in the app.
“We don’t need politics or toxic things, because we’re trying to actually build bridges here,” he said. “You can’t have people match on things like school shootings or ‘build the wall.’ We want people matching on things like the 9:30 Club [the Washington, D.C. nightclub] and wakeboarding.”
Cheers, NYC’s friend-first dating app
The latest dating app launch in New York is Cheers, which promotes input from ‘real life’ friends on your profile and potential matches.
The app is aimed at the South Asian community in New York, and has crossover with social media – its founder, Sahil Ahuja, is a former Instagram engineer.
In the app, you’re connected to friends via your phone’s contacts. You friends can then offer input on your profile (such as photo advice) and suggest matches with mutual contacts. The general thrust is that matches can potentially be vouched for by people you know already. You can also ask to be introduced to mutual contacts through the app.
Cheers is very much in its infancy, with only a few hundred signups as of late October 2025. But with increased focus these days on ‘authenticity’ in dating apps rather than hooking up with randos, the friend-approved model could be something that sticks here and elsewhere.
Endgame: dating app for the ‘visual’ generation
Would you rather your matches were based on ‘life visions’ rather than your reactions to news articles, or your friends’ recommendations? If so, new dating app Endgame could be worth checking out.
The app uses what it calls visual questions to feed its algorithm, matching you with people who show the same kind of life goals, aspirations and mentalities on issues big and small. For example, you could be shown a picture of a relaxed picnic and a posh restaurant dinner, and have to select one or the other. Or, you could be shown a picture of a lovely large house plus an image of a carefree couple on a motorcycle, and be asked to choose which is most appealing.
Endgame seems to be largely targeted at young people, with the app’s creators saying: “We are a visual generation thanks to the adoption of social media. Endgame experts have studied how our conscious and subconscious react to photos we are exposed to and how they make us feel on multiple levels.”
“Those feelings whether positive or negative are the result of instinctual personality markers that can speak volumes about your true-self and who would be a best fit for you,” they added
Endgame is set to be launched in Apple’s App Store some time in November 2024. At the time of posting, it was still not live.
Raw dishes out prizes to the ghosted
The dating app Raw has been rewarding/compensating some people who have been ghosted on the app, with a series of prizes.
Apps taking measures against ghosting has become something of a trend recently, with apps such as After even launching functions to hold ghosters ‘accountable’ for such behavior. Raw’s way of joining the anti-ghosting march has been to allow ghosting victims, if that’s not too strong of a word, to enter themselves into prize draws.
Raw users can enter their cellphone numbers on a site set up by Raw, write their ghosting story, then potentially win prizes such as iPhones, gift vouchers or free premium membership for the site.
The app has a longer-term way of dealing with ghosting, too, launching a function that stops you starting new chats with matches unless you’ve responded to open chats.
Chinese sailors warned about dating app profiles
Chinese naval authorities have warned their force’s sailors to stop posting information about their military jobs on dating app profiles, due to security fears.
The navy propaganda arm of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) warned sailors of the “internet generation” that the internet has “tricks” and “traps”. It added that “nowadays, dating apps have emerged in an endless stream… young officers and soldiers eager for love may expose their military identity to gain attention, making it easy to become the focus of criminals.”
Chinese authorities sometimes refer to foreign state forces and entities as “criminals”, suggesting that their concern here is spying whilst swiping.
Feeld’s unlikely party guest
We tend to focus on the tech and business developments of dating apps in this monthly round-up, but we have to mention that Woody Allen turned up to a Feeld party in New York recently.
The actor and writer, who is approaching his 90th year, reportedly rocked up to a party held to promote the kink-friendly app in Manhattan. The New York Times [paywall] spotted the star, noting that he is a long-time friend of Daphne Merkin, the writer who was hosing the party on behalf of Feeld.
The newspaper reported that “Feeld team members looked on a bit anxiously” as Merkin chatted with Allen and his wife Soo-Yi Previn. In 1992, Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow made sexual abuse allegations against Allen, which he denied and has never been prosecuted for, but which received renewed scrutiny in the wake of the MeToo movement since 2018.
Feeld, often favored by those after more kinky hook-ups and multiple partners, has enjoyed a lot of success recently, so don’t expect it to be knocked off course by the unorthodox endorsement of this particular Manhattanite.
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