50 Apps To Find Friends, Meet People and Make the Most of Life

50 Apps to Enjoy With Friends

Looking to find friends? Apps like these are best enjoyed with others.

1. Crowded Room lets you mark places you “might go” and connect with other friends who say they’re interested in the same event.

2. Forecast announces what you’re planning to do. Invite friends to come along and find someone to hit the museum or the conference with you.

3.  Sonar blends data from Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn and Twitter, as well as your current location, to let you see who’s nearby and how you know them.

4. SayHi helps you find people nearby and…well, say hi.

5. The Thumb helps you get instant feedback and opinions from real people and prompts you to offer yours in return.

6. WhosHere connects you to people with similar interests who happen to be nearby.

7.  Find My Friends lets you either continuously or temporarily share your exact locations on a map with approved users.

8. Situationist drops suggestions to other app users in the area, challenging them to do something funny like compliment you on your hat. And thankfully, the app is moderated to keep out inappropriate funny business.

9. Thirdplace lets you login to your Facebook account and enter rooms where you might meet people from your region. The app started with San Francisco and New York and is adding more as it goes.

10. Glancee displays profile pics across your radar, showing nearby people with mutual friends and interests.

11. Gauss lets you program in a list of things you’d like to meet people about and then uses Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare information to find people you might like.

12. Kismet gleans your info from your other phone apps and combines everything about you into one spot. You can then use that information as you chat and set up meetings with others.

13. Pearescope is a networking app that lets users introduce friends to other friends.

14. Qrious is a handy app for taking notes when you meet someone at a function who would be good to network with in the future. Also lets you track people who come to your own professional events.

15. CardMunch scans and stores business cards as graphics, so there’s no more old, crumpled cards in the bottom of your book bag or coat pocket.

16. Moco encourages you to meet and chat with people nearby…and play games with them.

17. Ban.jo uses your social networks and your location to reveal who’s nearby and how you know them.

18. Wrapp is a simple way to send gift cards from top brands to your Facebook friends. It will even remind you about upcoming birthdays.

19. Broadcast for Friends is livestream video tied to Facebook. You can actually broadcast live to friends over Facebook plus it has Instagram filters.

20. Friendsee also lets you broadcast video, either recorded or live, to your Facebook wall.

21. Namerick helps you remember people’s names.

23. Giftly lets you send gifts from a wide variety of  stores to your friends.

24. In case it wasn’t available last time you uploaded new apps, Google+ did finally launch an app and scored more than 40 million users during its first few months.

25. Beejive for GoogleTalk, among other features, lets you Google chat on your phone.

26. Group Me provides smooth group messaging with easy photo-sharing.

27. Brewster combines all of your contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, your address book, and more into one plac

28. When you meet someone interesting, bump phones and exchange contact info in a flash. Or run into friends and exchange photos and other info.

29. Sprd the Note allows you to share songs with your friends directly from your iPhone. Import tracks from your iPhone/iPod and share using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or email.

30. OpenTable helps you easily make reservations at 4,000 searchable restaurants.

31. Flock lets a group of users send photos to the same album. This could be fun for sharing pics of that party or concert or gathering everyone was at together.

32. Hulloha Group Call enables you to invite up to 20 people to a group call via text. The app started in England, it’s spreading like the Industrial Revolution. (Okay, a rather small Industrial Revolution.)

33. Tapestry isn’t for use with the masses, but may come in handy with select friends and family nearby. Let them have access to the photos on your phone and see photos on their phones too.

34.  Zamp will get you discovering and connecting with people in real-time.

35.  TripColor is for trip-sharing and travel-blogging with friends.

36. Kukunu can help you plan, co-create and share your trips.

37. Gogobot lets you see which friends have traveled where.

38. Tripku helps you put together a group trip and plan it together.

39. Roommatefit can help you dig up a compatible roommate who shares your interests. Hmmm. If you’re the type who wants to roll the dice on living with strangers.

40. FaceTime, if you’re not already using it, is like Skype for phones. Now you can not only deliver a holiday greeting “face to face” but you can see their ugly Christmas sweater firsthand.

41. Bobsled Calling is a gift for people whose plans don’t already include unlimited free calls to friends and family.

42. Talkatone is for you if you use Google Voice, GTalk or Facebook VoIP calls. Use them to call or text any US or Canadian number. (Bonus: they don’t have to install the app).

43. Tango is also for video and phone calls, but it will let you send free video messages to groups too. Now aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can see footage of the 3-year old’s ballet recital. Blessing or curse?

44. Viber is a sure sign times are a changin’. Call, text, send photos and locations with anyone in the world. Free.

45. Translator is for interacting with new friends abroad (or stateside) who don’t speak your language.  You can use the phone’s camera to translate text or use it to decode spoken word as well.

46.Tripayo is a comprehensive travel app. It’ll help you book travel details and meet people along the way.

47. 360 Panorama lets you snap photos while spinning around to create 360 photos.

48. Fring enables free VoIP calls as well as video calls over WiFi and 3G.

49. Meebo is a feature-packed messenger apps with support for AIM, Google Talk, Facebook and other networks.

50. Skout helps you meet people around the globe. Start schmoozing.