

Pros: It's not just a case of sifting through pictures – there's the Kippoverse to wander around, looking something like a GameBoy era Pokémon universe. It's the dating app for proud nerds and hardened gamers.
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Fill out a form detailing which games you love plus the usual trad stuff about what you're looking for in a friend/partner, and on you go. Kippo doesn't style itself explicitly as a dating app, rather a place to find friends and hang out, but there's certainly a lot of sifting through profiles in hope of matching with people you fancy in the time-honoured manner. The USP: Liking the same things is the starting point of so many relationships, it does make a lot of sense to build a dating app around finding the fandoms and subcultures you're into already. Verdict: Like a more intense reworking of OK Cupid, but without the charm or easy functionality for a casual user, this one feels like it's got some way to go before it goes overground. Plus, the pool of people in the UK isn't gigantic. There are a lot of extremely grumpy reviews from people struggling to make head or tail of the app. Pros: There's an ID check feature which feels extremely sensible, and the emphasis on finding a match for you who does actually fit what you want and who you are is a good thing.Ĭons: You register for free, but then there's a fair old monthly fee of £14.90 for the basic membership package – and it'll renew automatically, so you'd best not forget about it. Imagine Thomas Tuchel reading this bit of bumph from the website: "Sounds complicated.

The idea is that Parship uses strictly objective, scientific processes to matchmake, which does rather click with the comedy German stereotype. This Hamburg-headquartered company leads with a couple of facts: a 38 percent success rate for premium Parship members and 23,000 new members each week. The USP: The serious dating site for serious daters.
