The app Blendr was launched last week after much popularity came from its previous app last year Grindr (made for gay dating). The app Blendr is gaining much more ground in the week its been out based on downloads. This is how it works if your on the app and others around you are on the app in your city you can find their location and chat real time. Keep in mind they have to be on the app to find their location! You cant just find their location any time you want that would be criminal. To get some more kind of background information you would have to chat with developer Simkhai. Read below as he explains the app more in detail:

Browse for users by location, interests, and recent activity. Tap a photo to check out user profiles, photos, interests, and much more. Start private messaging conversations in Blendr chat. Check up on your friends’ latest status updates and photos. Blendr’s “Interest View” lets you view nearby people who are similar to you. A full set of privacy controls that allow to share as much or as little information as you are comfortable with sharing. Directly update your status on other social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Filter users by categories based on interests.Check-in to nearby venues and monitor where other Blendr users are checking-in. Blendr’s “Heat View” helps you find trending hot spots nearby to you. Use it to find the hottest spots or maybe even the restaurant that is the least crowded.

Grindr was launched in 2009 and has been downloaded more than 2.6 million times in 192 countries, according to Simkhai, who said there are 50,000 Grindrs online at any given moment.Blendr was a year in the making when developers pondered the question: “Will women use it?”"This was a question we were thinking about for a long time,” Simkhai said in an interview with AFP. “We looked at Grindr and we said ‘OK, what if we just take Grindr and change the logos and change the colors and release that?’”And we said, ‘You know what, that’s not going to work for women,’” he said. “So we actually spent the past year thinking and making it work for women.”Simkhai said it was a “misconception” that women “have a very easy time meeting other people.”"I don’t think that’s true,” he said. “They struggle to meet people of quality who share their same passions.”And that’s what Blendr’s all about — helping you find people who are as passionate as you are about the same kinds of things.”To make the Blendr experience potentially more appealing to women, the Blendr team incorporated enhanced privacy and safety features and put greater emphasis on listing a user’s interests — from hobbies to sports to music to languages.”We’ve built up the privacy settings to make women and men alike feel more comfortable,” Simkhai said. “We don’t require any information other than your date of birth. We don’t require a photo, we don’t require your name, we don’t require an email or a phone number.”With a “location toggle,” a Blendr user can determine how accurate they want their location setting to be to other users.”You can bring that to low if you don’t want someone to know exactly where you’re at,” Simkhai said. “You can also block users. You can control who can see you based on gender or sexual orientation or age.”Simkhai said Blendr is more than just a “dating site,” although he believes it does have a leg up when compared to online matchmaking services.”A lot of traditional dating and social networking is very much a computer-based experience,” he said. “It’s not real time.”With Blendr, if you go from one part of town to another, one block to the next, you’ll see a new set of people,” he said. “It’s changing in real time.”"It’s kind of a new category,” Simkhai said of Blendr. “More of a social network that allows you to meet people based on your interests.”He said it is still too early to release figures on the number of downloads for Blendr or the gender breakdown of users but the data will be made available “in the coming weeks or months.”

Blendr is available for the iPhone, the iPod Touch, iPad, and as a Facebook application only!