This Is The Number One App For Meeting New People

Whether it’s in your home city or abroad, making the right human connections can inspire you, broaden your interests, and even help you uncover those hidden gems in every location you visit.

Every city holds millions of opportunities, and the best way to take advantage of them—whether you’re visiting or living there—is to get out of your apartment and meet real people. But how do you even start? Turn up at a bar and hope for the best? Stand awkwardly on the edge of conversation hoping to be invited in? There is an easier way to make the right connections.

Shapr is a free networking app that makes it ridiculously simple to connect with people in your city or while traveling. It works a little like dating apps, but the goal is non-romantic connections. People use it to create career opportunities and friendships instead of hookups. Shapr has over a million users, many of whom have actually found co-founders, investors, job offers and even bridesmaids through the app.

Here’s how it works: Shapr uses your self-selected interests, location, and job title to suggest 15 to 20 personalized profiles for you to look through each day. You ultimately decide who you’re interested in meeting by swiping right. If you reject somebody they’ll never know, so you don’t have to worry about hurt feelings. But if you select the meet button and that person does too, you can chat and arrange a place to connect in the real world.

It’s a super easy way to quickly find nearby people who share your interests and are actively looking to expand their networks.

And Shapr doesn’t just help you meet people in your home city. If you’re on your way to a new destination, whether for a vacation, a business trip, or moving permanently, you can upgrade for a few dollars to Shapr Plus and activate a Teleport feature that will let you connect with people all over the globe. It’s the perfect way to line up a local tour guide or meet a few people before you arrive.

Once you’re matched you can meet up with people

Instead of relying on Instagram to discover what other lives are like, get unique perspectives from the people actually living those adventures by meeting them face to face. Shapr takes less than two minutes a day to use, which means you can easily start a conversation while sipping your morning coffee or waiting for your checked luggage to arrive. No matter where you live, meet people that will inspire and motivate you on where to go next, both in your career and in your city.

So what are you waiting for? Download Shapr here for free and make your first connection.

Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.

Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.

Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together.

Culture Trips are deeply immersive 5 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and 4-5* accommodation to look forward to at the end of each day. Our Rail Trips are our most planet-friendly itineraries that invite you to take the scenic route, relax whilst getting under the skin of a destination. Our Private Trips are fully tailored itineraries, curated by our Travel Experts specifically for you, your friends or your family.

We know that many of you worry about the environmental impact of travel and are looking for ways of expanding horizons in ways that do minimal harm - and may even bring benefits. We are committed to go as far as possible in curating our trips with care for the planet. That is why all of our trips are flightless in destination, fully carbon offset - and we have ambitious plans to be net zero in the very near future.