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Review Of People Rating Apps

REVIEW-WEEKLY - June 20 - People love reviews. We're seeing the rise of a new breed of review apps: apps with the purpose of letting users review individual people.

1. Peeple - The first "Yelp for humans" app. Users have privacy concerns. There are reviews about people without their consent.
2. Stroovy - Stroovy requires the person being reviewed to have an active dating profile visible to the public. Stroovy requires users to submit a full review on someone before that user is allowed to search reviews of anyone else.
3. Lulu - Once a platform for women to review men on dating sites, Lulu is now a retooled Tinder clone. This people-reviewing app was recently sold to Badoo

Stroovy's approach appears to be the most respectable. Only allowing reviews of people currently "putting themselves out there."

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Former Saint Releases Online Dating Safety App

GAMBIT - June 8 - Former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Quinn Early and Rebecca Isner, a woman he met through a dating site, co-founded Stroovy, an app to review dating site users. "Rebecca Isner came up with the idea", he says. "She's the type of person that reviews everything." The app will remain free till the end of the year. Then they are planning on introducing premium features.

by Zayn Abidin
See full article at Gambit

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Lulu Is Dead

OPW - June 6 - Lulu allowed women to review guys and was acquired by Badoo in February this year (see Lulu news). It was then converted to just a regular dating app powered by Badoo, but look at onlulu.com. We noticed this countdown on Friday. When the time is up, nothing happens and the count down starts again. So this might be the end of Lulu. We can't find Lulu in the app store search either. Bye bye Lulu. The folks at Peeple and Stroovy will be pleased. (Full Disclosure: Stroovy is a former client of Courtland Brooks)

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Former Saints Player Quinn Early Launches 'Stroovy' App To Stop Liars On Dating Sites

WGNO - May 12 - Former 1990s Saints player, Quinn Early, created a new app called "Stroovy" with his partner, Rebecca Isner. He calls it, "Yelp for online daters." Users can read reviews on potential partners or write reviews about a good date or not so desirable one. This app, which launched in late March, can also act like a "wingman" or "wingwoman."

by Kenny Lopez
See full article at WGNO

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There's Another App For Rating People - Stroovy

MASHABLE - May 5 - A new app called Stroovy aims to help users vet the people they meet on dating sites by reading and writing reviews based on their experience. The idea is similar to Lulu. But, unlike Lulu's reviews, Stroovy takes reviews from users of all genders. The app also requires users sign up with their phone numbers to prevent people from making duplicate accounts. Stroovy is iOS only for now but an Android app is in the works.

by Karissa Bell
See full article at Mashable

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Date Review App Stroovy Officially Launches In The App Store

PR.COM - Mar 26 - Stroovy is not a dating app. It is a third-party review app to help online daters make more informed choices. Stroovy users will be able to write reviews about people that they have dated, read reviews about potential dates, communicate with other Stroovy users, use facial recognition functionality to link a dater's profiles together if they are on multiple dating sites, comment on reviews and compare dates' profiles to what others have said about them.

See full article at PR.com

Summarized by the Courtland Brooks team