This app is like Tinder without texting
Don’t type, just speak
One reason why all of that takes time is that everything is based on text. It’s slower than talking, and people can wait for hours or even days to respond. But what if rather than typing, you can just speak to each other in real time?
That’s possible with a number of social apps in China, based on voice rather than texting.
Users can take part in a variety of chat rooms. Some resemble amateur radio shows where the hosts play songs and tell jokes. Others are more like group dates. If there’s a match, the couple leaves the group and retires to a private one-on-one chat room to talk further.
One of them is is called YuWan (which means “voice play” in Chinese). It’s rated 4.3 stars and ranks among the top 100 social networking apps on Apple’s App Store in China.
When I entered one of these dating chat rooms on a weekday afternoon, one woman was proclaiming her love for a man she just met.