Weave is a free iPhone social app to find and meet professionals around your location. The app uses your LinkedIn profile for finding professionals around you. This app is similar to popular iPhone app Tinder and applies the same principle for itself. Just like Tinder, this app displays random professionals who are around your location. Then you can either match them or ignore them. If any user who you have matched also matches your profile, then both of you can have in-app chat and also meet each other.
Apart from this, you can check the profile of other users even if both of you have not matched each other’s profile. The app lets you find professionals around you by specifying different matching criteria. Whenever any professional matches you, then app notifies by sending a notification on the lock screen.
Note: This app is not optimized for iPad so while using it on iPad, you will not be able to see the message while you are typing it. You can see it only after sending it.
Using This iPhone Social App:
When you launch app for first time, then you will be asked to connect your LinkedIn profile with the app to continue. Once you have connected your profile with the app, it starts showing professionals around your location. The number of professionals displayed by app depends upon the number of professionals using this app around you. Hence, numbers may vary from location to location. For each professional, you can check his name, job designation, distance from you, his education, and his skills etc..
Each of the professional shown to you is known as a Card in this app. You can choose to ignore or match any card as per your preferences. To ignore, tap on Later or simply swipe left. Similarly for matching, tap on Meet or simply swipe right. If you want to see detailed profile, then tap on New option to view the complete profile. From here, you can check different fields like user’s profile summary, job experience, and education.
If you want to change the criteria then you can do so by tapping at top of the screen. You can choose from Everyone or only those matching with your profile.
Whenever someone matches your profile then you will get a notification on your iPhone’s lock screen. You can match back the user to start chatting with him or meeting him. The app provides you with simple chatting feature for having simple text chat. You can’t send images, media files, or attachments of any kind via this app. The one good feature is that this app constantly shows a summary of user’s profile with whom you are chatting.
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Final Verdict:
Weave is a good iPhone social app to find, meet professionals around you. The app works absolutely perfect with no glitches. Since the app is new, its user base is not so large but it truly holds the potential to become next big thing once it starts getting popular. Do try this app to find, meet professionals around you.
