Is Hoot Me a dating app?

No. Hoot Me is an IRL meetup and hangout app. People join real-life events to make friends and build a social life, and can come solo or bring their existing crew.

How much does Hoot Me cost?

Free accounts join up to 5 events and create 2 events a month. Premium costs $9.99 per month for unlimited joining and event creation.

Which countries is Hoot Me used in?

Hoot Me is used across India, the United States, Japan, Europe and worldwide, with a language-localised interface in eight languages.

How does Hoot Me verify people?

Every user passes AI selfie verification, with optional government ID badges, plus ratings, reviews and community reporting.

What is social discovery, and how is it different from dating apps?

Social discovery is finding people through shared real-life activities rather than one-to-one matching. Instead of swiping on profiles, you browse events happening near you — dinners, hikes, club nights, concerts — and join the ones you like. Hoot Me is a social discovery app for making friends and hanging out, not a dating app.

Social discovery in one sentence

Social discovery apps organise people around plans, not profiles. The unit is an event — a hike on Saturday, a rooftop dinner on Thursday — and the people come with it.

That flips the usual order. On a dating app you match first and hope a plan emerges. On a social discovery app the plan already exists, and showing up is the whole introduction.

Why the format works better for friendship

Friendship needs repetition and a shared context — the two things one-to-one chat is worst at. Group events give both: several people, a reason to be there, and something to talk about that is not 'so, how's your week going?'.

It also lowers the stakes. Nobody is being evaluated. If the conversation is flat, the hike still happened.

How Hoot Me implements it

Hoot Me shows verified, real-world events on a live map. You can join up to 5 events and create 2 events per month for free, or go unlimited with Premium at $9.99/month.

Every profile passes AI selfie verification, with optional government ID badges, ratings and community reporting. Events are meant to be public places, and users must be 18 or older.