A 2023 survey found that 61% of Americans expected to feel lonely or sad during the holidays. Timeleft is an app that matches users with strangers for dinner via a personality algorithm. When David ...

Inside a Ballard Japanese restaurant last month, I had dinner with five complete strangers. I’d shown up alone, and nervously, but after a server guided me to our table, I was enthusiastically greeted ...

ST. LOUIS – From Singapore to Switzerland, St. Louis has joined a list of 120 other international and country-wide cities taking part in the dining and friend-finding app, Timeleft. Every Wednesday ...

Amarah Hasham-Steele, editorial fellow at The Walrus, talks about her experience trying out friendship apps.

A sticker on a wall caught Katya Gratcheva’s attention last fall: “No dating or networking. Just breakfast.” It led the married 52-year-old, tired of the transactional networking she encountered at ...

Last night, at more than 1,600 restaurants in 325-plus cities around the globe, approximately 20,000 people gathered for dinner with complete strangers. It’s what the creator of Timeleft—a French app ...

In recent years, people have been increasingly looking for new ways to form platonic connections, as loneliness and social isolation have become more prevalent. In 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General went ...

When David Brown moved from Chicago to Los Angeles this summer, one of the first things he did was download an app that aims to "fight big-city loneliness." The 35-year-old sales director had seen an ...