Who's Down? Is Googles New App For Meeting Up With Your Friends

Who’s Down? is Googles New App for Meeting Up with Your Friends

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Published 1 Nov 2015

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Between Buzz and +, Google hasn’t had the best of luck with its social media efforts. But with Who’s Down? The company is testing a new app service and looking to help you connect with your friends in meatspace instead of cyberspace.

The idea behind the app is simple enough. Toggle an onscreen slider to show you’re available to do something. Specify what you’d like to do. Like go get lunch, go bowling, and see if any of your friends are free to get together. From there, you can chat with your friends and set something up. At first glance, Who’s Down? It seems like a take-off of Apple’s Find My Friends app, but it’s different. Find My Friends will let you track where your friends or family members are. But Who’s Down? is all about monitoring availability. In that respect, it’s more akin to a simplified calendar app with a chat feature. Who’s Down? is a free app for Android and iOS, but you’ll need to request an invitation from within the app to use it. We haven’t tried the app just yet. But it’s clearly the sort of app you’ll need most of your friends to use for it to be handy.