Does the Boo Dating App Work in the USA?

Yes. Boo has a listing on the US Apple App Store, titled Boo Dating App: Date and Friends App, and an Android version on Google Play. It also runs in any browser on the Boo website. So the app itself works anywhere in the United States, including a big city like New York. What decides whether it works for you is a setting, not your zip code: Boo only shows you to people nearby, and only shows you nearby people, when location access is on.

There are three ways in. iPhone users download it from the App Store, where the publisher is listed as Boo Enterprises, Inc. Android users get it from Google Play. And if you would rather not install anything, the Boo website works in a normal browser.

That matters for one practical reason. A man who tries the browser version first and likes it can move to the phone app later without starting over, and a man who dislikes the phone app can still check a profile from his laptop.

Boo is a personality-based app. You take a free test, the app places you in a personality type, and then you choose Love or Pass on the profiles it shows you on the Match page.

Where those profiles come from is up to your location setting. If you allow location access, you can set your match filters to show local people instead of global ones. The distance setting lives in the Match filter, so a man in Chicago can keep it tight and a man in a small town can stretch it.

Without that permission, the app has no idea where you are, and the default is a worldwide view.

Boo has a name for what happens when you skip location: the Spirit Realm. If you do not enable location, you are in the Spirit Realm, and your profile is not shown to other users in their daily souls.

Read that twice, because it is the most common reason a man thinks an app does not work in his country. He downloads it, taps through the setup, declines the location prompt, and then wonders why nobody responds. Nobody can respond to a profile they are never shown.

If you have been on Boo for a week with no reaction, open your phone settings and check location access before you blame the app.

Boo does not publish how many users it has in a given city, and nothing on its pages says it is stronger in one US region than another. So nobody honestly knows how busy your city is without looking.

The way to find out is to set the Match filter to local, use the app for a few evenings and see how the profiles look. A full Match page each day is a decent sign. A page that keeps running dry is a sign the pool near you is small.

a dating coach calls New York the single best city for online dating because there are so many single women there. That is a fact about the city, not about Boo, but it points to the right habit. A dense city gives any app more to work with, and a small town gives it less. Judge Boo by what your own filter shows you, not by what someone in another state says.

Boo says that if the Match page shows No Souls Found, you should widen your filters. It also says the app sometimes shows profiles outside your set preferences, distance included, to add variety.

So a profile that turns up from far away is not necessarily a bug. And widening the distance a little is the first thing to try before you decide the app has no one near you.

Boo Infinity, the paid tier, includes a feature called Teleport that lets a member set their location anywhere in the world. Boo points out that a profile that looks far away may be using it.

For a man, the lesson is simple. If you are matched with someone who shows up as living across the country, ask where she actually is early in the chat. a dating coach's advice on online chats is to move toward a date quickly, and a woman who cannot meet you in your city cannot go on a date with you. Asking early saves a week of messages that were never going anywhere.

Treat Boo as one test among several, not as the only place you look. My rule for anything in online dating is to test it, change one thing and test again. Give Boo a fair try with location on, a local filter, and a profile that shows what you do on a normal week. After a couple of weeks, you will know whether your area has enough women on it to keep going.