Which Dating Apps Let Your Friends Swipe for You?

None of the apps we checked lets a friend swipe on your account for you. Three of them do give friends a way to take part. Tinder has Double Date, where you and friends swipe on other pairs together. Hinge has Friend's Take, where friends write about you on your page. Bumble has Recommend to a Friend and BeePitched, which let friends point you toward someone or pitch you to her.

You open Double Date from its icon on the Discovery or Messages screen and invite friends to pair up with. You then swipe on other pairs of friends together.

When two pairs match, a group chat opens between all four people. You can also swipe right on one person in the matched pair to open a direct message with her.

Tinder describes it as a free feature, available on Android, iOS and the web in select markets. Boosts and Super Likes do not work with it.

Of the four, this is the one that most resembles friends deciding things with you. For a man who is nervous about a first date alone, four people at one table can be an easier start than two.

Friend's Take is a link you share with friends, family or coworkers. They use it to add a take about you to your page, and they do not need a Hinge account to write one.

The link works for a limited time or until it has collected a set number of replies, and you can have several links active at once.

This is the feature with the most direct benefit for a man. A woman reading a page is mostly reading what one man says about himself, and men say flattering and vague things about themselves. A line from someone who has seen you with your friends reads differently. Pick friends who will write something specific, like how you behave at a dinner, not a generic compliment.

On Bumble, you can share someone's page with a friend through a link. The friend needs a Bumble account to view it, and the person you recommended is not told.

This one is about helping a friend find a match, so it is mostly useful in reverse. If your friends have Bumble, they can send you a page, and you decide whether to like it. You stay in charge of the decision.

BeePitched works for a friend who is not on Bumble. You and a couple of friends write a pitch for him and text it to him. Nobody needs a Bumble account to create one.

It is a pitch from friends to a friend, so it is more of a nudge than a way to find a woman.

None of them lets a friend pick women on your behalf. Double Date is a joint swipe and you take part in it. Friend's Take is writing, not choosing. The two Bumble features pass a page along or write a pitch.

That is probably for the best. A friend choosing for you has no instructions, and he will pick women he likes. If he writes the messages, they go out under your name, and he has far less to lose than you do.

If you want help with the apps, the useful jobs for a friend are the ones he can do well in an hour: taking photos in daylight, reading your page and telling you what is unclear, and writing a Friend's Take that says something real.

Ask two friends for a Friend's Take before you do anything else, since it improves the page every woman sees. Use Double Date if group meetings suit you. Leave the choosing and the messaging to yourself, because that is where a date is won or lost, and nobody else knows what you would say to her.