--- title: Cuddlr: An App That Helps You Spoon with Total Strangers description: But it's not for sex! The app promises! canonical: https://time.com/3418573/cuddlr/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-22T17:41:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:22.454Z og:title: Cuddlr: An App That Helps You Spoon with Total Strangers og:description: But it's not for sex! The app promises! og:url: https://time.com/3418573/cuddlr/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b380f0e3f40fc87/6986a4943bc999eff71a5703/screen-shot-2014-09-22-at-1-10-07-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cuddlr og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cuddlr: An App That Helps You Spoon with Total Strangers twitter:description: But it's not for sex! The app promises! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b380f0e3f40fc87/6986a4943bc999eff71a5703/screen-shot-2014-09-22-at-1-10-07-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cuddlr Is a 100% Real App for Spooning With Random Strangers by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Sep 22, 2014 5:41 PM UTC  Cuddlr by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Sep 22, 2014 5:41 PM UTC Have you ever had the overwhelming urge to spoon with a complete stranger in a public place? Anybody? We’ll take that silence as a resounding maybe! [Cuddlr](http://cuddlrapp.com/) is a location-based app that finds people in the immediate vicinity who are game for a strictly “platonic” cuddle. Users are shown a name and picture (because cuddling compatibility knows no age) of potential snuggle buddies. If you approve one another within a 15-minute window, then you can send a message about where to meet up and then see real-time walking directions of where the other person is as he or she approaches. (You can also block a user at any time.) Founder [Charlie Williams talked to _Salon_](http://www.salon.com/2014/09/18/tinder%5Ffor%5Fcuddling%5Fthis%5Fapp%5Fwill%5Ffind%5Fyou%5Fa%5Frandom%5Fstranger%5Fto%5Fspoon/) about the app’s unique offerings (it’s not for sex, he _promises!_): --- > “” --- This concept adds a whole new, fun level of “is this cheating?” to modern relationships. Post-cuddle, users can then rank their partners’ performance … just like AirBNB. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3418573/cuddlr/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3418573/cuddlr/"},"headline":"Cuddlr Is a 100% Real App for Spooning With Random Strangers","datePublished":"2014-09-22T17:41:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:22.454Z","description":"But it's not for sex! The app promises!","url":"https://time.com/3418573/cuddlr/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","relationships","App"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b380f0e3f40fc87/6986a4943bc999eff71a5703/screen-shot-2014-09-22-at-1-10-07-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2b380f0e3f40fc87/6986a4943bc999eff71a5703/screen-shot-2014-09-22-at-1-10-07-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cuddlr","caption":"","creditText":"Cuddlr","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3418573/cuddlr/","name":"Cuddlr Is a 100% Real App for Spooning With Random Strangers"}}]}] ```