Date Your Celebrity Crush Lookalike! Badoo Dating App Uses Facial Recognition to Find the Perfect Match

Badoo helps you to find a lookalike for your celebrity crush and sets up a date with them! This groundbreaking app has become the new trend and can actually help you date someone who looks very similar to your celeb crush.

Published: July 12, 2017 1:20 PM IST

By Aishwarya Krishnan

Date Your Celebrity Crush Lookalike! Badoo Dating App Uses Facial Recognition to Find the Perfect Match

Dating apps have become a life saviour for various single enthusiasts who enjoy going out on dates and are trying to find the perfect match. However, a new dating app might just be the best thing that happened to singles in a long time. Dating app, Badoo helps you to find a lookalike for your celebrity crush and sets up a date with them! This groundbreaking app has become the new trend and can actually help you date someone who looks very similar to your celeb crush. While the most popular Kim Kardashian, Emma Stone, Selena Gomez among others, this app might as well help the lookalikes of Ed Sheeran, Chris Hemsworth and everyone famous using their facial recognition feature. Top 5 dating apps in India to find your perfect match!

For those who are not into celebrity crushes and actually have real life crushes, the app also helps to find look-alikes of ordinary people that we have a crush on, by simply uploading a picture of the crush, whether it is your co-worker or that cool guy from back in school. Badoo has been gaining popularity for the feature which shuffles through thousands of faces to find someone with similar features. While many may find this rather superficial, singles have been enjoying this app which also helps you to find doubles of people by providing their facebook profile link. The simple access method of the app and the effectiveness has made it a talk of the town. Shocking Truth About Tinder Revealed! Here’s Why Women Takes Selfies From Above And Men From Below Angle

Badoo is based out of London and already has 350 million users worldwide. While its competitors like Tinder, Grindr, etc. still try to go the old fashioned way of matching interests, Badoo straight up offers people based on the looks of a person and is being viewed as superficial by many. However, the maker’s call themselves a social discovery site and say that their aim is to connect people for various purposes and are not restricted to dating. The lookalike feature of Badoo app connects the user’s Facebook profile and automatically suggests Facebook friends for whom they might want to find doppelgangers.

While Badoo is not the only app that uses the facial recognition feature, it is clearly the most popular. In 2014, Match.com also came up with a similar feature that helped people find lookalikes to their exes, with an idea of helping people move on. However, this feature came under a package worth USD 5000 for six months and was not equally popular. Porn site Megacams also launched a facial recognition feature, but its uses are completely different. The adult website allows people to upload pictures of anyone they want to see nude and provides an array of pictures of lookalikes who are naked! While the adult site used this feature match people with sex models, Badoo is clearly doing a much better task of actually finding dates!

The App has various famous celebrities as their most searched people in the lookalike feature includes Beyonce, Kylie Jenner and the most shocking result has to be United States President Donald Trump, who is the tenth most searched celebrity lookalike on the dating app. The biggest highlight of this feature has to be that it is absolutely free of cost and can help you quickly find celebrity lookalikes, even if it is not for dating purposes. However, the app is currently used mainly to find romantic partners, and who would not want to go out with people who look like their long time crushes!

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