# Sync - Meet IRL — Meet People Face-to-Face > Meet People Face-to-Face (iPhone/iPad app by Tom McGrath.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sync-meet-irl/id6761058148 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Tom McGrath](https://appshunter.io/developer/1855583740) - Category: Social Networking, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 17+ - Requires: iOS 17.2 · 33 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-05-12 - Data updated: 2026-09-10 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sync-meet-irl/id6761058148/reviews.md ## What is Sync? Sync is for people who would rather have one good conversation tonight than a week of typing that goes nowhere. Most social apps are built to keep you scrolling. Sync is built to get you off your phone and talking to someone who is actually in the room with you. There is no feed to scroll. There is no messaging in Sync. If you want to talk to someone, you go and talk to them. HOW IT WORKS 1. Find somewhere to go. Sync opens on what is on near you: venues, events and nights out you can actually turn up to. Browse the map, or scan today, this week and the weekend. 2. Check in when you get there. Checking in is the thing that makes you visible, and it puts you in front of the people checked in at the same place. 3. See who is in the room. Not a browsable list of the whole city. Not people who might show up later. The people who are here, now. 4. Wave. If someone looks worth talking to, you wave at them. It is a low-pressure "come say hi", not a message. 5. Go say hi. If they wave back, that is your green light. Sync tells you both, then gets out of the way. The conversation happens in person, or it does not happen at all. IF YOU NEED AN OPENER Profiles in the room carry a couple of icebreakers, pulled from something you and the other person actually have in common. And if the two of you share a friend, Sync will say so and let you guess who: an interest, then a first letter, then the name. Some events let the organiser open a short window beforehand, so people going that night can look through who else is going and match ahead of doors. That window is the one exception. Everywhere else it is the room you are standing in, or nothing. AFTER THE NIGHT Sync asks one question afterwards: did you have a good time, and did you meet anyone new. Answering it opens that night's people in Connections. From there you send a Sync request to anyone worth keeping, and swap whichever socials you choose to share. Anyone you do not convert quietly ages out. Sync does not keep a permanent roster of everyone you once stood near. WHAT SYNC DOES NOT DO No messaging. No feed. No browsing people who are not in the room with you. Those are not features we have not got round to. Each one is a place a normal app would try to hold on to you, and Sync would rather hand you back to the room. NOTHING TO BUY Sync is free to download and there is nothing to buy inside it. No subscription, no boosts, no paying to be seen. Where an event sells tickets, the organiser sells them; it is never an in-app purchase. YOUR CONTROLS You decide when you check in, and checking in is what puts you in a room. You can block or report anyone from their profile. You can export your data or delete your account from inside the app. Go somewhere. Check in. See who else showed up. Go say hi. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.1.2 — 2026-09-08 Bug Fixes & Improvements ### 2.1.1 — 2026-09-04 Bugs Fixes + Small Improvements ### 2.1.0 — 2026-09-02 Better Event Filtering ### 2.0.1 — 2026-08-26 Sync 2.0 THE ROOM IS NOW A LIST, NOT A DECK The way you meet someone at a venue has changed. Instead of swiping through a deck and then negotiating a time and a meeting point in the app, you get a ranked list of everyone checked in, you wave at whoever looks worth talking to, and if they wave back you go and say hi. No proposal, no timer, no back and forth. If you have used Sync before: your account moves to the wave room automatically, and the old one-conversation-at-a-time limit is gone. Some events and venues still run the older swipe, match and propose flow, where the organiser has chosen it. A NEW HOME THAT STARTS WITH WHAT IS ON Sync now opens on what is actually happening near you rather than on a deck of people. A map you can pan, plus today, this week, the weekend and further out, filtered by the kind of night you are after. If you already have something planned, that plan leads. OPENERS THAT ARE NOT SMALL TALK Open someone's profile in the room and you get two icebreakers, built from something the two of you genuinely share. If you have a friend in common, Sync tells you, and you can play for the name: an interest, then a first letter, then the reveal. CONNECTIONS, REBUILT Everything after the night now lives in one place, in four parts: people who want to connect, your Syncs, the people you waved at on recent nights, and any conversations still open. Send a Sync request to keep someone, and share whichever socials you choose to share. Waves you do not convert age out on their own. ONE QUESTION AT THE END OF THE NIGHT Sync asks whether you had a good time and whether you met anyone new. Answering opens that night's people in Connections. EVENTS Event pages, RSVPs, plans and shareable links, so a night out can be put together and joined without leaving the app. Where an organiser has opened a pre-arrival window, you can look through who else is going before doors. A FULL REDESIGN Every screen has been rebuilt on one light theme, one type family, and a component set shared across the app. ### 2.0.0 — 2026-08-25 Sync 2.0 THE ROOM IS NOW A LIST, NOT A DECK The way you meet someone at a venue has changed. Instead of swiping through a deck and then negotiating a time and a meeting point in the app, you get a ranked list of everyone checked in, you wave at whoever looks worth talking to, and if they wave back you go and say hi. No proposal, no timer, no back and forth. If you have used Sync before: your account moves to the wave room automatically, and the old one-conversation-at-a-time limit is gone. Some events and venues still run the older swipe, match and propose flow, where the organiser has chosen it. A NEW HOME THAT STARTS WITH WHAT IS ON Sync now opens on what is actually happening near you rather than on a deck of people. A map you can pan, plus today, this week, the weekend and further out, filtered by the kind of night you are after. If you already have something planned, that plan leads. OPENERS THAT ARE NOT SMALL TALK Open someone's profile in the room and you get two icebreakers, built from something the two of you genuinely share. If you have a friend in common, Sync tells you, and you can play for the name: an interest, then a first letter, then the reveal. CONNECTIONS, REBUILT Everything after the night now lives in one place, in four parts: people who want to connect, your Syncs, the people you waved at on recent nights, and any conversations still open. Send a Sync request to keep someone, and share whichever socials you choose to share. Waves you do not convert age out on their own. ONE QUESTION AT THE END OF THE NIGHT Sync asks whether you had a good time and whether you met anyone new. Answering opens that night's people in Connections. EVENTS Event pages, RSVPs, plans and shareable links, so a night out can be put together and joined without leaving the app. Where an organiser has opened a pre-arrival window, you can look through who else is going before doors. A FULL REDESIGN Every screen has been rebuilt on one light theme, one type family, and a component set shared across the app. ## More apps by Tom McGrath - [Valar Morghulis](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/valar-morghulis/id6755689980) All apps by Tom McGrath: https://appshunter.io/developer/1855583740 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*