After seven years as a browser-only cruising platform, Sniffies officially launched an iOS version March 3. As an app, it joins the ranks of competitors like Grindr and Scruff. But unlike those, with ...

In the past couple years, Sniffies emerged as a serious competitor to Grindr — and not just among cisgender gay men, the primary demographic of the map-based hookup app, but also the horny community ...

The New Yorker has published an article about the cruising website, Sniffies… to the horror of many gay guys. For many, Sniffies was a gay secret that straight people had no need to know about. As ...

Apple just dropped a bomb on the queer hookup scene — and folks are upset. The tech giant quietly pulled Sniffies, the popular cruising and meetup app, from the App Store, leaving LGBTQIA+ users ...

Less than one-third of Sniffies users identified as gay in 2025, with bisexual men narrowly outnumbering gay men on the popular cruising app, according to the platform’s annual “Sniffies Download” ...

As an app designed to facilitate gay hookups, popular site Sniffies has had a limitation since it launched in 2018—it was accessible only via web browser. Until now. On Monday, the map-based cruising ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Image: Sniffies) Sniffies has shared an array of end-of-year insights into the sexual preferences of its user base. The map-based ...

At long last, the cruising app Sniffies has launched an iOS app that brings its “game-changing, map-based experience to mobile like never before.” Personally, I didn’t use Sniffies that often, largely ...

One night this past February, over drinks and moody bar lighting, Eric Green and his friends were swapping stories of their recent hookups when one mentioned they’d used the app Sniffies to have ...

Daniel Reynolds is the editor-in-chief of Out and an award-winning journalist who focuses on the intersection between entertainment and politics. This Jersey boy has now lived in Los Angeles for more ...