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 ...

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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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” ...

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 ...

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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 ...

As your cruising guide to Folsom Street Fair, Sniffies is debuting a new feature: Sniffies Event Campuses, an interactive, live map layer designed to help users explore large-scale queer events in ...

In the literature about cruising from the late twentieth century, what stands out is the physical choreography of it. David Wojnarowicz, in his 1991 memoir, “Close to the Knives,” describes walking ...