MapChat Social
Benjamin Boehlke Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
MapChat Social is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Benjamin Boehlke. Rated 5.0/5 from 5 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 10, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 5 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 89 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Oct 10
- 2026 · vButterfly 2.2.0
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About MapChat Social
Your city is full of people you'd love. You just haven't met them yet. MapChat shows you where they are tonight. Open the map, see which spots near you are busy right now, check in, and wave at someone. If they wave back, a chat opens. Then you go say hi in person. No endless feed. No swiping. Just a reason to go out and people to go out with. HOW IT WORKS See who's out tonight. A live map of the places near you, with live headcounts so you know who's there before you commit. Check in when you want to be seen. You show up at a venue only when you choose to check in, and you can hide anytime. Wave to break the ice. A wave is a low-pressure hello. Chats open only when it's mutual, so nobody gets cold-messaged. Play games with the room. 14 games you play with the people around you, including Who Wants to Be a Butterfly, Imprompto, Emoji Off, Pair Play, trivia, poker and spades. A new live game every day. Make plans. Bar crawls, trivia nights, themed nights, spontaneous meetups. Join one or start your own and pack the bar. FIND YOUR SPOT A curated catalog of bars, lounges, restaurants, cafes and third places, filterable by happy hour, live music, karaoke, trivia, dog-friendly patios, dance floors and more. No fake reviews, no star ratings, no pay-to-play rankings. Just what each place is actually like, checked by real people. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO MOVED HERE New to LA, DC, Boston or New York? Finished college and discovered that making friends as an adult is weirdly hard? MapChat is for people who want their city to feel like theirs. PRIVACY FIRST Your exact location is never shown to strangers. You appear only at venues you check in to, only while you want to. Block or hide anyone at any time. We use your location to help you find things, not to track you or sell your data. NOW LIVE IN Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston and New York City, with more cities on the way. Request yours in the app. WHY WE BUILT THIS Loneliness is the defining problem of our generation, and the apps built to connect us mostly made it worse. Every other app wants more of your attention. We want less of it. MapChat wins when you close the app because you're busy being with people. Free. Come out and play.
Ratings & reviews
5.0
5 ratings
What’s new
Version Butterfly 2.2.0 · Updated October 10, 2026
A daily trivia game, "Who Wants to Be a Butterfly?" to give you another reason to come back to MapChat and see what is on, and who is out. Come Out and Play!
App privacy
The developer, Benjamin Boehlke, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Physical Address, Name, Email Address, Phone Number
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
- Search History: Search History
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Sensitive Info: Sensitive Info
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- User Content: Gameplay Content
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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