Find your people in New York
New York is full of people worth knowing. Vairi helps you meet a few of them properly. It uses AI to introduce you to people who fit, matched on how you think and what you are going through, not on photos. You start anonymously, talk by voice or video, do things together, and can join a small online evening every Friday. Introductions are open in New York, every Tuesday at 7:30pm New York time.
How Vairi will work in New York City
Instead of scrolling through profiles, you answer a short interview and Vairi introduces you to someone it thinks you will actually get on with. Each introduction comes with something to do together, like watching a film or swapping a playlist. See how the matching works or view plans.
Vairi in New York
Vairi is for adults in New York who want a specific new friendship: after a move, a job change, or years of knowing many people in the city and being close to few of them. It is not a profile browser. Introductions are open in New York and across the US and Canada, every Tuesday at 7:30pm New York time, and you can be introduced to people elsewhere in North America who keep similar hours.
Members in the US can also join Friday Aperitivo: one hour online every Friday at 8pm UK time (3pm in New York for most of the year), at a table of up to six. It is free, voice first with the camera optional, and Vairi hosts with question cards. Read about Friday Aperitivo.
If you would rather meet people in person in a group, Meetup and Timeleft run group formats across the city, and Bumble BFF covers swipe-based browsing. See the full breakdown in Best Apps to Make Friends in NYC and our borough-by-borough guide to making friends in New York.
Common questions
Is Vairi available in New York? Yes. Introductions are open in New York and across the US and Canada, every Tuesday at 7:30pm New York time; your first comes after you join.
Can I get to know my match online before meeting in person? Yes. Conversations happen in the app first, anonymously; there is no requirement to meet in person, and you control when or whether that happens.
Is it safe to meet a match in person in New York? The same precautions apply as meeting anyone new: meet in a public place first and tell someone where you are going. See the Safety page for detail.
Last checked 22 October 2026.