Tired of your coupled or married friends offering you condescending dating advice? Well now, with the help of Hinge Matchmaker, your friends can get in on the app-swiping game they potentially missed out on before finding true love. Hinge, the dating app founded by Justin McLeod and launched in 2013, looks to take its friend-of-a-friend approach to the next level by allowing people in relationships to bestow recommendations for potential matches to their mutual friends. The standalone Hinge Matchmaker app, available today in a beta version on the iOS App Store, relies on Facebook friend connections and even phone contacts to allow both single and romantically involved mutual friends to embrace their Cupid role. "Always wanted to choose matches for your friends? Have two friends that you think might be perfect for one another? Or are you single and want to have your friends set you up?" the iOS App Store description reads.

If you've got a friend you're dying to set up on a date, then there's good news as a new online dating app lets you play'virtual Cupid.' Hinge has unveiled a new standalone app called Hinge Matchmaker that lets people help their single friends to find love by suggesting matches based on your Facebook friends. The beta test version of the app is free to download, and is available to all Hinge markets in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India. Hinge Matchmaker gives people in a relationship a chance to set up their single friends, based on your Facebook friends who have a profile on Hinge. As the matchmaker, the power is left in your hands to decide whether your friend should connect on Hinge, with the option to send an icebreaker message to get the conversation started. As well as randomly recommending potential couples, Hinge Matchmaker also has an option for you to take control and select a specific friend you'd like to help by selecting the'lock' option on their profile.