--- title: For $9, This App Will Decide if Your Crush Likes You description: How can you tell if your crush likes you back? A new AI app called Mei does an analysis on text messages to evaluate relationships. authors: - name: Kristen Bahler role: Managing Editor url: https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/ bio: Kristen Bahler has spent more than a decade turning culture, work and consumer spending trends into conversation-driving stories. Today, she leads Money's sponsored content channel and reader-favorite franchises like Best Places to Live and Best Places to Travel. education: Northeastern University, MA Journalism at_money_since: 2016 articles: 52 covers: - Technology - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes social: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-bahler/ published: '2019-09-16T16:23:01.000Z' modified: '2019-09-19T16:53:55.000Z' section: Technology tags: - apps - relationships word_count: 304 canonical: https://money.com/app-crush-artificial-intelligence-mei/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Mei app YouTube screen shot](https://img.money.com/2019/09/screen-shot-2019-09-16-at-12.16.43-pm.png) Here's a *Black Mirror*\-style thought experiment to kick off your Monday: What if we lived in a world free of the agonizing self-doubt and crippling existential dread that comes with crushing on someone? What if, with the click of a button, you could instantly find out if someone *like* likes you or just wants to be friends? Would you push it? If you've ever been hopelessly infatuated, gotten ghosted, or swiped right for/by/on the wrong person, the answer's gotta be a "hell yes." Now, mercifully, [there's an app for that.™](https://www.wired.com/2010/10/app-for-that/) Mei, an AI "assistant" for "[texting relationships](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mei-messaging/)," debuted on iOS this weekend (Androids got the app last fall). The app is free to download, but you have to buy credits to really put it to work. Send "her" (yep) at least 1,000 words of WhatsApp text conversation, plus $9 worth of "Mei credits," and she (ugh) will judge, based on a 100-point scale, just how interested the person on the other end is at taking things to the next level, [*Wired* reports](https://www.wired.com/story/ai-apps-texting-flirting-romance/). Mei's website claims her (woof) technology can be used for sussing out communication patterns in many different types of relationships ("Does your daughter seem different today?"). But the casual dating scene is clearly the target market here. When Mei founder Es Lee [spoke to *Mic*](https://www.mic.com/p/how-to-tell-if-someone-likes-you-according-to-apps-analysis-of-your-texts-18752360) about the technology, he compared it to "a 30-year veteran singles bar barkeep who can flawlessly recall every conversation between patrons and deduce underlying intentions therein," the news site says: > “The creepiness factor is definitely there, but the reality is, we’re overanalyzing texts anyways," " Lee says. "We’ve got plenty of people that have their phones on, scrolling through the conversations, trying to get a good read. So now we’re just making tools available to people to make this just a little easier.” [Watch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9l49wU3c7o) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/app-crush-artificial-intelligence-mei/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Technology", "item": "https://money.com/technology/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Artificial Intelligence", "item": "https://money.com/artificial-intelligence/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "For $9, This App Will Decide if Your Crush Likes You" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/app-crush-artificial-intelligence-mei/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/app-crush-artificial-intelligence-mei/", "name": "For $9, This App Will Decide if Your Crush Likes You", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2019-09-16T16:23:01.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/app-crush-artificial-intelligence-mei/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/app-crush-artificial-intelligence-mei/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2019-09-19T16:53:55.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "For $9, This App Will Decide if Your Crush Likes You", "articleSection": "Technology", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2019/09/screen-shot-2019-09-16-at-12.16.43-pm.png", "width": 2836, "height": 1580, "caption": "Mei app YouTube screen shot" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kristen Bahler", "url": "https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/#author", "description": "Kristen Bahler has spent more than a decade turning culture, work and consumer spending trends into conversation-driving stories. 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