iPhone app wants you to 'poop for a purpose'

A mobile application released just last week allows iPhone users to chat with their friends and mostly strangers while they sit on the throne; and by throne, yes, the developers mean toilet.

 

The app is called “Pooductive” and the developers want users to “poop for a purpose.” 

 

Pooductive, however, does not only function as a real-time messaging application while you do your business; it also seeks to raise awareness for people across the globe who have no access to clean water.

 

“We hope to connect Pooductive with some big charities that focus on both clean water and improving hygiene in developing countries,” the developers said.

 

On their website, the application developers opened a fundraising campaign to help at least 663 million people get access to clean water.

 

As of this writing, only $60 or around P2,700 has been raised.

 

“Think of it as a magical place where people from around the globe can anonymously meet to enjoy their time of zen, peace and tranquility together, by conversing, philosophising and sharing ideas with each other,” the developers said.

 

Pooductive allows users to add and chat with friends, as well as have group chats, like any other messaging application. 

 

But the developers say “it's so much more” than a messaging app, calling it a “community, made up of people who are all in the same position as you…pardon the pun.”

 

Users can choose either to chat with other users near them based on their location, or they can chat with the global community. The app allows users to choose the distance radius of their chat partners. —Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez/ALG, GMA News