These split into three kinds. One is the real Circle-matching quiz, which is how NexSpark Friends actually puts you in a group. The rest are standalone tools built to be useful on their own, whether or not you ever join a Circle: a compatibility seating tool for your own events, a national loneliness ranking and an interactive Atlanta data map, a couple of honest self-assessments, a shareable quiz you send to actual friends, a tool for generating better conversation, a friendship application generator, a book club starter kit, and two calculators.
NexSpark Friends Circle Quiz
The quiz that actually places you. A few honest questions about your interests, your availability, and what you're looking for in a Circle, then you're matched into a group of four to six genuinely compatible, verified people near you, with the first meetup already planned.
Find your Circle →Tables — Compatibility Event Seating
Hosting a mixer, rehearsal dinner, or wedding? Share one link or QR; guests answer a short quiz and get assigned a table with people they’ll actually click with — the same matching that builds Circles, pointed at your seating chart. Set your room’s real table count, drag anyone anywhere, seat the no-quiz holdouts by hand, or run it as a pure guest list with personal invites and door check-in.
Seat your event →The Loneliest Big Cities in America
16 major U.S. metros ranked by population-weighted loneliness, from CDC PLACES. Baltimore tops the list at 41.2%, Phoenix is lowest at 32.3%. Sortable ranking, chart, and the full dataset to download.
See the ranking →Atlanta Loneliness & Third-Place Index
An interactive map of all 1,006 census tracts across metro Atlanta, loneliness prevalence from CDC PLACES joined against Third Place Index community-space access, county by county. Explore the map, a scatter plot, and a sortable table, or download the full dataset.
Explore the data →Friendship Quiz
Twelve questions on how connected you actually are, scored across three separate dimensions, how often you're in contact, how well you're known, and whether it goes both ways, because those three shortages need different responses. Not a clinical instrument. Nothing saved, and your answers themselves are never tracked.
Take the quiz →Friendship Audit
Name one friend or up to eight, and work through the same honest questions about each: who initiates, who shows up when it's inconvenient, who you can actually relax around. No scores, no rankings, no verdicts, just a plain read on where each friendship actually stands. Nothing you type ever leaves your browser.
Run your audit →Best Friend Quiz: How Well Do You Know Me?
Answer ten questions about yourself, get a link, and send it to a friend, who takes the same quiz guessing your answers and gets a score out of ten. Your answers are encoded in the link itself, which browsers never send to a server, so there's no account and nothing stored anywhere.
Build your quiz →Question Generator
Deals questions one at a time to get to know someone, sorted into three registers, opening, turning, deepening, so a conversation escalates at the right pace instead of jumping straight to something too personal. Works one-handed on a phone, mid-conversation, at a table. Prefer a list you can skim first? We keep 134 icebreaker questions sorted by situation in the Journal.
Deal a question →Friendship Mini-Quizzes
Four short, specific quizzes, each built around one real pattern rather than a broad personality read: one-sided friendships, friendship drift, what's actually blocking you from making friends, and whether constant contact is the same thing as real connection.
Browse the mini-quizzes →Social Life Cost Calculator
Enter what you actually spend seeing people, and see what the same social life cost back in February 2020, plus how much of the increase is "friendflation" specifically rather than general inflation. Built on BLS CPI index ratios, not a guess.
Run the numbers →How Long to Make a Friend
Research puts casual friendship at around 50 hours together, and a best friend past 200. Enter the hours you've actually spent with someone and see where that friendship really stands, and why passive time together barely counts toward the total.
Calculate it →Friendship Application Generator
Build a real friendship application from your actual answers: availability, communication style, dealbreakers, and a short pitch. Get a shareable link or a copy-paste version for a caption or group chat.
Build your application →Book Club Starter Kit
Answer five quick questions, group size, genre, meeting frequency, format, and vibe, and get a personalized starter kit: a first-meeting agenda, a book-picking method, ground rules, and an invite message ready to send. Get a shareable link or a copy-paste version.
Build your starter kit →Atlanta Clubs Directory
12 real, free-to-walk-into Atlanta third places, on our Certified Third Place shortlist, filterable by trivia night, book club, supper club, or general social and outdoors. No membership fee, no application needed.
Browse the directory →Common questions
Are these friendship quizzes and tools free?
Yes, every one of them. No paywall, no trial, no upsell partway through. The only thing NexSpark Friends ever asks you to pay for is nothing; joining a Circle is free too.
Do I need to make an account?
No. Every tool on this page runs without an account and shows your result immediately. Only joining an actual Circle, which is a different thing from taking a quiz, asks you to sign up.
Is anything I type saved or sent anywhere?
No, not what you type. Every tool here runs entirely in your browser, so your actual answers, names, and messages never reach a server. The Friendship Audit carries no analytics of any kind. The Friendship Quiz, the Question Generator, How Well Do You Know Me, the Friendship Application Generator, and the Book Club Starter Kit track anonymous page visits like the rest of the site, but that tracking never sees what you typed. How Well Do You Know Me, the Friendship Application Generator, and the Book Club Starter Kit also encode your answers into the link you share instead of a server, so there's nothing to store there either. The two calculators just do math on the numbers you type; nothing leaves your device.
Which one should I try first?
If you're not sure where you stand, start with the Friendship Quiz, it's the broadest check-in. If you already have specific people in mind, the Friendship Audit goes deeper on exactly those relationships.