This website can supposedly tell you if your partner is on Tinder

If you suspect your partner is on Tinder without your consent, Vanity Fair reports there's now a website that can help you find out. For $5, Swipe Buster will use the person's name and location to see, via the dating app's API, when they were last using Tinder.

After running some tests, Vanity Fair said the service basically works, though it's spotty in larger cities.

The goal of the project, said the anonymous software marketing employee who dreamt it up, is less about making money and more about showing people just how much of their personal data is readily available online.

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"A lot of people are going to be like 'WHAT!,' and hopefully a lot of people are going to be more careful, and Tinder is going to say we have to XYZ to protect our API," he said. "I think the positive outcome [is that] a company is going to be protective of its users. We're expecting it to be quite impactful, and a lot more people will realize what kind of data they have online."

Of course, there's another simple way to find out if your partner is trying to meet other people.

"If you want to see who's on Tinder," a spokeswoman for the app said, "we recommend saving your money and downloading the app for free."