However, the app’s creators have described Peeple as a “positivity app for positive people.”

Speaking to the Washington Post, co-founder, Julia Cordray, says:

“People do so much research when they buy a car or make those kinds of decisions, why not do the same kind of research on other aspects of your life?”

“As two empathetic, female entrepreneurs in the tech space, we want to spread love and positivity,” Cordray says. “We want to operate with thoughtfulness.”

Nicole McCullough, who also founded the app, said that, for her, it would help knowing who she could trust with her children.

The team took to their Facebook page this morning, to clarify some elements about the app, saying that:

"People are genuinely good even though Yelp has over 47 million reviews and all the users are anonymous and in that 47 million reviews there are 79% positive reviews. (We are not anonymous as users of the Peeple app which should make our positivity even higher than Yelp)"

A real life burn book: the app that lets you rate other people, whether they like it or not