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"Invisible Boyfriend" is an app that sends texts, calls and even mails hand-written letters to users.

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Welcome to 2015: There is now an app that creates a fake boyfriend for users.

"Invisible Boyfriend" is an app that not only helps people invent their ideal partner, but it also sends text messages, calls and even mails hand-written letters to those who sign up, Mashable reports.

The app was first launched in the form of "Invisible Girlfriend" in 2013, but both services officially launched Tuesday, Mashable continues to report.

According to the company's blog, the service is not just for people who want to, well, fake a significant other. It also "creates a safe space for you to practice texting with a real human if you're out of practice."

Matthew Homann thought up the service many years ago after a divorce and bought the domain InvisibleGirlfriend.com for $7, CNN reports. Homann put the idea on the back burner 2013, when he pitched it to a St. Louis hackathon and won the contest.

While still in its beta stage, "Invisible Boyfriend" is $24.99 a month and includes 100 text messages, 10 voicemails and one handwritten note, Business Insider reports. You also get to make your own story about you and your fake lovebird met.

And though "Invisible Boyfriend" may be absent in real life, there is actually a human being at the other end. Homann tells CNN some of that information is proprietary, however he says the St. Louis-based company has partnered with a service that has real people answering users' messages.

The respondents have been trained, so "date" nice, CNN adds.