Tindervs
Bumble
Bumble: Make the first move
Tinder
Swipe right to find your match
As of 30 August 2026, Tinder is free to use. Tinder is the world's most popular dating app, revolutionizing how people meet with its iconic swipe-based interface. Softwr lists it under Dating. Tinder is made by Match Group, launched in 2012, available on iOS, Android, Web.
Overview
What Tinder does
Tinder is the world's most popular dating app, revolutionizing how people meet with its iconic swipe-based interface. Users can swipe right to like or left to pass on potential matches, and when two users both swipe right, it's a match. The app offers features like Super Like, Boost, and Passport to enhance the dating experience and connect with millions of users worldwide.
What people use it for
- Meeting nearby people through a swipe-based matching interface
- Chatting with mutual matches before meeting in person
- Arranging Double Dates by bringing a friend into the match
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Tinder.
- Tinder states that no cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period
- Paid subscriptions renew automatically and are charged within 24 hours before the end of the current period unless auto-renew is turned off in App Store settings
- Extra discovery, matching and expression features are split across three separate paid tiers, Tinder Plus, Tinder Gold and Tinder Platinum
- The iOS app requires iOS 16.0 or later
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Tinder
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- TindervsHinge
Hinge: Designed to be deleted
- TindervsMatch.com
Match.com: Start something real
- TindervsOkCupid
OkCupid: Dating deserves better
Pricing
What Tinder costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Swipe
- Matches
- Messaging
Tinder Plus
$9.99 /mo
- Unlimited Likes
- Passport
- Rewind
- 5 Super Likes
Tinder Gold
$29.99 /mo
- See Who Likes You
- Top Picks
- All Plus Features
Tinder Platinum
$39.99 /mo
- Priority Likes
- Message Before Matching
- All Gold Features
Capabilities
Features
Swipe Matching
Instant Messaging
Photo Verification
Super Like
Boost
Passport
Spotify
Integration with Spotify
Instagram
Integration with Instagram
Ios support
Available on ios
Android support
Available on android
Web support
Available on web
Behind it
Who makes Tinder
- Company
- Match Group
- Based in
- West Hollywood, California, USA
- Founders
- Sean Rad, Justin Mateen, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Jonathan Badeen
Keep looking
Where to go from Tinder
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Compare Tinder with
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- Grindr
- Bumble
- Facebook Dating
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- eHarmony
- Happn
- HER
- Quora
- Clubhouse
- Geneva
- Facebook Dating
- Christian Mingle
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- JDate
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- JDate
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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Tinder, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.
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