15 Best Tinder Alternatives to Try

Dating Coach Liz Harrington weighs in on some of the best dating apps

Co-authored by Darlene Antonelli, MA Reviewed by Liz Harrington

Last Updated: June 15, 2026 References

Are you tired of Tinder and want to try a different dating app? Fortunately, there are lots of options that are similar to Tinder. This wikiHow article lists alternatives to Tinder that you can use for online dating.

Top Tinder Alternatives

Dating Coach Liz Harrington says Hinge is one of the best Tinder alternatives. You can add a voice memo to your profile so potential matches get a stronger sense of who you are. Bumble, another popular option, recently got more flexible on its "women message first" policy. This may help some users feel less pressured.

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Bumble

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Find your honey. This dating app was created by an ex-employee of Tinder with the intent of building a safer and friendlier dating environment for women. For example, women aren't bombarded with message upon message after they've matched. Instead, only women can make the first contact on Bumble after matching, confirms Dating and Relationship Coach Liz Harrington.^{[1]
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Expert Interview} You can also have video and voice calls within the app, so Bumble users can meet each other virtually before meeting in real life!^{[2]
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- Bumble is free (but there is a subscription plan available).
- Put your best foot forward and create an awesome profile.

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Hinge

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The dating app designed to be deleted. By asking new users lots of questions and providing new profile prompts each month, Hinge is getting to know its users better to be able to match them better. You can comment on a section of someone's profile instead of the whole thing, so the app offers more ways of interacting with other users!^{[3]
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- Hinge is free, but there is a subscription available.
- Put your best foot forward and create an awesome profile!

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Plenty of Fish

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The most friendly way to date. An old and established platform, Plenty of Fish offers a large sea of fish/users for you to interact with. You can even message people without matching with them first.^{[4]
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- PoF is completely free to use, although there is a subscription available.
- You can write a pretty extravagant profile on PoF (Plenty of Fish), so ensure it's a good one.

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OkCupid

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Dating for every single person. This dating service matches you to others based on your shared interests, so you'll find other people who like dogs or gardening. So even though the questionnaires seem endless, answering honestly about yourself will get you more possible matches! So make sure you click or tap the right answers when you're setting up your profile on OkCupid to prevent someone with interests that you dislike (like vaping) to appear in your matches!^{[5]
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- OkCupid is free, but many advanced features require a premium membership.

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Badoo

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Date honestly. This app acts more like Tinder, so you can swipe to your heart's content. Unlike Tinder, however, you can chat via text or video to make sure you're really chatting with the person in the profile picture you swiped on. There's also an added feature that censors explicit content and warns you about it before you view it! Badoo is pretty bare-bones and doesn't feature a lot of profile questions, so you can just browse profiles to see if you find someone you like.^{[6]
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- The dating service is free, but there are paid features available.

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Happn

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Make it happn. This app shows you others using the app that you have crossed paths with during your everyday life. Although that may seem a little creepy at first, you can use this app to find hyper-local dates!^{[7]
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- Happn is free, but offers paid subscriptions.

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Her

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Your people are here. This dating service was built by the LGBTQ+ community for the LGBTQ+ community and sometimes hosts meet-ups and get-togethers; if there's one near you, you'll be notified through the app! While Tinder can feel like a throwaway app, Her aims to offer a more positive dating experience.^{[8]
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- Basic features are free, but using more advanced tools (like seeing who matched you) requires a subscription.

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Grindr

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The world's largest social media network for LGBTQ+ people. This free dating app allows you to meet like-minded people near you.^{[9]
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- This app is free, but you can upgrade to a paid subscription tier for more features.

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Coffee Meets Bagel

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The dating app for serious daters. Unlike Tinder, which allows you to endlessly swipe on people, Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) offers you a selection of users every day at noon, which you can "Like" or "Pass".^{[10]
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- This app is free to use but offers a subscription.

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Facebook Dating

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Add love to your Facebook experience. If you already use Facebook, why not try Facebook Dating? You can find people with similar interests by searching your groups for dating partners, and your profile is already made (using your Facebook profile), so you don't have to worry about creating one.^{[11]
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- Facebook Dating is free to use with a Facebook account.

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Hily

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Hey, I Like You. Hily is an abbreviated form for "Hey, I Like You," which mirrors the casual and young angle of the app. This service claims to use machine learning to recommend potential matches based on users' backgrounds, interests, and app activity.^{[12]
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- This app is free to use, but it offers subscription plans.

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Match

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Start something great. Match has been around since the mid-90s, which was before smartphones existed and before many people had computers! But there's a reason that Match has survived this long. It's changed with the times, allowing for new features, while maintaining older qualities.
- Basic features are free, but you'll need to pay for more some useful features (like sending and replying to messages).^{[13]
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The Sauce

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Make dating less dry. While this app is only available for iOS users, it boasts a pretty high success rate (95% of dates lead to a second date). The Sauce promotes more videos in your dating profile than static images, suggesting that the old profiles are boring.
- The service is completely free to use.

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Thursday

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The day for dating. While many chats with potential dates tend to stall or stagnate due to someone getting distracted or running out of things to say, this app prevents that from happening by allowing matches to talk one day a week: Thursday. This time limitation is meant to help you be excited for Thursday and the time you get to chat with your matches.^{[14]
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- The app is only available in NYC and London at the moment, so you can't use the app if you don't live there!

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Kippo

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Come hang out. This app is an MMOC (massively multiplayer online community) that allows people who love video games, pop culture, music, and fashion to get together in a virtual world. While Kippo doesn't exclusively consider itself a dating service, you can browse the profiles of other users in hopes of matching. You also fill out a form detailing which games you like as well as some other info about your dating preferences.
- This isn't a 2-D experience of other dating apps where you just swipe and look at profiles. Instead, you create an avatar that you can move around the virtual world in, just like an old Game Boy game. You can chill out, play games, audio-chat with people, hang out, and meet new friends or dates.^{[15]
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- Kippo is free to use, but there is an upgrade available.