Best Dating Apps

Best dating apps for 2022

At the moment we have listed 14 dating applications. This ranking may change over time.

Rank	Dating App	For who?	App Store	Play Store
1	Tinder	Leading application for casual dating, with millions of users.	Yes	Yes
2	Match	Leading application for serious dating, with millions of users.	Yes	Yes
3	Grindr	Leading application for dating gay men, with millions of users.	Yes	Yes
4	Bumble	Application to make friendship, business or love meetings. The woman must make the first step.	Yes	Yes
5	Zoosk	Casual or love dating application. Millions of users.	Yes	Yes
6	OurTime	Dating application for singles over 50 years old looking for love.	Yes	Yes
7	Elite Singles	Dating application for demanding singles looking for affinity dating.	Yes	Yes
8	Silver Singles	Dating application for educated singles over 50 years old.	Yes	Yes
9	Christian Mingle	Dating application for Christian singles over 50 years old.	Yes	Yes
10	Hinge	Dating app for people who want to get off dating apps	Yes	Yes
11	Raya	private community where people come to connect for dating, networking, and friendship	Yes	Yes
12	The League	dating community designed for the overly ambitious that know what they want & refuse to settle	Yes	Yes
13	POF	Dating app to help singles find happy relationships.	Yes	Yes
14	1tense	New dating app 100 % free dating app to find love	No	Yes

1. Tinder, for casual relationship

With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people. The Tinder application has been made popular due to its ease of use, the ability to meet people for free, and its SWIPE and Match system.

To meet people on Tinder, it’s all about the profile picture. If you find an attractive single you can like. If not, you can pass. When you like a profile, the single receives a notification and can like you back (in this case there is a Match) or not. If there is a match, then you can start chatting.

The application is available on iPhone and Android and is used by tens of millions of users around the world.Tinder members are there for casual encounters but also for love.

If it is possible to meet people for free, the Tinder application offers paid subscriptions: Tinder+, Tinder Gold and Tinder Platinum. These subscriptions offer additional features such as highlighting your profile, getting more likes per day, removing ads, etc.

2. Match, for serious relationship

25 years of experience and real-life dating experts, Match app gives you the date-smarts you need to find what you’re looking for – from matching to meeting in person.

If Match first became known thanks to its dating site for serious singles looking for love, the launch on the application market was a bit late. The delay is now over since match offers on its application millions of singles looking for love. These singles are on the website version and on the smartphone application.

The installation and creation of an account on the Match application is free. You can fill in your profile with photo, description and interests, search for singles with the search engine and view the profiles of these singles. If you want to chat with other singles, you will need to purchase a Match Premium subscription.

3. Grindr, social network for gay men

Grindr is the most popular application for gay men in the United States. It is a social network where you can see the profiles of men near you, and chat with them for free. It offers the classic features of a dating application with some evolutions like the possibility to send audio messages (like in instagram) and the search engine offers advanced filters for example to have only profiles with face picture, search singles by weight, by height… so it’s very precise.

The application is free in the sense that it is possible to communicate with other Grindr members for free. Grindr offers two paid subscription packages GrindrXtra and Grindr Unlimited which allow you to be ad-free, see more profiles, have more filters, an incognito mode, etc.

Grindr is definitely the reference application for casual gay dating.

4. Bumble

The Bumble application was created by a former Tinder manager. Bumble empowers users to connect with confidence whether dating, networking, or meeting friends online. Same principle as on Tinder, you have to like the profile of the single and have a reciprocal like for there to be a Match. The difference of this application is that it is the woman who must write the first message.

In a short time, the Bumble application has become very popular in the USA. In the free version of Bumble, you will be limited mainly by the volume of contacts and swipes per day. Then there are two paid offers, Bumble Boost and Bumble Premium which offer features such as unlimited swipes, incognito mode, etc.

5. Zoosk

Zoosk is a dating service that, in just over 10 years, has experienced a meteoric rise thanks to social networks. Today Zoosk has more than 40 million members worldwide who are connected to meet for friendship or to find love.

The features of Zoosk are those of a free dating application while having a social network side with for example the Zoosk Live which resembles the Instagram or Youtube Live. The goal is to make online dating less complicated and more fun.

If until recently it was possible to chat for free on zoosk by private messaging, it is now necessary to take a subscription.

6. OurTime

Our Time is the #1 dating app for mature men and women. OurTime help singles in their 50s, 60s, and beyond spark meaningful connections. On this application you can meet more than one million singles over 50 years old. All of them are looking for a long term relationship to spend good moments with a new partner.

OurTime is a very easy to use application and a good way to meet a new partner. When you sign up you share a photo, a description and tell a little more about why you are signing up on this dating app. According to your search criteria and your interests, the application will propose you singles over 50 years old who might interest you.

The OurTime application is free, but you will need a subscription if you want to chat with other singles through private messaging.

7. Elite Singles

Elite Singles is an application for demanding singles, for whom work is an important part of their life and who are looking for the same in their future partner. At registration, there is a long personality test with more than 70 questions that you must take the time to answer (20 to 30 minutes). At the end of this questionnaire the application defines your profile and will propose you singles thanks to the compatibility algorithm.

On this application single architects, executives, company managers, doctors, etc.

Looking for a 30+ dating app? Educated singles? Over 85% of our EliteSingles members have completed above average education and our users are predominately aged 30-50. The registration and the personality test are free. To chat with other singles on the application you will need to take a subscription.

8. Silver Singles

Silver Singles is another dating app for singles over 50. The difference with OurTime, for example, is that it offers a personality questionnaire when you register in order to propose singles compatible with your criteria, your interests and your lifestyle.

There are a few less members than on OurTime but it is more qualitative. It is a dating application for singles over 50 who are still active. Registration is free and you will need to take out a subscription if you want to exchange via private messaging with another member of the Silver Singles application.

9. Christian Mingle

Christian Mingle is the most popular app in the US for serious dating with other Christian singles. It is the ideal dating app if you are a practicing Christian and religion is important to you as a couple. The application will propose you, according to your criteria and your interests, singles likely to interest you. You have the possibility to send a message or to like a profile that interests you.

Still, there are over 10 million members on the Christian Mingle app, making it a very popular dating app in the US. The app is free and you will need to take a subscription to chat with other members of the app. You could find your soul mate on this application.

10. Hinge

Hinge, designed to be deleted. This is how the dating application is presented by its creators. Hinge is the dating app for people who want to get off dating apps. 3 out of 4 times Hinge members want to go on a second date. Hinge is the fastest growing dating app in the US. The difference with all other dating applications is that it offers to chat mainly with audio messages. This allows you to meet people in a different way than by writing. A good way to make more original conversations.

The Hinge application is rather popular, the reviews are positive, nevertheless it remains restricted to an audience that is seduced by this concept. The application is free and a subscription is proposed for more features and options.

11. Raya

Raya to provide members access to exciting people and opportunities around the world. It’s a private community where people come to connect for dating, networking, and friendship. When you register with Raya, you are on a waiting list before you are accepted. Once you are accepted, you must indicate how long you want to be a member. The goal is to have a private and active Raya community.

Note that being a member of Raya is not free and that you can also pay if you want to pass the waiting list. It is therefore an interesting concept if you want to be in a private club to meet people. However, this means that there is no free trial.

12. The league

Join The League community and meet other ambitious folks who refuse to settle. Try a new (even more intelligent!) approach to dating. The league is the dating application that favors quality over quantity. Indeed, instead of offering you hundreds of profiles of singles in your area, the application offers you 3 or 4 to consult. The objective is really to make quality encounters because, if you see 3 or 4 profiles on your side, tell yourself that if a single contacts you, it is because you were also in the short list of this member.

You can sign up for The League as a guest and try the application. However, you will need a subscription to take advantage of all the features and appear in the search results of other members. In order to prove the success of its dating application, the league shares on its website the wedding dates of its former members…original!

13. POF – Plenty of Fish

Plenty of Fish is a fun dating application. When you register you have to indicate if you are here for dating, serious relationship or friendship. A personality questionnaire allows us to suggest you profiles that could interest you. It is an application that is very similar to Zoosk in its concept.

However, the big difference between Plenty Of Fish and Zoosk and all the other dating applications is that it is possible to send messages for free, without taking a subscription. Taking a subscription unlocks features, puts you in front in the search results and removes advertising. An app to try.

14. 1tense

To close the ranking, we present to you the application 1tense (pronounced intense), which is a new 100% free dating application for singles looking for a serious, long-term relationship and who want to find love. It is an application that is very classic in terms of functionality: ads, search engine, messaging, profile proposals…

There are currently ten thousand 1tense members on this dating service, so this makes it an application that is not yet popular but which deserves to be known because, the big difference with all applications is that it is 100% free.

Dating apps costs

All dating applications can be installed for free. You can also on most of them, create an account and use some of the features for free. This is called a free trial. Then, the majority of dating applications offer paid options or a subscription. Here are the prices below.

Dating App	Cost
Tinder	from $1.67/month
Match	from $9.99/month
Grindr	from $3.99/month
Bumble	from $29.99 (one time)
Zoosk	from $15.00/month
OurTime	from $11.99/month
Elite Singles	from $21.95/month
Silver Singles	from $37.95/month
Christian Mingle	from $14.99/month
Hinge	from $14.99/month
Raya	from $9.99/month
The League	from $67/month
POF	from $6.78/month
1tense	totally free

Best Dating App in other Country

If the leading applications like Badoo or Tinder are available almost worldwide, some dating applications are specific to certain countries. There are some applications that are more popular in Canada, Australia or the UK. Check them out.