Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Tinder
The 20 closest online dating alternatives to Tinder, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Tinder? The closest matches are The Blowers, Grindr and Bumble. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Tinder
Tinder gotinder.com
Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Summary by Claude
Tinder is a location-based dating app where users swipe through profiles, match with people they are mutually interested in, and chat. It also supports meeting friends.
- Who it’s for
- Single adults looking to date or meet people
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Tinder’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Tinder
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Tinder, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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smartphone dating/hookup application
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Grindr: The World’s Largest Social Networking App for LGBTQ People.
Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.
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Bumble | Date, Chat & Meet New People
Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while making connections, whether you're dating or looking for friends.
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Best Free Online Dating Site & App - Friends, Chat, Flirt | Badoo
Join Badoo’s community - the best free online dating app. Chat before you match, meet & date people in your area or make new friends from all over the world.
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Meetup | Find Local Groups, Events, and Activities Near You
Find Meetup events, join groups, or start your own. Make new friends and connect with like-minded people. Meet people near you who share your interests.
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LINE|always at your side.
More than just a messenger app. LINE is new level of communication and the very infrastructure of your life.
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BetterHelp | Professional Therapy With A Licensed Therapist
Get matched easily with a licensed, board-accredited therapist. More than 31000 therapists with 492 million+ counseling sessions are ready to help you!
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Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do
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LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
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GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
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AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running | AllTrails
Explore the outdoors with AllTrails, the best app for hiking, biking, and running. Discover curated guides, trail maps, photos, and reviews for over 500,000 trails worldwide.
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company owned by System1
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TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
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9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
- Amazon CloudFront
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Route 53
- Apple Business
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Security Check - Indeed.com
American worldwide job listing search engine
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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
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Whitepages: People Search, Phone Numbers & Addresses
Founded in 1997, Whitepages is the largest U.S. directory and trusted source for contact info and property data. Find people, phone numbers, addresses, and emails nationwide. Free and premium search across the Whitepages Identity Graph: 350M+ identity records, 4B+ data linkages, 112M+ property records.
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tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
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Hire Freelancers & Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer
Access the world's largest cloud workforce. 25.9+ million jobs completed across 3400+ skills. Post your job free, compare quotes, and hire top talent today.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gotinder.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Tinder uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Tinder is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf1.gotinder.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:am…
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: 1_uNGVZ70FlXaCcNBsGNFr4if6Pqvxdmd4wTzgtn50xWdckU33p6Bw==
- Hosting
- Amazon Web Services cookie AWSALB
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- Express header x-powered-by: Express
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf1.gotinder.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:am…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1990.awsdns-56.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=524cb03a118a8834795ef48a18932f5af8789dab7…
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=ySfArD90okMxGOgfUHlUeuRYVFYhk4mx0eC4SsR…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=z6QzqXI02U71AJm08eVI0g
- DocuSign TXT docusign=18b5f117-6c64-4579-80cb-7d9d7787178e
- Dropbox TXT dropbox-domain-verification=7pevbh7z0h75
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: QDIYEHbWnQr6CHseVU5UNrQYlcTf34CbLoP1wnvbOQ8
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=300f3kt8gdx2s5ywnyezxnv1qob2gf
- Miro TXT miro-verification=9d39f069838bed5b02e26472868d93e933534fe6
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=zyDTJHmujHSgoOSYVGCyo2334ECHYSZh2Q4idAdar4K
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-UyNoDNzrXrrzxXGo7WjaiwUI
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Tinder adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Apple Business · not on gotinder.com 10/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 9/20
- OpenAI 8/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gotinder.com 7/20
- Zendesk 7/20
- Next.js · not on gotinder.com 6/20
- React · not on gotinder.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on gotinder.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on gotinder.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on gotinder.com 4/20