Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Grindr
The 20 closest online dating app alternatives to Grindr, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 20 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Grindr? The closest matches are Tinder, The Blowers 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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- k = 20
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01 · Entity
About Grindr
Grindr grindr.com
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.
Wikidata: smartphone dating/hookup application
Summary by Claude
Grindr is a location-based mobile dating and social networking app for gay, bi, trans and queer people, showing nearby users for chatting and meeting up, with a web version for paying subscribers.
- Who it’s for
- Gay, bisexual, trans and queer men and people
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions and advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Grindr’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 Grindr
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Grindr, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
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smartphone dating/hookup application
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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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Genius
American digital media company
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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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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.
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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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dating website
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Ride or drive with Lyft
Request a ride whenever you need one. Drivers earn on their own terms. Download the app to get started.
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Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
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Grok
Grok is an AI assistant built by SpaceXSI. Chat, create images, write code, and get real-time answers from the web and X.
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ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
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product discovery website
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Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
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Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
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promotion & networking platform for digital designers and creatives
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YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close cos 0.877 - 20
Earn Money by Driving or Get a Ride Now | Uber Germany
Get a ride in minutes. Or become a driver and earn money on your schedule. Uber is finding you better ways to move, work, and succeed in Germany.
Close cos 0.875
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to grindr.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Grindr uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Grindr is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Website builders
- Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=2d486d28b3734851ba76393c726f501c
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=fb7710997b9764b794779216fd3204168dd98b5e65e689e4f…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630d2b5e3e62dd-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@finsweet/attributes-richtext@1/richtext.js
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/plyr@3.8.4/dist/plyr.min.js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms29911291
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1245.awsdns-27.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DCIgLhzlxWqLmK1y
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=khgDRBAjfdWVLV8MWUyjlfae5T6sj8Oo/5KeiEF…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=c1cba6a7-3c89-496f-abbd-a0e8594e43b7
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=gzLLvSn3M4vrJOea85nJ84jj0o3ImmMSlmc4xfxwG8M
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-KVtU7PnT6pTqHhlEwqWUoxsR
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_CvkacunjQA2eucdxNIaU9g
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Grindr adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Atlassian 10/20
- Zendesk 9/20
- Apple Business 9/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on grindr.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Stripe 7/20
- DocuSign 6/20
- nginx · not on grindr.com 6/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Next.js · not on grindr.com 6/20
- React · not on grindr.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on grindr.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on grindr.com 5/20