Tinder (Android) - Free download Free Download Looking for mobile apps? Go to AppCrawlr Looking for business apps and software? Yes No Share Your rating has been saved Oops, something's gone wrong. Try again. Tinder is fully compatible with: Android 2.1 Tinder is also compatible with Android 2.1 Thank you! Your feedback will help us make software better for all of us. Oops, something's gone wrong. Try again. What's the issue? Close Apps & Games content ratings on Softonic Content ratings help you understand the type of content you might find in an app or game, so you can decide if they are suitable for you and your family. What do the ratings actually tell me? Content ratings describe the minimum age we feel the content is suitable for. It does not indicate that the app was specifically designed for that particular age, or if a certain level of skill is required to play the game or use the app. Where can I find the content ratings? You will find the content ratings on every app or game page. Why are some apps or games unrated?

If an app or game does not have a rating, it means that it has not yet been rated, or it’s been rated and we’re working to update the page. Rating Systems Softonic uses the rating systems by PEGI and ESRB. The ratings you see may vary by country or region. Tinder is the mobile dating app that makes meeting new people as easy as swiping left or right. Import your Facebook profile, and let the match making begin! Quick decisions Unlike conventional dating sites, Tinder relies on snap judgements using a strictly mobile platform. With nothing more than a few images, common interests, or mutual Facebook friends, you're forced to decide whether you want to give someone a chance, or discard them like yesterday's paper. People will only get notifications on Tinder if the interest is mutual, making it easy to declare your love without the fear of rejection, at least not immediately. Scan, swipe, match Tinder's home screen scans your location for people anywhere from 1 to 100 miles away. Once the list populates, you can swipe through and 'like' or 'dislike' someone by either swiping right or left, or by cliking the heart or the 'x' buttons. The only problem?

If you're swiping through too quickly and accidentally swipe 'no' to someone you wanted to swipe 'yes' to, there's no way of getting that match back. Tapping on someone's photo lets you scroll through the rest of their images, as well as giving you information about any mutual friends or shared Facebook interests. If you swipe yes, and the other person does too, you'll get a notification, and that person will be added to your Tinder matches so that you can message them, if you so desire. The best part, however, is that if you swipe yes, and the other person swipes no, they'll never know. So swipe away! Near or far Getting started with Tinder is really easy. Simply log in with your Facebook account, and the app automatically imports up to 6 of your profile images. You can change which images appear, but only to other photos from your Facebook account, by going to your profile, accessible through the menu located in the top left hand corner of the app. From here, you can also change Tinder's settings, including the maximum distance of suggested matches, as well as age range and sexual preference. The chat icon in the top right hand corner of the screen lets you access your matches and chats.

I occasionally experienced delays receiving messages, as well as a skewed interface in some chat windows after the iOS 7 update, but opening and closing the chat usually solves the problem. Another curiosity was the backlog of people I would get when travelling. I was 4000 miles away, and the app 'scanned my location', yet potential Tinder matches from my previous location were still popping up. Mobile match making heaven I can't say much about the quality of people you'll meet, but Tinder does everything it can to make the process of meeting new people easy. You may not find the love of your life, but the concept of the app is brilliant, and the execution is excellent: finding real people, close by, that want to meet, without the fear of blatant rejection. And, unless someone's gone to the trouble of making a fake Facebook profile, you can be sure that the person you 'like' is who they say they are. Let the swiping begin! Notes Clicking the download button will take you to the Google Play Store, where you can download the app.

Pros Mobile Love: 10 Dating Apps to Ramp Up Your Love Life | The Huffington Post Mobile Love: 10 Dating Apps to Ramp Up Your Love Life 11/27/2013 02:08 pm ET | Updated Jan 27, 2014 Julie Spira Author, Online Dating and Netiquette Expert, CEO of Cyber-Dating Expert, Media Personality, and Author of the Bestseller, "The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online." Years ago, we thought we couldn't live without the fax machine. Now, can you imagine living without your cell phone? According to the Pew Internet Project's research study related to mobile technology, 56 percent of Americans have a smartphone, and 29 percent of cell phone owners describe their device as something they can't imagine living without. I've often said that if your cell phone was waterproof, it would end up in the shower with you. That's how dependent and attached we've become to our smartphones. Enter the popular world of mobile dating.

Singles are finding themselves living in an instant-gratification world of push notifications, as they embrace mobile dating apps from their favorite dating sites, or try the new mobile-friendly apps to make new friends, casually hook-up, or find a serious relationship. As love continues to blend together with technology in everyday life, a variety of flavors of dating apps are helping to speed up the process for online daters. Several new apps, considered social networking apps or social discovery apps, were featured in this year's Mobile Dating BootCamp . The convenience of dating from your mobile phone not only results in meeting more people, but it also speeds up the process from initial contact to meeting in person, and it allows you to connect through Facebook to see if you have friends in common, which gives instant credibility to your potential date. From hook-ups to marriage, here are 10 mobile dating apps that I recommend to help singles in their quest to find the perfect date. First, let's start with the household names of the dating sites that you're probably already familiar with. If you're a member of one of these online dating sites, you can date on-the-go as you take advantage of their mobile apps, many of which have additional features than are found on their web-based versions.

1. Match: iOs, Android, and BlackBerry Match was launched in 1995, and is available in 24 countries around the world in 15 different languages. With over 15 million members, they're considered the world's largest subscription-based, online dating site. Their mobile app is a service for paid subscribers on more platforms than any other app. Match reports that more than 40 percent of user logins come from their mobile apps. How it Works: Users need to sign up for Match on their web-based service, and then download the app for their mobile phones. Once logged on, users can wink, view profiles, upload up to 24 photos, send and receive emails, add users to their "Favorites" and rate their "Daily Matches." Other Premium features include the popular "Who's Viewed Me" feature. Users can also sign up on Facebook and be notified of upcoming Stir (offline) Events on their mobile app. Download Android Download BlackBerry Download iOs 2. eHarmony: iOs and Android eHarmony is responsible for over 1 million people getting married since they launched in 2000. That's a number to brag about.

Their mobile app downloads surpassed the five million mark over the summer. eHarmony reports that users tend to access their mobile apps 5 or more times throughout the day, compared to twice a day on the computer. Over 40 percent of their user registrations take place in the mobile environment. How it Works: The app is free to download, and you can sign up, fill out your profile and questionnaire, upload photos from Facebook, receive daily matches, and communicate for free on specialty weekends. Paid members have the same functionality as the subscriber's web version. You can view photos, go through guided communication, see when a match last logged in, and read/write emails. Download Android Download iOs Download iPad 3. OkCupid: iOs and Android OkCupid is free, and it has a simple way to access the web version of their site on your mobile phone. The OkCupid mobile-only app is location-based, which makes it easy to find someone close by. How it Works: Users can sign in from Facebook, or directly on the mobile app, to find singles in their area. Accessing their "Locals" feature will show them people in their vicinity.

The app allows you to swipe right to "like" a user, or swipe left to "take a pass." If there is a mutual match, you'll find out immediately and will receive an email. Users can then visit their profile or send a message. Other features you can access from your mobile phone include: viewing the famous OkCupid questions, watching the activity stream of potential dates, saving a profile as a favorite, viewing your visitors, and ranking your potential dates from 1-5 stars in their "Quick Match" feature. Each user's profile will state your Match, Friend and Enemy percentages, similar to what you'll find on the web-based site. Upgrading to A-List, which includes anonymous browsing, is an additional monthly fee. Download Android Download iOs 4. PlentyOfFish: iOs and Android P.O.F. is one of the largest free dating sites in the world, with over 2 million Americans logging on to the site each day. P.O.F. reports that 80 percent of people who access P.O.F. from a mobile device do so from their mobile Apps. According to comScore, PlentyOfFish has captured 67 percent of the market share among mobile dating apps in the U.S.

The app is completely free, and is available in five languages, including: English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. How it works: Users sign up for free and can search for singles from their mobile app using new filters, such as: education, height and body type. Their Android app has a "Places" feature to provides users with a list of potential date hot spots. PlentyOfFish has also created a premium feature called "View Interaction," which tells singles if they've already interacted with a user. This means verifying if they've messaged back and forth, added each other to their "Favorites" list or viewed each others' profiles. This ensures that you're not wasting time messaging someone you've already reached out to. Users can also search for singles from their mobile app using new filters such as: education, height and body type. PlentyOfFish has always understood the importance of singles meeting face to face. Their new "Date Night" feature will tell other singles in your area that you're available for a date this weekend. The feature resets itself every week. Download Android Download iOs 5.

How About We: iOs and Android How About We now provides an online meet-and-greet, with the goal of being an offline dating service for both singles and couples. Their mobile app lets you view full screen photos, and dates of people in your area. Their goal is to connect online and meet offline at user created events. How it works: Members can sign up for free and post ideas for dates. This helps speed up the process, as often a member will have tickets for a specific concert or sporting event, and will list the date/time of the potential date. Users will find more than just suggested beach walks from their busy and active members. Members also receive real-time notifications when someone is intrigued by their date, or just to send recommended dates. To view your visitors, members can invite three friends for free to join the site, or upgrade to the premium membership. To send or read emails, you'll need to pay for a membership which runs from $8.99 per month to $34.99 per month. Download Android Download iOs Some mobile dating apps make the user experience like a fun game to play. Singles can take a break from work, or sit and watch television while scanning and swiping through thousands of profiles.

Yes, with these apps looks do matter, as in a split-second users will decide whether to select a profile or take a pass. 6. Tinder: iOs and Android As Tinder celebrates its one year anniversary, it's become the fastest-growing, location-based mobile dating app, as well as a household name. Tinder recently released a new version, which is optimized for iOs 7. While early adopters were found on college campuses, now everyone from Lindsey Lohan to the former Miss U.S.A., to your closest neighbors can be found flirting on the Tinder app. During this year's Mobile Dating BootCamp, just about every participant requested to use Tinder while looking for love online. Tinder reports that 54 percent of their members are between 18-24, and 31.6 percent are between 25-34. The app is simple to use, is completely free, and best of all, it is anonymous. How it works: Users download the mobile app on their iPhone or Android phones, and can connect through Facebook to create a profile. You can upload up to six profile photos.

Users scroll through potential matches nearby and click on the heart icon if they're interested, or they can click on the X icon if they'd like to take a pass. If there's a mutual match, you'll be instantly notified, and then you can start chatting in text message style, directly through the app. Tinder reports 400 million matches to date with approximately 4 million new matches per day. Download Android Download iOs 7. Let's Date: iOs Let's Date calls itself the "Instagam" of dating. Users sign and create their date card through Facebook. Once your profile is created, you'll have the ability to edit your profile if you don't want it to mirror your Facebook profile. Let's Date reports that 55 percent of their users are between 18 to 24 years old, and 40 percent are between 24 and 35 years old. How it works: Let's Date uses science to help match you with someone compatible on their mobile dating app. It's easy to create a profile for free and scroll through those which are sent to you.

If you're traveling, you can change your location to the city you'd like to start dating in, and fill up your date card before your arrival. Plus, you can link to your Facebook or Twitter accounts to create a more robust profile. Users can click on "Yes" or "No, Thanks" to profiles they've been matched with. If there's a mutual match, users can be notified by email to let them know that it's time to start chatting with their digital crush. You can also speed up the process by sending a flirt to the person you've selected for 99 cents in the iTunes store.They also have a "wingman" feature, which allows non-daters to view profiles and share them with their single friends through email, SMS, or Twitter. Download iOs 8. Zoosk: iOs and Android Zoosk is a top mobile dating app for iPhone users, and a top 10 grossing social networking app in the iTunes store. Zoosk reports that 55 percent of their mobile users are using their Android app, and 45 percent of are using the app on iOs devices. It's also hugely popular as a Facebook app, or it can be accessed via the web.

It is available in 25 languages with members in over 70 countries How it works: Users sign up for free, but if you pay for a subscription to Zoosk, you'll get unlimited winks and messages, full access to the ZSMS feature, can see who has viewed your profile and you can chat with the connections you make. The cost of subscriptions are: one month for $29.95, three months for $19.98 per month or six months for $12.49 per month. Download Android Download iOs 9. Badoo: iOs and Android Badoo is a free dating app that was launched in 2006, and it is a fun way to meet new friends and dates in a game-like environment. Badoo reports that they have over 197 million members worldwide, in 180 countries, with over 41 languages available and over 100,000 new mobile app users added every day. How it works: Users can sign in through Facebook and use the service on the web, as well as on their mobile dating apps.

Users can find singles with similar interests nearby to chat with, and their "Encounters" game helps connect them with possible matches. Their premium paid service includes a "Spotlight" and "Rise Up" feature to be able to be seen by more members. With "Spotlight," the member's photo and brief profile info appear at the top of every main Badoo page within their area or region. "Rise Up" instantly puts the member's profile at the top of the search results within their region. The "Super Powers" feature is a monthly service fee which gives users more control. Download Android Download iOs 10. Grindr: iOs, Android and BlackBerry Launched in 2009, Grindr has been a leader in the mobile dating, app-only service as the most innovative and successful, niche based mobile dating app in the world. Grindr has seven million Gay male users in 192 countries around the world. The average user spends 2 hours a day on the app, and logs in eight times a day. Over 200 million photos are sent every day from guys using their mobile app. Grindr reports that one billion chat messages are being sent in a given month.

How it works: Grindr is a location-based app where users can create a profile for free, upload photos, chat and meet. Users can view 100 profiles of men in their area. Premium users of Grindr-Xtra have an advertising-free service, and can receive push notifications even when the app is closed. Other benefits of Grindr-Xtra include the swipe feature to easily scan through profiles. The premium service costs between $12.99 per month to $64.99 a year. Tinder (iPhone) - Free download Free Download Looking for mobile apps? Go to AppCrawlr Looking for business apps and software? Yes No Share Your rating has been saved Oops, something's gone wrong. Try again. Tinder is fully compatible with: iOS 8.0 Tinder is also compatible with iOS 8.0 Thank you! Your feedback will help us make software better for all of us. Oops, something's gone wrong. Try again. What's the issue? Close Apps & Games content ratings on Softonic Content ratings help you understand the type of content you might find in an app or game, so you can decide if they are suitable for you and your family. What do the ratings actually tell me?

Content ratings describe the minimum age we feel the content is suitable for. It does not indicate that the app was specifically designed for that particular age, or if a certain level of skill is required to play the game or use the app. Where can I find the content ratings? You will find the content ratings on every app or game page. Why are some apps or games unrated? If an app or game does not have a rating, it means that it has not yet been rated, or it’s been rated and we’re working to update the page. Rating Systems Softonic uses the rating systems by PEGI and ESRB. The ratings you see may vary by country or region. Tinder is the mobile dating app that makes meeting new people as easy as swiping left or right. Import your Facebook profile, and let the match making begin! Scan, swipe, match Unlike conventional dating sites, Tinder relies on snap judgements using a strictly mobile platform. With nothing more than a few images, common interests, or mutual Facebook friends, you're forced to decide whether you want to give someone a chance, or discard them like yesterday's paper.

People will only get notifications on Tinder if the interest is mutual, making it easy to declare your love without the fear of rejection, at least not immediately. Tinder's home screen scans your location for people anywhere from 1 to 100 miles away. Once the list populates, you can swipe through and 'like' or 'dislike' someone by either swiping right or left, or by cliking the heart or the 'x' buttons. The only problem? If you're swiping through too quickly and accidentally swipe 'no' to someone you wanted to swipe 'yes' to, there's no way of getting that match back. Tapping on someone's photo lets you scroll through the rest of their images, as well as giving you information about any mutual friends or shared Facebook interests. If you swipe yes, and the other person does too, you'll get a notification, and that person will be added to your Tinder matches so that you can message them, if you so desire. The best part, however, is that if you swipe yes, and the other person swipes no, they'll never know. So swipe away! Near or far Getting started with Tinder is really easy.

Simply log in with your Facebook account, and the app automatically imports up to 6 of your profile images. You can change which images appear, but only to other photos from your Facebook account, by going to your profile, accessible through the menu located in the top left hand corner of the app. From here, you can also change Tinder's settings, including the maximum distance of suggested matches, as well as age range and sexual preference. The chat icon in the top right hand corner of the screen lets you access your matches and chats. I occasionally experienced delays receiving messages, as well as a skewed interface in some chat windows after the iOS 7 update, but opening and closing the chat usually solves the problem. Another curiosity was the backlog of people I would get when travelling. I was 4000 miles away, and the app 'scanned my location', yet potential Tinder matches from my previous location were still popping up. Mobile match making heaven I can't say much about the quality of people you'll meet, but Tinder does everything it can to make the process of meeting new people easy.

You may not find the love of your life, but the concept of the app is brilliant, and the execution is excellent: finding real people, close by, that want to meet, without the fear of blatant rejection. And, unless someone's gone to the trouble of making a fake Facebook profile, you can be sure that the person you 'like' is who they say they are. Let the swiping begin! Notes Clicking the download button will take you to the App Store, where you can download the app. Pros Hate It Or Love It, Tinder’s Right Swipe Limit Is Working | TechCrunch Hate It Or Love It, Tinder’s Right Swipe Limit Is Working Posted Advertisement Tinder has been making waves the past month with the introduction of Tinder Plus , a premium tier of the service that adds extra features like the ability to rewind a left swipe or search for potential matches in a different city. However, Tinder Plus also brings a new “right swipe limiter” into the mix, as users who swipe right too much or too often in a 12 hour period will run out of likes unless they upgrade to Tinder Plus (which is between $9.99 and $19.99/month, depending on age) .

As you might expect, some users who are running into the right swipe limiter (internally called Bouncer) are outraged by the change . Some people have grown accustomed to using Tinder in a specific way. According to a blog post from Tinder , the company has seen “a small number of users who only swipe right just to see who likes them back.” They won’t say what percentage of users have displayed this behavior, or how that percentage has decreased or increased over time. But the company indicates that the right swipe limiter is working. “When you get as big as Tinder, with as many different types of users, we’re bound to make decisions that will disappoint a certain amount of edge-case users,” said Tinder CEO Sean Rad in an interview with TechCrunch. “But we make them for the greater good of the community as a whole.” All Right Everything You know this person. The one who swipes right on everybody just to examine people who liked them and then unmatch the ones they’re not interested in. In fact, a Glossary of Tinder terms in The Awl gave this user a name back in 2013: The Indiscriminate Narcissist. This is the behavior that Tinder would like to ‘correct’.

But this behavior is bigger than Tinder. Though the dating app lists under the Lifestyle section instead of the Social section of the App Store, I think the generation of users that are active on Tinder see it as yet another social network built for dating, like Twitter is with public sharing or Facebook is with keeping track of friends or Instagram is for sharing photos. The list goes on and on, and in each case down the list, the user expects more. We want more followers, friends, likes, snaps, taps, and everything in between. More. The Bad News “Just like Dunbar’s Rule , there is a Tinder rule,” said Rad. “You can only maintain so many relationships at any given time, and that holds true on Tinder in its own way. If you go past a certain point with the amount of people you swipe right on, there is a diminishing return on every match.” Tinder, then, is faced with the challenge of maintaining the value of a match while offering a product that inherently begs the user to do more. Latest Crunch Report Watch More Episodes After all, isn’t Tinder a game as much as it is a messenger or a platform to meet new people?

I’ve heard of impromptu Tinder parties, where a group of friends gather around a screen and vote collectively on swiping left or right. I, myself, have had people hand over their phone — “swipe for me for a while,” they say — as though the act of judging other humans, with another human, is a cherished pasttime. And if we put anecdotal behavior stuff aside, we can point to the obvious truth: The actual design of Tinder is based around a deck of cards. Can’t get much more gamified than that. Users want to swipe more because that is the game of Tinder, but the match is the equivalent of a turbo-charged Like on another social network. It’s not just a friend giving you a hat-tip on your photo or some random follower favoriting your tweet. It’s someone who might actually like you. Someone who may potentially want to have sex with you. The stakes are raised, and so is the reward. Sure, it saves time to swipe right on everyone, narrow down your choices to people who have already stated their intentions by swiping right on you, and clear out the rest. It’s a lower stakes game.

You know everyone who is interested in you, and the ball is entirely in your court. But when you know you’ll get rid of 90 percent of your matches after doing this, the match itself ceases to matter all that much. What’s worse, the Indiscriminate Narcissist is not only bringing down the value of a match for themselves, but they are bringing down the value of a match for every person they get paired with. The Good News People are going to be upset when they hit their like limit, that’s a given. But Tinder says it’s seeing positive results thus far. Ten days into launch, Tinder is seeing a 25 percent increase in the number of matches per right swipe, and a 25 percent increase in the number of messages per match. Plus, spam bots, Bouncer’s primary target, have decreased more than 50 percent since launch. “We made unlimited likes a paid feature because it would be a big enough barrier to entry for spam bots to cut out that usage, but we still want our users to have the freedom to use Tinder in whatever way they want,” said Rad.

“It’s a platform at the end of the day.” Plus, the app just introduced new reporting features that give users more control over the process of giving feedback. For example, users can report bad offline behavior after meeting up with someone (who might have been a jerk). The reporting process lets user report the reason each time they unmatch or report another user, which Tinder then uses to notify the offending party, giving people the chance to correct their behavior before getting booted from the app entirely. Tinder has created an ecosystem that is nearly ubiquitous. There are more dating apps out there than I can count (I’ve covered lots of them) and none have the same reach and engagement as Tinder. And that’s where it’s success comes from. Crunchbase Dating Apps: How To Find The Perfect Dating App for You | Greatist LIKE US ON FACEBOOK Get More Greatist in Your Life READ THIS NEXT {{displayTitle}} READ In today’s culture, you’re more likely to meet a potential suitor using a dating app than you are at a bar. In fact, more than 40 million people in the U.S. have tried online dating, a number that accounts for two in five single American adults.

At the same time, stigmas about online dating and dating apps have weakened since mainstream America was first introduced to the concept through the eyes of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as star-crossed lovers in You’ve Got Mail (which came out more than 15 years ago). Now, six in 10 U.S. adults view “ online dating as a good way to meet new people .” These services have proved to be lucrative businesses too, with the online dating and dating app market bringing in more than $2 billion in revenue in 2013. The rise in popularity means new apps keep popping up. They offer everything from the mainstream, game-like interface of Tinder to the niche community for farmers and ranchers found on FarmersOnly . With so many options, finding the right dating app can be just as difficult as finding your soulmate. That’s why we created this foolproof flow chart. Just answer the prompts to find which app is best for you. We’ve also included handy write-ups below, just in case you haven’t become dating app gurus (like us) who know the difference between Coffee Meets Bagel and Loveflutter . 1.

ChristianMingle Like the name suggests, the site is geared toward single Christians looking to meet mates who share the same religious background and beliefs. The service models both its interface (profiles with long open-ended essays) and paid subscription model off more general dating sites, like Match.com, making it easy to use but somewhat time consuming to create and maintain. The site’s tagline, “find God’s match for you,” has drawn controversy from some segments of the Christian community for seeming to imply divine power. 2. Coffee Meets Bagel Good things comes to those who wait. At least that’s the premise of this niche dating app. Users are offered up one match everyday at noon (aka “a bagel”) who they likely share mutual friends with on Facebook. They have 24 hours to select or pass. If both parties choose each other, they are given an ice breaker question (like “Which bars do you have bookmarked on Yelp?” and “What’s your favorite late night snack?”) to get the ball rolling. The app is geared toward urban young professionals—NYU, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania are the most popular alma maters . 3.

Farmers Only As the site’s tagline says, “city folks just don’t get it.” The app is designed for single farmers (as its name would suggest), but also ranchers and really any eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in rural America. Users can upload photos, fill out short essay sections, and chat with others who live off the land. 4. Grindr What’s better than gaydar? Grindr. This location-centric app provides users with a grid of men seeking men who are available (and online). The realtime aspects of the app can quickly become addicting—users spend an average of 90 minutes a day on Grindr. The app was designed to facilitate hooking up, but users have the option of selecting that they’re looking for everything from “right now” to “networking” (really?). 5. Grouper First dates can be awkward, so why not bring along friends? (We promise we’re not talking about some sort of blind-date threesome.) Grouper is an app that pairs three single friends with another trio that shares some of the same interests. Grouper selects the bar and claims to pay for the first round.

But considering you fork over $20 to go on the date, it’s not exactly on the house. Throughout the date, Grouper texts a series of dares, which function as a form of group bonding and can be anything from staging a fake breakup to taking a selfie with a stranger. And while the app doesn’t prompt you the pair off, isn't that more or less inevitable as the night wears on? 6. Hinge If you’re the type of person who likes vetting potential suitors before the first date, Hinge is the app for you. The app only serves up potential matches with whom you share mutual friends with on Facebook. There’s even an “ask” button, which allows users to send a quick message to mutual friends to ask if they think this mystery date would be a good match. And set up couldn’t be easier, as there’s no profile to fill out. Instead, users are asked questions about their Facebook friends, such as “Who would be your boss one day?” and “Who would adopt a stray puppy?” These answers lead to personality traits (like optimistic and comical) being added to your profile. Luckily, the traits are all positive—so you can keep those skeletons in the closet, for now.

7. HowAboutWe Billed as the “offline dating site,” HowAboutWe was built on the premise that you can tell more about people by what they like to do than how they respond to personal essay questions. New users are prompted by the simple phrase “how about we” and asked to suggest a date idea. Users are emailed a daily list of potential matches based on shared interests (and date ideas). Asking a mate out on a first date is so much easier when you already know if they are more likely to go bungee jumping or boozing at the local bar. 8. JDate If you’ve got a bubbe asking when you’re getting married, this is the perfect site to find your mate. The dating service is geared toward Jews, but allows users to select religious affiliation on a spectrum from culturally Jewish to Orthodox. Like Match.com, JDate has a strong paid subscriber base. This site plays on tongue-in-cheek humor with the slogan “get chosen ” and a banner reading, “find someone who still loves sleepaway camp” on JDate TV , the dating site’s YouTube channel. 9. JSwipe If Tinder and JDate had a love child, it’d be JSwipe.

The service hit the app store in the middle of Passover this year, and like Tinder, simply requires you to swipe right if you’re interested and swipe left to pass. When you get a match, the screen illuminates with the words “Mazel tov!” and chair-lifting stick figures dancing the Horah . A few glasses of Manischewitz is all the liquid courage you need to start! 10. Loveflutter More often than not, we’re quick to judge a book by its cover—or in this case, a dating profile by its main photo. The founders of Loveflutter, who bill it as the app where quirky people meet, believe in the power of words. When you open up the app and look for potential matches, you’ll find their faces are blurred. Instead, your focus is drawn to an 140-character message. If you and an adorkable potential suitor woo each other with wit and poeticism, you’ll get a mutual match and finally get to see each other's faces. Oh, and did we mention that Loveflutter will send location-based first date recommendations? This really is Zooey Deschanel in dating app form. 11.

Match.com This service has been kicking around for more than two decades—first as newspaper classifieds, then as a website, and eventually as an app. With 1.9 million paid subscribers, Match.com remains one of the few holdouts that still manages to succeed with a pay model. Users simply set up profiles with open-ended essay sections, and hope for the best. 12. OkCupid If this app were in high school, it’d be captain of the mathletes. Users answer questions—the average person answers 350 of them —to determine their personal likings, characteristics, and what they’re looking for in a match. Then, a sophisticated algorithm (the site was founded by four math majors at Harvard , after all) tells users their percentage match with other users. It also has a Tinder-eqsue feature where users can rank potential mates and receive notifications if mutually given 4 or 5 stars (which in Tinder terms means swiping right). 13. OneGoodLove When it comes to finding a dating app that’s not focused on hooking up, gay men appear to have the deck stacked against them.

That’s why one former business developer at Match.com launched OneGoodLove, a LGBTQ dating site that aims to foster long-term relationships. The service focuses on the quality of connections over the quantity of matches. 14. Plenty of Fish POF is one of the oldest (launched in 1999) and largest ( 70 million users worldwide ) dating sites out there. Users answer questions as part of the service’s chemistry predictor, which measures things like self-confidence, self-control, and easygoingness. Then, a mathematical algorithm churns out potential suitors, giving you better odds at being a good match. Chances are you’ve seen product placements for POF in music videos like Britney Spears's “ Hold it Against Me ” and Lady Gaga’s “ Telephone .” 15. Revealr Have a sultry voice that makes suitors shake in their boots? Then Revealr is the app for you. Users record a 20-second message, and members swipe through the audio recordings of potential matches in a Tinder-like fashion. If both parties match, they get to see one another's profile photo and start chatting. We have a feeling Barry White would have done well on an app like this. 16.

Siren What if we flipped the switch on centuries of courtship and said women should make the first move? That idea is the motivation behind Siren, a new app that turns the concept of the Sadie Hawkins dance into a reality. Users answer one question per day in an effort to show their authentic self—at least more authentic than you’d get from the typical "about me" section. Sample questions include: “What’s a hidden gem in Seattle?” and “What did you want to be when you were a child?” Women select who they want to start chatting with based on the answers of potential suitors. 17. Tinder This app is tailor-made to the limited attention spans of 20-somethings. Users are served up an endless buffet of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes. Swipe right on a photo if you’re interested, and swipe left to pass. If both parties swipe right, a match is made, and only then can you start chatting. (Say goodbye to unrequited love.) The makers of Tinder have smartly turned this act of swiping into a game.

When a match is made, users have the option to “send a message” or “keep playing.” Looks like we forgot to listen to the Backstreet Boys’ plea in the band’s infamous balled .

Question: In which mobile app do you "swipe" the screen to assess potential love interests?
Answer: Tinder