Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the fattest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker complicated Happn instils on you by demonstrating women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you begin getting paranoid you’re observing ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Trio | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are roped to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be fucking partners.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a phat ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no hook-up pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, elementary and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It indeed works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that embarked it all, Grindr has been helping fellows who like boys improve their hook-up lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Internal Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Inward Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, tho’.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first budge and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you undoubtedly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, indeed. Tho’ one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the best – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the bite of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the fattest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker complicated Happn instils on you by showcasing women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you commence getting paranoid you’re watching ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Three | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are tied to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be playmates.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a phat ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no hookup pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, ordinary and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It truly works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that embarked it all, Grindr has been helping boys who like fellows improve their hookup lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Internal Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Internal Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, however.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first budge and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you undoubtedly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, truly. Tho’ one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the greatest – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the bite of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the thickest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker complicated Happn instils on you by displaying women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you commence getting paranoid you’re watching ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Three | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are corded to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be playmates.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a big ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no lovemaking pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, ordinary and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It truly works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that began it all, Grindr has been helping boys who like guys improve their lovemaking lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Inward Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Inward Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, tho’.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first stir and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you undoubtedly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, truly. However one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the greatest – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the bite of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the fattest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker complicated Happn instils on you by showcasing women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you embark getting paranoid you’re watching ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Three | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are roped to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be fucking partners.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a big ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no hook-up pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, elementary and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It indeed works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that commenced it all, Grindr has been helping boys who like dudes improve their hook-up lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Inward Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Inward Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, however.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first budge and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you undoubtedly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, truly. Tho’ one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the best – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the nibble of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the thickest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker complicated Happn instils on you by demonstrating women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you commence getting paranoid you’re witnessing ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Three | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are corded to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be playmates.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a giant ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no hook-up pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, elementary and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It indeed works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that embarked it all, Grindr has been helping boys who like fellows improve their hookup lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Internal Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Inward Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, tho’.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first stir and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you certainly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, indeed. Tho’ one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the greatest – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the nibble of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the thickest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker elaborate Happn instils on you by showcasing women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you embark getting paranoid you’re witnessing ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Trio | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are tied to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be playmates.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a giant ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no hook-up pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, plain and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It truly works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that began it all, Grindr has been helping guys who like studs improve their hookup lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Inward Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Inward Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, however.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first budge and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you certainly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, truly. Tho’ one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the best – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the bite of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the largest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker complicated Happn instils on you by demonstrating women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you begin getting paranoid you’re witnessing ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Trio | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are corded to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be fucking partners.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a fat ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no hook-up pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, ordinary and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It truly works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that began it all, Grindr has been helping guys who like studs improve their hookup lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Internal Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Internal Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, however.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first stir and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you certainly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, indeed. Tho’ one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the greatest – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the bite of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.
Ten Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
9 Alternative Dating Apps To Tinder
Our verdict on the phone apps that want you to get fortunate
Whether you love or loathe Tinder, there is no denying it has switched online dating forever.
As a result there is now no end of apps with the same aim of helping you fall in love (or at the very least get laid).
Here, we take the largest alternatives to Tinder and give them a spin to find out what (if anything) they do different.
1 | Down
The USP: Gives you the chance to tell your friends (rather than strangers) that you want to sleep with them.
Pros: There is a strange thrill in being able to ‘swipe’ that acquaintance you’ve always fancied, asking them for a date (up) or telling them you want to sleep with them (down). Until you realise how pathetic it is.
Cons: It pulls in every single woman who happens to be your friend on Facebook, even if they haven’t joined Down yet (your cowardly come on will be waiting for them if they ever do), making it rather pointless.
Verdict: The more you think about it, the less sense Down makes. Isn’t the entire point of internet dating that you can meet someone fresh? This meet up app for friends (and friends of friends) is the equivalent of passing ‘I Like You’ notes in class.
Two | Happn
The USP: Meet up with the people you walk past on the street.
Pros: Once you get over the slight stalker elaborate Happn instils on you by displaying women who walked past your front door an hour ago, matching with users within a two hundred fifty meter radius is actually fairly handy. Chances are you live or work in the same area, so arranging a date becomes a lot simpler.
Cons: If the date goes horribly, there are no assurances you won’t bump into her when you’re buying milk a few days later. Also, spend too much time on it and you begin getting paranoid you’re witnessing ‘someone you liked on Happn’ every time you sit in your local cafe.
Verdict: One of the most effective – and convenient – dating apps out there. Until it isn’t.
Three | Hinge
The USP: Match with your pal’s pals (on Facebook).
Pros: The brashness. If you actively pursue a date on Hinge, discretion mustn’t be an issue – your friends are strapped to find out. This means having a handy mutual connection to discuss / slag off when you meet up for drinks.
Cons: It’s all a little too close to home: what’s to stop her feeding your dating tekkers back to your pal? It could make future beers with your mates a little awkward.
Verdict: This app permits you to eliminate the middleman. If you lack inhibition, Hinge could throw the door broad open.
Four | OKCupid
The USP: Endless personality quiz questions that give you a match percentage with would-be fucking partners.
Pros: You can weed out people with traits or points of view you find simply unacceptable. Racists, bigots and Mumford & Sons fans, then.
Cons: Too many basic functions are restricted to paid membership.
Verdict: Worth a shot, if only to kill time answering bizarre questions about yourself.
Five | How About We
The USP: Based around suggesting dates, rather than banging on about yourself.
Pros: Beautifully designed.
Cons: Not many people use it. Yet.
Verdict: One for grown ups. If dating apps have an ‘atmosphere’, then How About We is a pleasant summer garden party where people love polite conversation and no one makes an inappropriate lunge on anyone else until at least one am.
6 | Slew Of Fish
The USP: It’s a thick ocean, with more members than any of the others (around seventy million).
Pros: Unlike most of the other apps, doing the basics on POF – looking at profiles, sending and reading messages – is absolutely free.
Cons: A high number of sexually frustrated virgin-trolls means a lot of women find using it a harrowing practice, which understandably makes them cagey when you come along. It’s disheartening how many women have to resort to ‘please no lovemaking pests’ appendixs on their profile information.
Verdict: Effortless to navigate, plain and free to use, void of distracting gimmicks. And unlike Tinder, users tend to write a bit about themselves, meaning you have more to go on (and sell yourself with) than just your five least-worst selfies.
7 | Grindr
The USP: It truly works. If you happen to be gay, bisexual or nosey.
Pros: Effortless and efficient to use, you can find a hookup within minutes.
Cons: It is notoriously ‘glitchy’, with messages disappearing and some functions not working decently.
Verdict: The app that embarked it all, Grindr has been helping fellows who like dudes improve their hookup lives since 2009. Whether they are fair about it or not, every heterosexual internet dating app out there aspires to be the ‘Grindr for straight people’. Has is happened yet? Not even close.
8 | Inward Circle
The USP: Members are vetted, and they also run IRL singles events.
Pros: The screening process ensures out-and-out perverts are banished, which means everyone wins (except the perverts). The joy and well organised events means membership feels a bit more like a club, and less like pin-balling around a vast galaxy of random singletons.
Cons: After sending someone a message, you’re notified when they’re checking your profile, which means you can actually see yourself being rejected in real time. But hey, that’s life.
Verdict: Pulling together the best elements of other older dating apps, Internal Circle is the best all-rounder out there with the highest quantity of people you’d actually like to meet. £Five a week for the advanced user options is just too much, however.
9 | Bumble
The USP: Like Tinder, except once you match, only the ladies can make the very first stir and say hello.
Pros: It means women have an extra barrier against the ‘hey hun wanna fuk??’ brigade, which is good for all worried. It also means if she’s got in touch with you, you undoubtedly weren’t an ‘accidental swipe’, meaning you’ll be leaving less of those unanswered hellos that leisurely chip away at your soul.
Cons: None, indeed. However one minor gripe is that Bumble’s algorithm clearly pulls ten of the highest rated profiles to the top of your feed every time you log in. Parading the best – and least obtainable – women in front of your face every time you log in feels a little bit manipulating / cynical.
Verdict: A dating app where women need not fear to tread, where the bite of rejection is largely liquidated for you. Win-win.