Best Alternatives to Hinge

Badoo Dating App: Meet & Date

One of the largest dating networks globally, focusing on honesty, local encounters, and casual dating.

4.0

Tinder Dating App: Chat & Date

Tinder is a location-based dating app for discovering profiles, matching after mutual interest, and chatting before deciding whether to meet.

3.9

Bumble Dating App: Meet & Date

Dating

Bumble is a dating and friendship app. How a conversation starts depends on the match type, region, and the features currently shown in the app.

3.8

Mamba Dating App: Make friends

Mamba is an adults-only dating and social-discovery service with swiping, detailed search, direct messaging, photo verification, and video calls.

4.3

MeetMe: Go Live & Stream Now

Social DiscoveryFriendship

MeetMe combines nearby social discovery, private chat, public live streams, virtual gifts, and optional profile verification for adults.

4.0

OkCupid Dating: Date Singles

Dating

A dating app famous for its thousands of personality questions, helping you find deep, meaningful matches.

3.4

SayHi Chat Meet Dating People

SayHi is an adults-only nearby social and dating app with map-based discovery, text, voice and video chat, profile browsing, photos, moments, and virtual gifts.

4.4

Plenty of Fish : Dating App

Dating

Plenty of Fish (POF) is an adults-only dating service with profile search, recommendations, direct introductions, messaging, and selfie verification.

3.7

Hinge: App Details

The dating app 'designed to be deleted', focusing on serious relationships and detailed profile prompts.

Platforms: Android, iOS
Pricing details: Hinge Dating App: Match & Date offers a usable free tier and optional paid subscriptions or one-time purchases. Prices, limits, included features, trials, and renewal terms vary by market and platform; confirm the official checkout before paying.

Pros

Forces thoughtful interactions rather than mindless swiping
Excellent profile prompts make starting a conversation incredibly easy
Attracts a user base generally seeking serious commitments
Voice prompts add a unique personal touch to profiles

Cons

Free users are strictly limited to only 8 Likes per day
The 'Standouts' tab locks the best matches behind a paywall (Roses)
Not ideal for people looking for casual flings or hookups

Safety Features

Photo verification
Block and report
Date from home feature

Why look for alternatives?

What Hinge does well

• Forces thoughtful interactions rather than mindless swiping
• Excellent profile prompts make starting a conversation incredibly easy
• Attracts a user base generally seeking serious commitments

Where it falls short

• Free users are strictly limited to only 8 Likes per day
• The 'Standouts' tab locks the best matches behind a paywall (Roses)
• Not ideal for people looking for casual flings or hookups

Top Picks Like Hinge

Users often look for apps like Hinge to find better pricing, different community vibes, or specific features that might be missing.

Hinge vs happn

happn is an adults-only dating app that recommends people you crossed paths with, using mutual Likes, Crushes, approximate crossing places, chat, and profile certification.

Dating

Pricing: Hinge: Freemium; happn: Freemium
Rating: Hinge: 3.5; happn: 4.0
Platforms: Hinge: Android, iOS; happn: Android, Web, iOS

Pricing

happn: Basic discovery and mutual-Crush chat are free; Premium, Supreme, packs, and optional visibility or contact tools use country- and store-specific pricing.

Safety Features

• Approximate rather than exact crossing locations
• Profile Certification
• Blocking and confidential reporting

What happn does well

• The crossed-path concept can make dating discovery feel locally relevant
• Regular messaging is based on mutual interest through a Crush

Where it falls short

• The experience is less useful in places with few active happn members
• Approximate crossing patterns can still reveal parts of a person's routine

Hinge vs Badoo

One of the largest dating networks globally, focusing on honesty, local encounters, and casual dating.

Dating

Pricing: Hinge: Freemium; Badoo: Freemium
Rating: Hinge: 3.5; Badoo: 4.0
Platforms: Hinge: Android, iOS; Badoo: Android, Web, iOS

Pricing

Badoo: Badoo Dating App: Meet & Date offers a usable free tier and optional paid subscriptions or one-time purchases. Prices, limits, included features, trials, and renewal terms vary by market and platform; confirm the official checkout before paying.

Safety Features

• Photo verification
• Block and report
• Safety tips

What Badoo does well

• International availability with location-based discovery
• Two ways to browse: Swiping or Location-based grid

Where it falls short

• Can feel very 'pay-to-play' if you want good visibility
• The interface is sometimes cluttered with ads and premium prompts

Hinge vs Tinder

Tinder is a location-based dating app for discovering profiles, matching after mutual interest, and chatting before deciding whether to meet.