Dating apps for Android 2020: If you're ready to navigate a sea of competing mobile apps, here are the best dating apps right now.

Tinder: the top dog

Tinder is probably one of the, if not the most famous, dating app of modern times. According to the creators, the app is used daily by 26 million users who have found over 30 billion matches so far. At Tinder you register with Facebook or your mail address. Then create a profile consisting of some pictures, your name, profession and age and a short text about you. In addition, you specify what you are looking for, how young your desired sex may be and then specify a radius in which you want to search.


Then you wipe through the profiles of potential partners in your environment. A Swipe to the right is a Like, a Swipe to the left is the opposite. If both users wipe each other's profile to the right, a match is created and you can chat with each other. As long as your interest is not reciprocated, the other users will not learn anything about your Like.

Tap on the respective photo to open the profile. Ideally, you'll see more photos, personal information, and shared interests or even friends determined by Facebook. Information such as body size or a link to the Instagram profile seems to be particularly popular. But be careful: Unfortunately Tinder also has a lot of fake profiles that want to lure you into porn services. However, you can simply report them via the app and then remove the connection so that there is peace.

Tinder is free, but if you want to use some premium features, you have to pay. This includes the possibility of doing over a profile swiped in the wrong direction or examining profiles outside your area.


Jaumo: get to the point


The flirt app Jaumo gets quickly to the point, if you have also installed the Facebook app. Because then you can log in with your Facebook account and you will be greeted with the first match immediately after starting the app. You can wipe it to the right in the usual Tinder manner - Jaumo calls it zapping - to accept it. If you also like the match, a notification will appear and you can write to the other member.



You can see new pictures of the matches in which you expressed interest in the map view. Tap one of the contacts for a short profile that shows your profession, interests, education level and smoking habits. Below you can see more pictures and at the end there is a line where you can start the chat.

Then there's the online radar. There you can see your hits sorted by distance and you can write to them spontaneously. You will be informed via notifications when a flirting person is near you. The paid VIP membership shows you "new and popular members", unlocks more features and removes chat and zapping limits.


Lovoo: better as a VIP


Lovoo uses location features to find other users near you. But you can also look around for singles in other cities in other countries regardless of your current location. The profile information is rather scarce. In the profiles you will find information on place of residence, relationship status, interests, occupation, housing situation, marital status, smoking behavior, education and religion.

But there are problems when you try to make first contact with a single. Apart from the fact that for the so-called "icebreaker" 250 characters seem too short anyway to introduce themselves, one regularly gets the announcement that the other person's mailbox is full. But of course Lovoo also has a solution for this: the paid VIP access. Because then you can make sure that the message arrives anyway.

The profile is hardly more extensive than that of Lovoo: you learn about the approximate location, common Facebook contacts, interests - also in the form of tags, and otherwise the basics such as smoker/nonsmoker, hetero/homo, size, hair color and so on. Only the brief self-description is really personal; here the two don't take anything.

However, long-term users report several fakes, which can be recognized by extremely attractive profile pictures and which invite you to another site after a few chat messages. On the plus side, at least 250 million people worldwide are registered with Badoo. This makes the giant ideal for getting to know people spontaneously and getting in touch with them.


OkCupid: good for accurate matches


The matching algorithm of OkCupid is much more sophisticated than that of Lovoo and Badoo and you are not yet completely on the commercial track, because apart from a profile boost for more visibility you get everything for free, which is useful for finding a partner.

For this online dating portal you need to bring some more time and effort, but it's worth it! Sign up, fill out your profile as detailed as possible, upload pictures and then answer any questions the app asks you. On the basis of these OkCupid determines potential matches that fit you particularly well (at least in theory). But you can also just browse through the offers or see people in your current environment.


Best for women in charge: Bumble


Bumble offers an intriguing twist on the typical dating app format. You swipe through matches in a similar way to Tinder, but men aren't allowed to message. With Bumble, women have make the first move.

For women who get frustrated with a bombardment of messages from men who have barely read their profiles, or men who get anxious trying to come up with that killer opening line, this can be a great way to make dating less stressful (of course, for women seeking women, it's basically business as usual, and men seeking men are still best served with Grindr).

Another factor is that matches on Bumble disppear after 24 hours if no further contact happens, so you won't spend days wondering whether it's too soon to send a message, or whether you're going to receive one. You either hit it off soon, or the app encourages you to move on.

Best for gay or bisexual men: Grindr


If you are not necessarily looking for a serious relationship, but rather to have a good time, you might as well go to apps dedicated to this, where, at least, everybody agrees! Grindr is a site designed for gay and bisexual men to meet. The application shows you profiles nearby, and you can start chatting with them.

Small tip: to make your profile go up in the lists, and thereby having more chances of making contact with someone, connect regularly, even if just for a few seconds.


Zoe & Wapa: women for women


Zoe is a very small platform compared to the other dating apps. It is not only a dating app for lesbian and bisexual women, but also a social network to make and maintain contacts in the lesbian community.

The app has similarities to Tinder in both process and design. First you create a profile with some pictures, your name, profession and age and a short text about you as well as how young your desired sex may be. Then you go in the periphery on the search and wipe also here the profile to the side, which pleases you. If you like each other, a match will take place and you can chat with each other.

Another popular dating app for lesbian, bi- or curious women is Wapa. Here you can show yourself with up to 10 photos on comparatively many pictures, and some even "lock" special ones, so that only chat partners approved by you can see for example your face. Even video messages are supported by the portal.



Source: androidpit