Tinder vs. Happn vs. OkCupid: What's The BEST Dating App?
The mobile age has brought us many innovations and switches, some fine, some questionable, and none more signficant than those which seems to signficantly alter elements of our culture.
One of those big switches is now the subject of many articles across the web – dating. Yes mobile apps and online dating have, like it or not, switched the way we date. For better or worse – it’s still open to debate, and the response may be a bit of both truly.
It’s lighter than ever to “meet” people thanks to our mobiles nowadays. There’s a smorgasbord of dating apps out there suggesting an array of different people and dating practices – everything from true love to no strings hook-up, and unlike going up to someone in the real world, these dating apps also give us an added layer of protection from a bruised ego (or face).
You can like someone without them knowing unless you’ve liked them back. You can contact someone without, truthfully, putting much effort into it. And you can even downright falsify an entire identity to make you look more attractive or be more cool than you are without your interests being any the wiser (at least until you actually have to meet).
There are slew of other viable alternatives now as well, such as Coffee Meets Bagel and the AWESOME Bumble, which is very similar to Tinder, save for the fact that only ladies can instigate conversations. Bumble was set up by one of Tinder’s co-founders and is designed as a rebuttal to the often creepy and sinister world of Tinder.
By putting women in charge, weirdo guys (because there’s slew on Tinder) are left pretty much powerless, which is always a good thing. Bumble is only available on iPhone at present. An Android app is in the works, evidently, but we’ve yet to see any developments in latest months.
But as is often the case online, not everything is as it may very first show up –– there’s slew of spam artists and masculine/female catfish.
"More than four in ten people who use the dating app are already in a relationship. One in ten are going out with another person, whilst three in ten are supposedly so committed that they have stood up in front of their friends and taken vows,” reports The Daily Mail. “Even so, they have signed up to the dating app, which permits people to scan for other users nearby, and determine whether they like the look of them based on their photographs.”
Happn does things a little differently than both Tinder and OKCupid, however, and is all about proximity. And this treatment kind of makes sense too: you’re more likely to have something in common with somebody at a similar gig, pub or night venue than you are with a accomplish stranger you just happened across during a ten minute swipe-break at work.
More than a quarter-of-a-million of French users subscribed to the app within months of the app launch, and Ten,000 Londoners quickly followed, according to The Guardian.
Around 38% of Tinder’s users are aged inbetween sixteen and 24, according to research conducted by GlobalWebIndex, while 45% fall in the twenty five to thirty four bracket. Just 4% are over the age of 45.
Tinder is more popular in towns and cities compared to rural areas and has, globally, been downloaded more than 50million times since 2012.
Here’s A Bunch of Tinder Facts (via)
- There are 150,000 Tinder users in Ireland. [1]
- Boys swipe “like” on a woman’s profile on average 46% of the time. Women swipe “like” on a man’s profile on average only 14% of the time. [1]
- Tinder is the winner of the two thousand fourteen Editor’s Choice Top Pick – Innovative Award. [Two]
- Women will swipe right 74% of the time when showen a man with well groomed facial hair. These dudes also recieve 37% more matches than fellows without facial hair. [Trio]
- Activity from users on Valentine’s Day surpassed any day since Tinder launched in 2012. [Four]
- On Valentine’s Day this year Tinder users who logged in experienced a 60% increase in matches. [Four]
- Tinder projects to have forty million active monthly users by April 2015. [Five]
- Tinder Plus is launching in the United States in March. [6]
- Tinder Plus is designed to help reduce spammers by limiting the number of swipes a non paying member can do everyday. [6]
- Tinder partnered with Telesign to help combat fraudulent accounts on the dating service. According to the CTO spam traffic is down by about 90%. [7]
- A Tinder account can now be connected with an Instagram account. If done so, other members can view the last thirty four pictures the Tinder member posted on Instagram. [8]
- Hilary Duff confirms she has a profile on Tinder and has been out on one date with another member. [9]
By some counts dating apps are the most popular downloads among the 20s crowd –– even more popular than games and messaging apps. When people think of dating apps, their very first thought is very likely of Tinder, specifically because the app very first found traction with college-aged kids. But there are other popular dating apps that are up and coming, such as Happn as well as attempted and true dating apps like OKCupid, and premium services like E-Harmony.
We take a look at all three to see which is best for your love life.
Tinder
Cost of premium service: Tinder Plus £3.99 or £14.99 a month
Ah, Tinder. We all know thee well. Despite the “hookup” reputation Tinder has there is no denying it’s a brilliantly elementary app. Tinder works by displaying you pics of people in your area. Swipe left to reject them, swipe right to like them. If you like someone who likes you you’ll be notified of a match. You can then send them a in-app message to begin talking. When Tinder very first came out its photo stack swipe navigation was the most brilliant UI a dating app had ever seen (and now one much copied).
The good thing about Tinder is that it has a ton of users. The bad thing about Tinder is that it’s so superficial (only displaying photos of a person by default) that many times people just attempt to game the system by swiping right on everyone to get the most matches possible and then just begin talking to the ones they only indeed find attractive. To combat this Tinder has now limited the amount of swipes you can make and introduced Tinder Plus, a subscription service that gives you back the capability for unlimited swipes and also permits you to search through photos of people in other areas and take back a swipe if you accidentally swiped the wrong way.
Tinder Plus is a good thing, but some people will hate the fee structure. If you’re under twenty eight Tinder Plus is £3.99 a month–but over 28? The service then costs you £14.99 a month.
Happn
Cost of premium service: Coins range from £1.49 for ten to £23.49 for 300
Happn has a better mode of matching people than Tinder. The idea behind Happn is that it shows you people with similar interests who you’ve “crossed paths” with in the real world. Happn uses your phone’s GPS location to search within a two hundred fifty meter radius of where you are and will demonstrate you other Happn users in the same area. It doesn’t showcase you profiles of anyone you haven’t crossed paths with.
Of the profiles it does demonstrate you, you can read more about the person, see extra pics, and, if you want, like them secretly. However, if you like them secretly they won’t know. You’re basically bookmarking them. If you want to contact them you need to send them a charm–and charms cost money. You can buy ten charms for £1.49 or up to three hundred charms for £23.49.
I love the idea of Happn. It’s nice eyeing people who work in your area or suspend out near a pub you frequent. The problem with Happn is the radius: two hundred fifty meters is too large. If you’re in an office building on a busy city block, that doesn’t indeed help you narrow down the person much. And if you’re zipping through London on the overground, Happn will pick up any people whose plane is within two hundred fifty meter of the train tracks–not indeed “crossing paths” eh?
If Happn would shrink its radius–say to fifty meters–it would be much more useful. At two hundred fifty meters, it’s not much better than other dating apps’ geolocation features.
OkCupid
Cost of premium service: £9.99 for one month up to £39.99 for twelve months
OkCupid is the grandaddy of dating apps. The service has existed in website form since 2004, before coming out with its app about five years ago. OkCupid is widely regarded as one of the best online dating platforms thanks to its breadth of users and its advanced algorithms that are generally considered the best in the industry.
When you create a profile in the app you’re asked to response twenty one questions, which OkCupid’s algorithms will then crunch to showcase you your best matches. Tap on a match to view their utter profile.
OkCupid doesn’t suggest the hip factor of Tinder or the focused location feature of Happn, but it does suggest a true social network feel, which lends itself to people spending more time looking at profiles than simply swiping or scrolling through them in microseconds.The app also permits you to truly specify the type of person you are looking for, so you are more likely to get accurate matches.
Winner
If Tinder is the Instagram of dating, and Happn is the Google+, then OkCupid is the Facebook of dating. Tinder is superb because so many people use it and it’s joy to flick through pics, but it’s mostly superficial eye candy. Happn is a very interesting concept, that is crippled by its own self-imposed limitations–and no one uses it.
But OkCupid is a mature, full-featured dating app that has an active user base of people serious about dating. These people put their money where their mouth (and photos) are. They are financially invested in using the service thanks to its relatively high monthly and yearly rates, which means they are more likely to put effort into it and not waste time by simply browsing their options–they’re more likely to actually contact you back.
There are other options out there as well like Match and Coffee Meets Bagel but Tinder, Happn and OK Cupid, for the most part, are the big three of mobile dating.
Coffee Meets Bagel is the newest addition to the space and is designed to be a big different and no way near as fast-paced as the aforementioned applications. How it works is ordinary: you create a profile and everyday at 12pm you’re sent a potential match, which you either pass or like on. To be fair, I found the app a little tedious and I never met up with anyone — but your practice might be different.
If you’re looking for a quick ego boost or (if you’re fortunate) a hookup, Tinder or Happn might be the way to go. But if you’re looking for a dating app with myriad features, a social network feel, and an invested user base, go for OkCupid.
Tinder vs
Tinder vs. Happn vs. OkCupid: What's The BEST Dating App?
The mobile age has brought us many innovations and switches, some fine, some questionable, and none more signficant than those which seems to signficantly alter elements of our culture.
One of those big switches is now the subject of many articles across the web – dating. Yes mobile apps and online dating have, like it or not, switched the way we date. For better or worse – it’s still open to debate, and the response may be a bit of both indeed.
It’s lighter than ever to “meet” people thanks to our mobiles nowadays. There’s a smorgasbord of dating apps out there suggesting an array of different people and dating practices – everything from true love to no strings hook-up, and unlike going up to someone in the real world, these dating apps also give us an added layer of protection from a bruised ego (or face).
You can like someone without them knowing unless you’ve liked them back. You can contact someone without, truthfully, putting much effort into it. And you can even fully falsify an entire identity to make you look more attractive or be more cool than you are without your interests being any the wiser (at least until you actually have to meet).
There are slew of other viable alternatives now as well, such as Coffee Meets Bagel and the AWESOME Bumble, which is very similar to Tinder, save for the fact that only ladies can instigate conversations. Bumble was set up by one of Tinder’s co-founders and is designed as a rebuttal to the often creepy and sinister world of Tinder.
By putting women in charge, weirdo dudes (because there’s slew on Tinder) are left pretty much powerless, which is always a good thing. Bumble is only available on iPhone at present. An Android app is in the works, evidently, but we’ve yet to see any developments in latest months.
But as is often the case online, not everything is as it may very first emerge –– there’s slew of spam artists and masculine/female catfish.
"More than four in ten people who use the dating app are already in a relationship. One in ten are going out with another person, whilst three in ten are supposedly so committed that they have stood up in front of their friends and taken vows,” reports The Daily Mail. “Even so, they have signed up to the dating app, which permits people to scan for other users nearby, and determine whether they like the look of them based on their photographs.”
Happn does things a little differently than both Tinder and OKCupid, however, and is all about proximity. And this treatment kind of makes sense too: you’re more likely to have something in common with somebody at a similar gig, pub or night venue than you are with a finish stranger you just happened across during a ten minute swipe-break at work.
More than a quarter-of-a-million of French users subscribed to the app within months of the app launch, and Ten,000 Londoners quickly followed, according to The Guardian.
Around 38% of Tinder’s users are aged inbetween sixteen and 24, according to research conducted by GlobalWebIndex, while 45% fall in the twenty five to thirty four bracket. Just 4% are over the age of 45.
Tinder is more popular in towns and cities compared to rural areas and has, globally, been downloaded more than 50million times since 2012.
Here’s A Bunch of Tinder Facts (via)
- There are 150,000 Tinder users in Ireland. [1]
- Studs swipe “like” on a woman’s profile on average 46% of the time. Women swipe “like” on a man’s profile on average only 14% of the time. [1]
- Tinder is the winner of the two thousand fourteen Editor’s Choice Top Pick – Innovative Award. [Two]
- Women will swipe right 74% of the time when showen a man with well groomed facial hair. These fellows also recieve 37% more matches than fellows without facial hair. [Three]
- Activity from users on Valentine’s Day surpassed any day since Tinder launched in 2012. [Four]
- On Valentine’s Day this year Tinder users who logged in experienced a 60% increase in matches. [Four]
- Tinder projects to have forty million active monthly users by April 2015. [Five]
- Tinder Plus is launching in the United States in March. [6]
- Tinder Plus is designed to help reduce spammers by limiting the number of swipes a non paying member can do everyday. [6]
- Tinder partnered with Telesign to help combat fraudulent accounts on the dating service. According to the CTO spam traffic is down by about 90%. [7]
- A Tinder account can now be connected with an Instagram account. If done so, other members can view the last thirty four pictures the Tinder member posted on Instagram. [8]
- Hilary Duff confirms she has a profile on Tinder and has been out on one date with another member. [9]
By some counts dating apps are the most popular downloads among the 20s crowd –– even more popular than games and messaging apps. When people think of dating apps, their very first thought is very likely of Tinder, specifically because the app very first found traction with college-aged kids. But there are other popular dating apps that are up and coming, such as Happn as well as attempted and true dating apps like OKCupid, and premium services like E-Harmony.
We take a look at all three to see which is best for your love life.
Tinder
Cost of premium service: Tinder Plus £3.99 or £14.99 a month
Ah, Tinder. We all know thee well. Despite the “hookup” reputation Tinder has there is no denying it’s a brilliantly ordinary app. Tinder works by demonstrating you pics of people in your area. Swipe left to reject them, swipe right to like them. If you like someone who likes you you’ll be notified of a match. You can then send them a in-app message to commence talking. When Tinder very first came out its photo stack swipe navigation was the most brilliant UI a dating app had ever seen (and now one much copied).
The good thing about Tinder is that it has a ton of users. The bad thing about Tinder is that it’s so superficial (only showcasing photos of a person by default) that many times people just attempt to game the system by swiping right on everyone to get the most matches possible and then just embark talking to the ones they only truly find attractive. To combat this Tinder has now limited the amount of swipes you can make and introduced Tinder Plus, a subscription service that gives you back the capability for unlimited swipes and also permits you to search through photos of people in other areas and take back a swipe if you accidentally swiped the wrong way.
Tinder Plus is a good thing, but some people will hate the fee structure. If you’re under twenty eight Tinder Plus is £3.99 a month–but over 28? The service then costs you £14.99 a month.
Happn
Cost of premium service: Coins range from £1.49 for ten to £23.49 for 300
Happn has a better mode of matching people than Tinder. The idea behind Happn is that it shows you people with similar interests who you’ve “crossed paths” with in the real world. Happn uses your phone’s GPS location to search within a two hundred fifty meter radius of where you are and will display you other Happn users in the same area. It doesn’t display you profiles of anyone you haven’t crossed paths with.
Of the profiles it does showcase you, you can read more about the person, see extra pics, and, if you want, like them secretly. However, if you like them secretly they won’t know. You’re basically bookmarking them. If you want to contact them you need to send them a charm–and charms cost money. You can buy ten charms for £1.49 or up to three hundred charms for £23.49.
I love the idea of Happn. It’s nice eyeing people who work in your area or drape out near a pub you frequent. The problem with Happn is the radius: two hundred fifty meters is too large. If you’re in an office building on a busy city block, that doesn’t truly help you narrow down the person much. And if you’re zipping through London on the overground, Happn will pick up any people whose plane is within two hundred fifty meter of the train tracks–not indeed “crossing paths” eh?
If Happn would shrink its radius–say to fifty meters–it would be much more useful. At two hundred fifty meters, it’s not much better than other dating apps’ geolocation features.
OkCupid
Cost of premium service: £9.99 for one month up to £39.99 for twelve months
OkCupid is the grandaddy of dating apps. The service has existed in website form since 2004, before coming out with its app about five years ago. OkCupid is widely regarded as one of the best online dating platforms thanks to its breadth of users and its advanced algorithms that are generally considered the best in the industry.
When you create a profile in the app you’re asked to response twenty one questions, which OkCupid’s algorithms will then crunch to showcase you your best matches. Tap on a match to view their utter profile.
OkCupid doesn’t suggest the hip factor of Tinder or the focused location feature of Happn, but it does suggest a true social network feel, which lends itself to people spending more time looking at profiles than simply swiping or scrolling through them in microseconds.The app also permits you to indeed specify the type of person you are looking for, so you are more likely to get accurate matches.
Winner
If Tinder is the Instagram of dating, and Happn is the Google+, then OkCupid is the Facebook of dating. Tinder is fine because so many people use it and it’s joy to flick through pics, but it’s mostly superficial eye candy. Happn is a very interesting concept, that is crippled by its own self-imposed limitations–and no one uses it.
But OkCupid is a mature, full-featured dating app that has an active user base of people serious about dating. These people put their money where their mouth (and photos) are. They are financially invested in using the service thanks to its relatively high monthly and yearly rates, which means they are more likely to put effort into it and not waste time by simply browsing their options–they’re more likely to actually contact you back.
There are other options out there as well like Match and Coffee Meets Bagel but Tinder, Happn and OK Cupid, for the most part, are the big three of mobile dating.
Coffee Meets Bagel is the newest addition to the space and is designed to be a big different and no way near as fast-paced as the aforementioned applications. How it works is ordinary: you create a profile and everyday at 12pm you’re sent a potential match, which you either pass or like on. To be fair, I found the app a little tedious and I never met up with anyone — but your practice might be different.
If you’re looking for a quick ego boost or (if you’re fortunate) a hookup, Tinder or Happn might be the way to go. But if you’re looking for a dating app with myriad features, a social network feel, and an invested user base, go for OkCupid.
Tinder vs
Tinder vs. Happn vs. OkCupid: What's The BEST Dating App?
The mobile age has brought us many innovations and switches, some superb, some questionable, and none more signficant than those which seems to signficantly alter elements of our culture.
One of those big switches is now the subject of many articles across the web – dating. Yes mobile apps and online dating have, like it or not, switched the way we date. For better or worse – it’s still open to debate, and the reaction may be a bit of both truly.
It’s lighter than ever to “meet” people thanks to our mobiles nowadays. There’s a smorgasbord of dating apps out there suggesting an array of different people and dating practices – everything from true love to no strings hook-up, and unlike going up to someone in the real world, these dating apps also give us an added layer of protection from a bruised ego (or face).
You can like someone without them knowing unless you’ve liked them back. You can contact someone without, truthfully, putting much effort into it. And you can even downright falsify an entire identity to make you look more attractive or be more cool than you are without your interests being any the wiser (at least until you actually have to meet).
There are slew of other viable alternatives now as well, such as Coffee Meets Bagel and the AWESOME Bumble, which is very similar to Tinder, save for the fact that only ladies can instigate conversations. Bumble was set up by one of Tinder’s co-founders and is designed as a rebuttal to the often creepy and sinister world of Tinder.
By putting women in charge, weirdo boys (because there’s slew on Tinder) are left pretty much powerless, which is always a good thing. Bumble is only available on iPhone at present. An Android app is in the works, evidently, but we’ve yet to see any developments in latest months.
But as is often the case online, not everything is as it may very first show up –– there’s slew of spam artists and masculine/female catfish.
"More than four in ten people who use the dating app are already in a relationship. One in ten are going out with another person, whilst three in ten are supposedly so committed that they have stood up in front of their friends and taken vows,” reports The Daily Mail. “Even so, they have signed up to the dating app, which permits people to scan for other users nearby, and determine whether they like the look of them based on their photographs.”
Happn does things a little differently than both Tinder and OKCupid, however, and is all about proximity. And this treatment kind of makes sense too: you’re more likely to have something in common with somebody at a similar gig, pub or night venue than you are with a finish stranger you just happened across during a ten minute swipe-break at work.
More than a quarter-of-a-million of French users subscribed to the app within months of the app launch, and Ten,000 Londoners quickly followed, according to The Guardian.
Around 38% of Tinder’s users are aged inbetween sixteen and 24, according to research conducted by GlobalWebIndex, while 45% fall in the twenty five to thirty four bracket. Just 4% are over the age of 45.
Tinder is more popular in towns and cities compared to rural areas and has, globally, been downloaded more than 50million times since 2012.
Here’s A Bunch of Tinder Facts (via)
- There are 150,000 Tinder users in Ireland. [1]
- Guys swipe “like” on a woman’s profile on average 46% of the time. Women swipe “like” on a man’s profile on average only 14% of the time. [1]
- Tinder is the winner of the two thousand fourteen Editor’s Choice Top Pick – Innovative Award. [Two]
- Women will swipe right 74% of the time when showen a man with well groomed facial hair. These boys also recieve 37% more matches than guys without facial hair. [Trio]
- Activity from users on Valentine’s Day surpassed any day since Tinder launched in 2012. [Four]
- On Valentine’s Day this year Tinder users who logged in experienced a 60% increase in matches. [Four]
- Tinder projects to have forty million active monthly users by April 2015. [Five]
- Tinder Plus is launching in the United States in March. [6]
- Tinder Plus is designed to help reduce spammers by limiting the number of swipes a non paying member can do everyday. [6]
- Tinder partnered with Telesign to help combat fraudulent accounts on the dating service. According to the CTO spam traffic is down by about 90%. [7]
- A Tinder account can now be connected with an Instagram account. If done so, other members can view the last thirty four pictures the Tinder member posted on Instagram. [8]
- Hilary Duff confirms she has a profile on Tinder and has been out on one date with another member. [9]
By some counts dating apps are the most popular downloads among the 20s crowd –– even more popular than games and messaging apps. When people think of dating apps, their very first thought is very likely of Tinder, specifically because the app very first found traction with college-aged kids. But there are other popular dating apps that are up and coming, such as Happn as well as attempted and true dating apps like OKCupid, and premium services like E-Harmony.
We take a look at all three to see which is best for your love life.
Tinder
Cost of premium service: Tinder Plus £3.99 or £14.99 a month
Ah, Tinder. We all know thee well. Despite the “hookup” reputation Tinder has there is no denying it’s a brilliantly elementary app. Tinder works by displaying you pics of people in your area. Swipe left to reject them, swipe right to like them. If you like someone who likes you you’ll be notified of a match. You can then send them a in-app message to commence talking. When Tinder very first came out its photo stack swipe navigation was the most brilliant UI a dating app had ever seen (and now one much copied).
The good thing about Tinder is that it has a ton of users. The bad thing about Tinder is that it’s so superficial (only demonstrating photos of a person by default) that many times people just attempt to game the system by swiping right on everyone to get the most matches possible and then just embark talking to the ones they only indeed find attractive. To combat this Tinder has now limited the amount of swipes you can make and introduced Tinder Plus, a subscription service that gives you back the capability for unlimited swipes and also permits you to search through photos of people in other areas and take back a swipe if you accidentally swiped the wrong way.
Tinder Plus is a good thing, but some people will hate the fee structure. If you’re under twenty eight Tinder Plus is £3.99 a month–but over 28? The service then costs you £14.99 a month.
Happn
Cost of premium service: Coins range from £1.49 for ten to £23.49 for 300
Happn has a better mode of matching people than Tinder. The idea behind Happn is that it shows you people with similar interests who you’ve “crossed paths” with in the real world. Happn uses your phone’s GPS location to search within a two hundred fifty meter radius of where you are and will demonstrate you other Happn users in the same area. It doesn’t demonstrate you profiles of anyone you haven’t crossed paths with.
Of the profiles it does showcase you, you can read more about the person, see extra pics, and, if you want, like them secretly. However, if you like them secretly they won’t know. You’re basically bookmarking them. If you want to contact them you need to send them a charm–and charms cost money. You can buy ten charms for £1.49 or up to three hundred charms for £23.49.
I love the idea of Happn. It’s nice witnessing people who work in your area or string up out near a pub you frequent. The problem with Happn is the radius: two hundred fifty meters is too large. If you’re in an office building on a busy city block, that doesn’t truly help you narrow down the person much. And if you’re zipping through London on the overground, Happn will pick up any people whose plane is within two hundred fifty meter of the train tracks–not indeed “crossing paths” eh?
If Happn would shrink its radius–say to fifty meters–it would be much more useful. At two hundred fifty meters, it’s not much better than other dating apps’ geolocation features.
OkCupid
Cost of premium service: £9.99 for one month up to £39.99 for twelve months
OkCupid is the grandaddy of dating apps. The service has existed in website form since 2004, before coming out with its app about five years ago. OkCupid is widely regarded as one of the best online dating platforms thanks to its breadth of users and its advanced algorithms that are generally considered the best in the industry.
When you create a profile in the app you’re asked to reaction twenty one questions, which OkCupid’s algorithms will then crunch to showcase you your best matches. Tap on a match to view their utter profile.
OkCupid doesn’t suggest the hip factor of Tinder or the focused location feature of Happn, but it does suggest a true social network feel, which lends itself to people spending more time looking at profiles than simply swiping or scrolling through them in microseconds.The app also permits you to truly specify the type of person you are looking for, so you are more likely to get accurate matches.
Winner
If Tinder is the Instagram of dating, and Happn is the Google+, then OkCupid is the Facebook of dating. Tinder is superb because so many people use it and it’s joy to flick through pics, but it’s mostly superficial eye candy. Happn is a very interesting concept, that is crippled by its own self-imposed limitations–and no one uses it.
But OkCupid is a mature, full-featured dating app that has an active user base of people serious about dating. These people put their money where their mouth (and photos) are. They are financially invested in using the service thanks to its relatively high monthly and yearly rates, which means they are more likely to put effort into it and not waste time by simply browsing their options–they’re more likely to actually contact you back.
There are other options out there as well like Match and Coffee Meets Bagel but Tinder, Happn and OK Cupid, for the most part, are the big three of mobile dating.
Coffee Meets Bagel is the newest addition to the space and is designed to be a big different and no way near as fast-paced as the aforementioned applications. How it works is elementary: you create a profile and everyday at 12pm you’re sent a potential match, which you either pass or like on. To be fair, I found the app a little tedious and I never met up with anyone — but your practice might be different.
If you’re looking for a quick ego boost or (if you’re fortunate) a hookup, Tinder or Happn might be the way to go. But if you’re looking for a dating app with myriad features, a social network feel, and an invested user base, go for OkCupid.
Tinder vs
Tinder vs. Happn vs. OkCupid: What's The BEST Dating App?
The mobile age has brought us many innovations and switches, some good, some questionable, and none more signficant than those which seems to signficantly alter elements of our culture.
One of those big switches is now the subject of many articles across the web – dating. Yes mobile apps and online dating have, like it or not, switched the way we date. For better or worse – it’s still open to debate, and the reaction may be a bit of both truly.
It’s lighter than ever to “meet” people thanks to our mobiles nowadays. There’s a smorgasbord of dating apps out there suggesting an array of different people and dating practices – everything from true love to no strings lovemaking, and unlike going up to someone in the real world, these dating apps also give us an added layer of protection from a bruised ego (or face).
You can like someone without them knowing unless you’ve liked them back. You can contact someone without, truthfully, putting much effort into it. And you can even downright falsify an entire identity to make you look more attractive or be more cool than you are without your interests being any the wiser (at least until you actually have to meet).
There are slew of other viable alternatives now as well, such as Coffee Meets Bagel and the AWESOME Bumble, which is very similar to Tinder, save for the fact that only ladies can instigate conversations. Bumble was set up by one of Tinder’s co-founders and is designed as a rebuttal to the often creepy and sinister world of Tinder.
By putting women in charge, weirdo studs (because there’s slew on Tinder) are left pretty much powerless, which is always a good thing. Bumble is only available on iPhone at present. An Android app is in the works, evidently, but we’ve yet to see any developments in latest months.
But as is often the case online, not everything is as it may very first emerge –– there’s slew of spam artists and masculine/female catfish.
"More than four in ten people who use the dating app are already in a relationship. One in ten are going out with another person, whilst three in ten are supposedly so committed that they have stood up in front of their friends and taken vows,” reports The Daily Mail. “Even so, they have signed up to the dating app, which permits people to scan for other users nearby, and determine whether they like the look of them based on their photographs.”
Happn does things a little differently than both Tinder and OKCupid, however, and is all about proximity. And this treatment kind of makes sense too: you’re more likely to have something in common with somebody at a similar gig, pub or night venue than you are with a accomplish stranger you just happened across during a ten minute swipe-break at work.
More than a quarter-of-a-million of French users subscribed to the app within months of the app launch, and Ten,000 Londoners quickly followed, according to The Guardian.
Around 38% of Tinder’s users are aged inbetween sixteen and 24, according to research conducted by GlobalWebIndex, while 45% fall in the twenty five to thirty four bracket. Just 4% are over the age of 45.
Tinder is more popular in towns and cities compared to rural areas and has, globally, been downloaded more than 50million times since 2012.
Here’s A Bunch of Tinder Facts (via)
- There are 150,000 Tinder users in Ireland. [1]
- Studs swipe “like” on a woman’s profile on average 46% of the time. Women swipe “like” on a man’s profile on average only 14% of the time. [1]
- Tinder is the winner of the two thousand fourteen Editor’s Choice Top Pick – Innovative Award. [Two]
- Women will swipe right 74% of the time when showen a man with well groomed facial hair. These dudes also recieve 37% more matches than dudes without facial hair. [Trio]
- Activity from users on Valentine’s Day surpassed any day since Tinder launched in 2012. [Four]
- On Valentine’s Day this year Tinder users who logged in experienced a 60% increase in matches. [Four]
- Tinder projects to have forty million active monthly users by April 2015. [Five]
- Tinder Plus is launching in the United States in March. [6]
- Tinder Plus is designed to help reduce spammers by limiting the number of swipes a non paying member can do everyday. [6]
- Tinder partnered with Telesign to help combat fraudulent accounts on the dating service. According to the CTO spam traffic is down by about 90%. [7]
- A Tinder account can now be connected with an Instagram account. If done so, other members can view the last thirty four pictures the Tinder member posted on Instagram. [8]
- Hilary Duff confirms she has a profile on Tinder and has been out on one date with another member. [9]
By some counts dating apps are the most popular downloads among the 20s crowd –– even more popular than games and messaging apps. When people think of dating apps, their very first thought is most likely of Tinder, specifically because the app very first found traction with college-aged kids. But there are other popular dating apps that are up and coming, such as Happn as well as attempted and true dating apps like OKCupid, and premium services like E-Harmony.
We take a look at all three to see which is best for your love life.
Tinder
Cost of premium service: Tinder Plus £3.99 or £14.99 a month
Ah, Tinder. We all know thee well. Despite the “hookup” reputation Tinder has there is no denying it’s a brilliantly ordinary app. Tinder works by displaying you pics of people in your area. Swipe left to reject them, swipe right to like them. If you like someone who likes you you’ll be notified of a match. You can then send them a in-app message to commence talking. When Tinder very first came out its photo stack swipe navigation was the most brilliant UI a dating app had ever seen (and now one much copied).
The good thing about Tinder is that it has a ton of users. The bad thing about Tinder is that it’s so superficial (only showcasing photos of a person by default) that many times people just attempt to game the system by swiping right on everyone to get the most matches possible and then just embark talking to the ones they only indeed find attractive. To combat this Tinder has now limited the amount of swipes you can make and introduced Tinder Plus, a subscription service that gives you back the capability for unlimited swipes and also permits you to search through photos of people in other areas and take back a swipe if you accidentally swiped the wrong way.
Tinder Plus is a good thing, but some people will hate the fee structure. If you’re under twenty eight Tinder Plus is £3.99 a month–but over 28? The service then costs you £14.99 a month.
Happn
Cost of premium service: Coins range from £1.49 for ten to £23.49 for 300
Happn has a better mode of matching people than Tinder. The idea behind Happn is that it shows you people with similar interests who you’ve “crossed paths” with in the real world. Happn uses your phone’s GPS location to search within a two hundred fifty meter radius of where you are and will demonstrate you other Happn users in the same area. It doesn’t showcase you profiles of anyone you haven’t crossed paths with.
Of the profiles it does display you, you can read more about the person, see extra pics, and, if you want, like them secretly. However, if you like them secretly they won’t know. You’re basically bookmarking them. If you want to contact them you need to send them a charm–and charms cost money. You can buy ten charms for £1.49 or up to three hundred charms for £23.49.
I love the idea of Happn. It’s nice observing people who work in your area or string up out near a pub you frequent. The problem with Happn is the radius: two hundred fifty meters is too large. If you’re in an office building on a busy city block, that doesn’t truly help you narrow down the person much. And if you’re zipping through London on the overground, Happn will pick up any people whose vapid is within two hundred fifty meter of the train tracks–not indeed “crossing paths” eh?
If Happn would shrink its radius–say to fifty meters–it would be much more useful. At two hundred fifty meters, it’s not much better than other dating apps’ geolocation features.
OkCupid
Cost of premium service: £9.99 for one month up to £39.99 for twelve months
OkCupid is the grandaddy of dating apps. The service has existed in website form since 2004, before coming out with its app about five years ago. OkCupid is widely regarded as one of the best online dating platforms thanks to its breadth of users and its advanced algorithms that are generally considered the best in the industry.
When you create a profile in the app you’re asked to reaction twenty one questions, which OkCupid’s algorithms will then crunch to display you your best matches. Tap on a match to view their total profile.
OkCupid doesn’t suggest the hip factor of Tinder or the focused location feature of Happn, but it does suggest a true social network feel, which lends itself to people spending more time looking at profiles than simply swiping or scrolling through them in microseconds.The app also permits you to indeed specify the type of person you are looking for, so you are more likely to get accurate matches.
Winner
If Tinder is the Instagram of dating, and Happn is the Google+, then OkCupid is the Facebook of dating. Tinder is fine because so many people use it and it’s joy to flick through pics, but it’s mostly superficial eye candy. Happn is a very interesting concept, that is crippled by its own self-imposed limitations–and no one uses it.
But OkCupid is a mature, full-featured dating app that has an active user base of people serious about dating. These people put their money where their mouth (and pics) are. They are financially invested in using the service thanks to its relatively high monthly and yearly rates, which means they are more likely to put effort into it and not waste time by simply browsing their options–they’re more likely to actually contact you back.
There are other options out there as well like Match and Coffee Meets Bagel but Tinder, Happn and OK Cupid, for the most part, are the big three of mobile dating.
Coffee Meets Bagel is the newest addition to the space and is designed to be a big different and no way near as fast-paced as the aforementioned applications. How it works is elementary: you create a profile and everyday at 12pm you’re sent a potential match, which you either pass or like on. To be fair, I found the app a little tedious and I never met up with anyone — but your practice might be different.
If you’re looking for a quick ego boost or (if you’re fortunate) a hookup, Tinder or Happn might be the way to go. But if you’re looking for a dating app with myriad features, a social network feel, and an invested user base, go for OkCupid.