“There’s too many ads — Every three profiles there’s ads and $10 a week for a subscription is too expensive. No one wants to pay $50 a month for a dating app.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,448 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.2 ★1,753,430 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
459 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Tinder is the place to meet someone new and see where a spark might lead. With millions of people nearby and around the world, Tinder makes dating fun and helps you find someone who matches your vibe, interests, and intentions.
HOW IT WORKS Meeting new people on Tinder feels easy and natural. Every match is a chance to meet someone interesting and enjoy the kind of dating experience that feels fun, relaxed, and right for you. Conversations unfold at your pace and help you figure out who you genuinely connect with.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 17.38.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 17.38.0, updated 2026-10-05.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 6
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (0.4% of 2448 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (0.3% of 2448 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.2% of 2448 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.2% of 2448 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Surprise charges: raised by 27 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 2448 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 34 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 2448 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Basic App with ridiculous prices — I have no clue how they justify $40 a month. Not sure how it is on the straight side but for the gays, people match and then don’t respond or chat. Just match collectors. Not to mention the scammers and…”
“NOPE📞 — Zero chance I’m giving an app my phone number. People need to stop accepting this as normal. It is not secure - it’s insecure and a privacy nightmare. This practice needs to be erased from existence.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 17.38.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.