This analysis describes version 17.38.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-17 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 17.38.2, updated 2026-10-12.

Preview

Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

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.…

From the developer’s store description.

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The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 7 shown, not confirmed

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

Sources: The store listing
Agreement: A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured: From the Google Play listing

Definition

The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 7

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

A plan is pre-picked as 'recommended'

One source only

Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best Value"

Sources: The app's own on-screen text
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.

Package artefact

sha256:723601c2ab55f92086d53a0ae4566d7b874562274d85c29d8b77055cfb3bca94

Tracking and data collection concerns

One source only

Data & privacy concerns: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.1% of 3527 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

Open evidence

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 25 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 3527 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Hard to cancel

One source only

Hard to cancel: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (0.2% of 3527 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.

Open evidence

Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording

One source only

Constant upsell pressure: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.1% of 3527 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.

Open evidence

Reports of unexpected charges

One source only

Surprise charges: raised by 26 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 3527 reviews scanned)

Sources: User reviews
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

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.

Open evidence

Countdown-timer purchase pressure

One source only

Deadline pressure in the app's own copy: "Offer ends in {timeLeft}"

Sources: The app's own on-screen text
Agreement: Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured: Found in the Android app’s package

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app's own purchase copy attaches a deadline to buying — a countdown, 'offer ends in', 'limited time' — or ships a countdown view on a purchase-screen layout.

Package artefact

sha256:723601c2ab55f92086d53a0ae4566d7b874562274d85c29d8b77055cfb3bca94

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

3,527 reviews read · 5 review-based observations

3,527 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Tracking and data collection concerns

Shown, not confirmed

No sampled quote is attached to this observation.

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

Pathetic Dating App that hides simple features such as "who likes you" behind a paywall. Garbage App, do not waste your time.
1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-15

Hard to cancel

Shown, not confirmed

I met someone and it won't let me cancel my subscription
1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-15

Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording

Shown, not confirmed

They've told me I have some likes, but won't put those people in my feed to like them back. What they do is dangle those likes in front of you and then limit your like count and then constantly ask you to buy premium. I'm not buying…
2★ · Google Play · 2026-10-15

Tinder feels more like a money grab than a dating app now. I paid $17.99 for Plus, but I'm constantly being pushed to upgrade to Gold or pay extra for features. I even got redirected to a Gold subscription offer when trying to fill in my…
1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-15

Reports of unexpected charges

Shown, not confirmed

bans you for no reason ! terrible customer service. no refund.
1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-14

Tinder is still charging my account almost weekly now AFTER I cancel the subscription in August! I've had to turn off my cards and try to dispute the payment. Do NOT get this application
1★ · Google Play · 2026-10-15

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

8 measured · 0 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

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

Under 65% five-star

Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

Android package 17.38.2, scanned 17 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.

Sensitive permissions

6 or more requested

Counted against a fixed list of eighteen sensitive Android permissions: sixteen runtime permissions, among them location, camera, microphone, contacts and SMS, and two the user must switch on in system settings, drawing over other apps and usage access. Requesting one is not itself a finding.

Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package

1–2 found

Advertising SDKs in the scanned package

1–2 found

Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 17 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 17.38.2 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-17 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 17.38.2, updated 2026-10-12.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 17.38.2 · 2026-10-12

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 17.37.3 · 2026-10-05

No release notes were provided for this version.

Version 17.36.3 · 2026-09-28

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status: Automated analysis
App identifier: tinder-dating-app-google-com-tinder
Assessment date: 17 Oct 2026
Sources used: 6 independent signals: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read: 3,527
Package examined: Android · 17.38.2 · scanned 17 Oct 2026
Measurement vocabulary: 1.4
Human inspection: Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-17 from 3,527 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-17 Version analyzed: 17.38.26 independent signals3,527 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3

Signals run: user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating: 3.93 ★ · 9,250,445 ratings
Version: 17.38.2
Updated: 12 Oct 2026
Price: Free · In-app purchases
Age rating: 17+
Size: Not supplied

Open in Google Play

Developer: Tinder LLC
Category: Social
Listing price: Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

What this app sells

Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices, so this list covers the other store only.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.

Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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