Tinder remains the most-downloaded dating app in 45 out of 50 U.S. states, driving more than half of its parent company’s in-app revenue in 2025, according to a new data analysis from Start.io.
Tinder’s next closest competitor, Bumble, lost relative market share over the past year, amid a CEO change and declining company’s stock value, according to Start.io’s analysis.
This year, Tinder and Bumble both saw fresh competition in the U.S. from the Czech company FlintCast, makers of the dating apps Evermatch, SweetMeet, Maybe You, and iHappy.
For this analysis, Start.io used its privacy-compliant, anonymized first-party audience segmentation data to study more than 400,000 active mobile devices in the United States that have one or more dating apps installed. This data includes mobile app installation rates, but does not include whether someone is actively using the app.
Another banner year for Tinder
Match Group owns more than 60 dating websites and apps, but one app stands above them all: Tinder. The dating app that popularized the phrase “swipe right” generated $1.94 billion in revenue for Match Group in 2024—a little more than half of the company’s total revenue.
And while Tinder has tens of millions of users, it makes money from the roughly 9.7 million people who each pay the company an average of $16.68 per month to use the app, according to Match Group’s FY 2024 annual report.
In 2025—13 years after the app initially launched—Tinder is the most-installed dating app in 45 U.S. states, according to data from Start.io. Tinder is #2 in Arkansas and Minnesota, and #3 in Louisiana, Rhode Island, and South Dakota.
Match Group’s other apps
Match Group, which employs around 2,500 people and is valued at around $8 billion, runs a number of smaller dating sites and apps—none of which come close to Tinder’s audience in size.
In Start.io’s analysis of the top 10 most-downloaded dating apps in each U.S. state, seven Match Group-owned apps made the cut:
- Tinder: Top 10 in 50 states
- Plenty of Fish: Top 10 in 40 states
- Hinge: Top 10 in 35 states
- OkCupid: Top 10 in 5 states
- BLK: Top 10 in 3 states
- Chispa: Top 10 in 3 states
- Match: Top 10 in 2 states
Collectively, Match Group’s non-Tinder properties generated $1.47 billion in in-app revenue in 2024.
Bumble stumbled in 2024
2024 was a challenging year for dating giant Bumble, owner of mobile apps Bumble, Bumble for Friends, Badoo, and Geneva. The company hired a new CEO in early 2024, who resigned in early 2025.
Bumble cut about 30 percent of its employees in 2024, and lost its chief financial officer, chief business officer, and chief technology officer in 2025, according to its latest annual report. The company is shutting down Fruitz, a Gen Z-focused dating app it acquired in 2022, and Official, an app it acquired in 2023.
Bumble’s stock reached an all-time low in 2025, falling from around $75 per share at its 2021 IPO to less than $5 per share in March 2025. Wall Street currently values the company around $530 million.
For years, Bumble was unique among dating apps because it didn’t allow men to send the opening message to women in the app’s heterosexual dating section. This solved a persistent problem in heterosexual dating apps, of men flooding women’s dating inboxes with generic, occasionally hostile, opening messages. In 2024, Bumble changed that core feature, inviting men to respond to an Opening Move from women they matched with.
Bumble ranks among the top 10 most-downloaded dating apps in every state in the U.S., and the #2 most-downloaded dating app in 24 out of 50 states (in most cases, behind #1 Tinder), according to Start.io’s analysis. The company’s other top dating app, Badoo, is in the top 10 dating apps in 47 out of 50 states.
Grindr remains steady
Grindr, which specializes in gay, bi, trans, and queer dating, stayed relatively constant between 2024 and 2025, appearing on the top 10 most-downloaded dating app list in 45 out of 50 U.S. states, according to Start.io data.
Grindr is the #3 most-downloaded dating app in two states—Arkansas and New Mexico, according to Start.io data.
Grindr ended 2024 with an average of 14.2 million monthly active users, a nearly 7 percent increase in MAUs from 2023, according to the company’s latest annual report. Grindr’s stock price more than doubled in 2024, starting the year at around $8.30 per share, and ending the year at roughly $18 per share. Wall Street currently values Grindr at around $3 billion.
New upstarts trying to squeeze into the dating space
Czech Republic-based FlintCast had a big year for growth in the U.S., gaining a foothold with their apps SweetMeet, iHappy, Maybe You, and Evermatch.
These four apps failed to crack the list of top 10 most-downloaded dating apps in Start.io’s 2024 analysis. Not so today:
- SweetMeet: Top 10 in 50 states
- iHappy: Top 10 in 46 states
- Maybe You: Top 10 in 37 states
- Evermatch: Top 10 in 13 states
Other notable privately owned dating apps in 2025 include:
- Boo: Top 10 in 30 states
- Happn: Top 10 in 10 states
- Hily: Top 10 in 10 states
