Tinder vs Plenty of Fish: what each free account gets

What a free account does on each app

Tinder's App Store listing puts "Send Likes, match, and chat at your own pace" under the free tier. Subscriptions add unlimited Likes, weekly Super Likes, compliments before a match, unlimited Rewinds and monthly Boosts. The listings do not state a free daily Like limit, so how far the free tier goes is open. The Tinder review has the rest.

Plenty of Fish is free to download, and its help center spells out the free side: members can filter searches, Like people in Meet Me, and see and message Mutual Matches. Paid tiers add unlimited Likes, no ads and more, and the terms say the services carry advertising. On documented detail, the Plenty of Fish free tier is the better described of the two. More is in the Plenty of Fish review.

Swiping on Tinder, Meet Me on Plenty of Fish

Tinder runs on swipe-style Likes and mutual matching: "You can only match and chat when both people are interested." Double Date lets you bring a friend, Events run in selected cities, and members set intentions on the profile. Google Play names three goals: a date, a serious relationship or new friends.

Meet Me on Plenty of Fish works the same way: "Swipe right if you're into someone. If they swipe right on you too, it's a match!" Search filters, Likes and recommendations also drive discovery, and Interested in Me shows who liked or viewed you. Matched members get "unlimited online messaging with each other". First Contact sends one message a day before matching, and the Prestige tier lists unlimited first contacts; which plan grants the daily one is not stated. Safe Message Filters screen messages, and a setting restricts the first-message count so members do not get one- and two-word intros.

The listings of both apps leave video chat unmentioned. Plenty of Fish's safety page names an in-app POF call without saying whether it is voice or video.

Tinder vs Plenty of Fish prices in the US and UK

On the US App Store, the lowest listed Tinder Plus price is USD 9.99 and the lowest listed Tinder Gold price is USD 13.99, with Gold rows up to USD 24.99. The UK App Store lists Tinder Plus at GBP 3.99 and Tinder Gold from GBP 7.49. No Tinder row in either country states a period, and Tinder Platinum has no US or UK row.

Plenty of Fish is the one that states periods. Its US App Store rows include a subscription with no tier named at USD 29.99 for 1 month and USD 19.99 for 1 week, POF Premium at USD 29.99 with no period, and Upgrade rows at USD 19.99 and USD 38.99. The UK App Store shows the same pattern: GBP 29.99 for 1 month and GBP 19.99 for 1 week, plus Upgrade rows at GBP 19.99, GBP 29.99 and GBP 39.99.

Prices as listed in the store on November 5, 2026. They change by country, platform, account and promotion.

Prices as listed in the store on November 5, 2026. They change by country, platform, account and promotion.

The lowest listed Plenty of Fish price is above the lowest listed Tinder price in both countries: USD 19.99 against USD 9.99 on the US App Store, GBP 19.99 against GBP 3.99 on the UK App Store. Without a Tinder period, the gap says nothing about cost per week or per month.

Cancelling depends on where you subscribed. Tinder's terms say Apple ID subscriptions are cancelled through Apple, Google Play ones in the Google Play app settings, and card payments through the Account section of the website or app, with access lasting to the end of the paid period. Plenty of Fish lists a cancel path for the App Store, Google Play and its website, and says subscriptions are final and non-refundable except where law or special terms apply. On both apps, deleting the account does not cancel a store subscription. These are iPhone prices only: Google Play and web prices are not covered for either app. Full lists are on What Tinder costs and Plenty of Fish pricing, and the steps are in how to cancel a dating app subscription.

Filters, incognito and travel features

Plenty of Fish has the documented free filters: gender, location, age, distance, religion and more, with separate age and distance filters in Meet Me. Extended profile content, such as whether someone has or wants children and lifestyle habits, is a POF Plus perk. Its Incognito feature shows your profile only to people you like or message and is listed for Plus, Premium and Prestige, per an archived help article dated January 3, 2026. Travel features are not mentioned in the pages checked.

Tinder's Google Play listing names Incognito Mode ("Only be seen by people you've already Liked") and Passport Mode ("Match local, or go global") without saying which plan includes either. Advanced filters are not mentioned in its listings. The wider field is in apps with incognito mode, apps with advanced filters and travel mode apps.

Verification, reporting and what the terms say

Tinder names Photo Verification on Google Play, and the App Store says "We include multiple ways to verify profiles". Whether verification is optional or required is not stated. Its listed tools include Share My Date, blurring of chat messages that look inappropriate, unmatching and message flagging, and a Report User link, with reports treated as confidential. Violations bring warnings first, then bans for severe or repeated ones. The terms and guidelines name reporting and unmatching and do not name blocking.

Selfie Verification on Plenty of Fish matches a video selfie to the main profile photo and adds a badge; changing the main photo means verifying again. It is described as optional and still rolling out, and the terms say POF does not run criminal background or identity checks on users. Share My Date sends date details to friends or family, and its links expire 7 days after the date. Block and report sit on profiles and in messages, and the safety page has a sexual health and consent section and crisis and support resources. Neither app says how well its tools work. See how apps verify profiles, our safety guide and how to spot a fake profile.

Data, location and ads

Tinder's privacy policy says it can collect latitude and longitude from your device if you give permission, and that features relying on precise geolocation are unavailable if you decline. It says Tinder gives certain information to third parties, including advertising partners, and describes an opt-out toggle for the sale or sharing of personal information and for targeted advertising. Those points come from a summarized copy of the Tinder privacy page checked on November 5, 2026, so check the wording there.

The Plenty of Fish privacy policy, applying from March 11, 2026, says it collects precise device location and, for Selfie Verification, face geometry data, each with permission. Sensitive details such as sexual orientation may be processed if members give them. Data is shared with service providers, advertising partners, Facebook tools and other Match Group companies. After account closure it is kept for a three-month safety window, and members can retrieve a copy of their data. Dating app privacy settings covers the wider picture.

Platforms, ages and store coverage

Tinder is on iPhone and Apple TV, on Android and on the web at tinder.com, which its terms count as part of the service. Plenty of Fish is on iPhone and iPad, on Android and at pof.com. The App Store check found Tinder in all 45 storefronts and Plenty of Fish in 36, with nine not found, among them the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and South Korea. That is a store check, not a list of where either service works: no official supported-country list was found for either app, and both sets of terms bar people located in countries under a US embargo.

Store ratings match: 18+ in the App Store and Mature 17+ in Google Play for both, and both terms set the minimum age at 18. Tinder LLC is the operator, though the contracting entity depends on where the member lives. Plenty of Fish's terms name MTCH Technology Services Limited for users in the EU, EEA, UK or Switzerland and Plentyoffish Media ULC for everyone else, and the store listings place it in Match Group.

Which app fits which reader

• Best for searching by criteria: Plenty of Fish, which lists free filters for gender, location, age, distance and religion.
• Best for a large pool and mixed goals: Tinder, with 500M+ Google Play downloads, three named goals and a listing in every storefront checked.
• Best for a stated relationship aim: Plenty of Fish, whose Google Play text names relationships as its aim more than once. Tinder lists a serious relationship as one of its three goals.

Other options are in Apps like Tinder and Plenty of Fish alternatives. Tinder against other names is in Tinder vs Bumble and Tinder vs OkCupid, Plenty of Fish against another in Plenty of Fish vs OkCupid, and all comparisons lists more pairs.