Best dating apps in Australia

Which apps have an Australian App Store listing

An iTunes lookup of the Australian App Store on November 5, 2026 returned listings for seventeen reviewed apps, among them Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Feeld, Grindr and Match. Smaller apps with an Australian listing include Zoosk, Fling, 3Fun, Hornet, Taimi and The League. The store check found no Australian listing for Coffee Meets Bagel, OurTime and Doublelist.

The check covers the iPhone App Store only. Google Play and web availability by country cannot be read this way, so a service absent above may still be sold in Australia. AdultFriendFinder, BeNaughty and Sniffies are browser-first and have no iPhone app to look up, which leaves their Australian status open; dating sites without an app download covers that group.

Best dating apps in Australia on local ranking lists

The first Google Australia results page for "best dating apps in australia" holds eight results, six of them ranking lists. Four of the lists sit on Australian domains and three are dated 2025 or 2026. Tinder is named in five, Bumble in four and Hinge in three. eHarmony is in two lists, and EliteSingles, OkCupid, Facebook Dating and happn in one each.

The hookup wording, "best hookup apps in australia", returns three lists, two of them on Australian domains. Hinge is named in all three, Tinder, Bumble and eHarmony in two each, and OkCupid in one. Hinge is therefore the only name on every hookup list, against half of the dating lists. For the country-free rankings, see the best dating apps overall and our hookup app ranking; the city hub is dating apps by city.

Age rules for dating apps in Australia

The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 requires age-restricted social media platforms to take reasonable steps to keep people under 16 from holding accounts. The obligation took effect on December 10, 2025 (eSafety media release). The sources read do not say whether dating apps count as age-restricted social media; eSafety's self-assessment tool decides service by service. Hinge told UK and Australian users in February 2026 to complete facial age estimation and cited this Act, which makes it the one app on record in these sources that ties a check to it. The UK side of that notice is on the UK page.

A second set of rules is closer to dating. eSafety's Phase 2 industry codes on age-restricted material take effect from March 9, 2026, and a Baker McKenzie summary says the individual codes cover the social media, online dating and gaming industries. The dating-specific requirements were not read, so what the codes ask of a dating app is not confirmed here. eSafety's guide to Feeld says Feeld uses a video-selfie age check for Australia; only a search excerpt of that page was read.

The voluntary online dating code

The industry finalised a voluntary Online Dating Industry Code and submitted it to the Australian Government by June 30, 2024. It commenced on October 1, 2024 with an initial transition period. A Norton Rose Fulbright summary from August 2024 names the working group that led it: Match, Bumble, eharmony, Grindr and three other operators.

That summary lists working-group members, not signatories, so which apps follow the code is not confirmed. The government's own wording and any later enforcement step are not confirmed either.

Ashley Madison and the Privacy Act

A report dated August 22, 2016 on the joint investigation into Ashley Madison's operator records two outcomes. Australia's Information Commissioner accepted an enforceable undertaking under section 33E of the Privacy Act, while Canada's regulator entered a compliance agreement. The report is from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada; the Australian regulator's own page was not opened.

Dating app prices on the Australian App Store

Every price here is an iPhone App Store row for Australia, in AUD, and each app appears at its cheapest listed row. Only some listings state a billing period.

The lowest listed rows on the Australian App Store are SCRUFF Browsing Pro at AUD 5.99, Badoo Premium at AUD 8.99 and Bumble Boost at AUD 9.99, none with a period stated. At the other end of the Australian App Store, eHarmony Basic is AUD 89.99, Down VIP AUD 30.99 and Ashley Madison Preferred AUD 29.99, again with no period.

Five rows do state a period. Hud Premium is AUD 14.99 for 1 week on the Australian App Store, Pure Membership is AUD 15.99 for 1 week and the Plenty of Fish subscription AUD 19.99 for 1 week. Grindr's row is AUD 17.49 for 1 month on the Australian App Store and Feeld's Majestic Membership AUD 35.99 for 30 days. A single week of Plenty of Fish is therefore listed above a month of Grindr. Tinder Plus is AUD 14.99 on the Australian App Store, the same amount as the Hud Premium weekly row, but its listing states no period, so the two cannot be set side by side; the same goes for Match and OkCupid Premium, both AUD 12.99 with no period. Google Play and web prices are not covered. More price pages sit under price pages by app.

Local apps on the Australian App Store

None of the ten apps in the Australian local list is marked local; all ten are marked international. Flava: Casual Dating & Chat has the most ratings in the list at 20,377, followed by Instinct: Casual Dating App with 12,196 and Casual Dating & Flirt - Kasual with 1,608. The other seven show no rating count. Four listings carry Spanish or Portuguese titles, and the title of Muzz reads "Where Muslims Marry".

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