Best dating apps in Ireland

Which apps have an Irish App Store listing

An iTunes lookup of the Irish App Store on November 5, 2026 returned listings for sixteen reviewed apps, among them Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Feeld and Grindr. Smaller apps with an Irish listing include Taimi, Hornet, 3Fun and The League. The store check found no Irish listing for Coffee Meets Bagel, Match, Zoosk, Fling, 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 Ireland. AdultFriendFinder, BeNaughty and Sniffies are browser-first and have no iPhone app to look up, which leaves their Irish status open; web versions of dating apps covers that group.

Best dating apps in Ireland on local ranking lists

The first Google Ireland results page for "best dating apps in ireland" holds eight results, four of them ranking lists. Two lists sit on Irish domains, and one carries a 2025 or 2026 date. Hinge is named in three of the four. Badoo, Tinder, Bumble and OkCupid are in two each, and no app is on all four.

The hookup wording, "best hookup apps in ireland", names Tinder five times, Badoo and Hinge four times each, Bumble three, Plenty of Fish and happn two each, and OkCupid and Facebook Dating once. The five apps from the dating lists all recur there, though Badoo moves from two mentions to four. General rankings without a country filter are on the best dating apps overall and our hookup app ranking; the city hub is dating apps by city.

Data protection case over Tinder

Ireland's Data Protection Commission told Match Group on July 9, 2026 that it intended to fine it between 8 million and 11 million euros over Tinder's handling of access and deletion requests and its data retention (Global Dating Insights). The inquiry, into MTCH Technology Services, was opened in 2020. An article dated August 13, 2026 says no final decision had been issued at that point.

Match Group's 10-Q filing for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 carries a subsequent-event entry dated October 13, 2026 for the case with the Irish regulator. The copy read stops before the note text, so the final amount is not confirmed. The Commission's press-release list, looked at on November 5, 2026, showed no Tinder release.

Online Safety Code and age assurance

From July 2025 the Online Safety Code of Ireland's media regulator (CnaM) requires video-sharing platform services based in Ireland to use age assurance to keep children from adult-only video content, including pornography. Self-declaration of age does not count as an effective measure, according to an Irish Times Q&A of July 21, 2025. Biometric Update, on July 9, 2025, gives the penalty: the regulator can fine non-compliant platforms up to 20 million euros or 10 percent of annual turnover.

Whether dating apps fall under the Code is not stated. It applies to video-sharing platform services, and none of the sources read mention dating apps. No Irish age check for a named dating app is on record in them either.

Dating app prices on the Irish App Store

Every price here is an iPhone App Store row for Ireland, in EUR, and each app appears at its cheapest listed row. Only some listings state a billing period. Match has no Irish listing, so it has no row.

The lowest listed rows on the Irish App Store are Badoo Premium at EUR 2.99, SCRUFF Browsing Pro at EUR 3.99 and Pure App Membership at EUR 4.99, none with a period stated. At the other end of the Irish App Store, eharmony Basic is EUR 29.99, Ashley Madison Preferred EUR 22.49 and Plenty of Fish Upgrade EUR 19.99, again with no period.

Five rows do state one. Hud Premium is EUR 8.49 for 1 week on the Irish App Store and Down VIP EUR 14.99 for 1 week; Grindr's row is EUR 11.99 for 1 month, happn's EUR 14.99 for 1 month and Feeld's Majestic Membership EUR 16.99 for 30 days. A single week of Down VIP is therefore listed above a month of Grindr, and at the same amount as a month of happn. Hinge+ is also EUR 14.99 on the Irish App Store, but its listing states no period, as is true of Tinder Plus at EUR 8.99, so neither can be set against the weekly rows. Google Play and web prices are not covered. Prices for the neighboring storefront in pounds are on the UK page, and more price pages sit under price pages by app.

Local apps on the Irish App Store

All eleven apps in the Irish local list are marked international; none is marked local. Instinct: Casual Dating App has the most ratings at 2,709 on its Irish listing, followed by Flava: Casual Dating & Chat with 1,513, Casual Dating & Flirt - Kasual with 804, Bumpy - International Dating with 471 and FET: Kinky BDSM Dating App with 123. The other six show no rating count. Five listings carry Spanish or Portuguese titles, and the title of Muzz reads "Where Muslims Marry".

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