Best dating apps in Turkey

Which apps have a Turkish App Store listing

The Turkish App Store lookup of November 5, 2026 returned listings for twelve of the apps reviewed here: Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Feeld, Pure, HUD, HER, Badoo, OkCupid, happn, Plenty of Fish and Ashley Madison. Five smaller apps are listed as well: SilverSingles, EliteSingles, Lex, Casualx and The League. Fifteen apps returned no Turkish listing, among them Grindr, Match, Coffee Meets Bagel, eharmony, Hornet and SCRUFF.

That lookup covers the iPhone App Store only. Google Play and web availability by country cannot be checked this way, so an app missing from the store check may still serve Turkey. AdultFriendFinder, Facebook Dating, BeNaughty and Sniffies are browser-first and have no iPhone app to look up, which leaves their Turkish status open; the page on dating sites in a browser covers that group.

Dating app blocks reported in Turkey

Three blocks are on record, and all three rest on news reports. Each names a dating app, so each applies to dating apps, though most of the other apps in the 2025 report are video chat services.

Hurriyet Daily News reported on September 19, 2013 that a ruling of the 14th Criminal Court of Istanbul, implemented by Turkey's Directorate of Telecommunication (TIB), blocked Grindr. The paper calls it a "protective measure". After the block the app could still be downloaded but was "not properly accessible". A KAOS GL lawyer quoted in the article said the court decision was not published online, so the reason for the block is not stated. The article does not say whether the block is still in force, and that is not confirmed here. Grindr has no listing in the Turkish App Store lookup of November 5, 2026, and no source on record ties that gap to the order.

Bianet's article of September 2, 2025 states that Hornet, a social networking app frequently used by LGBTI+ people, has been blocked in Turkey since 2021. It is a passing statement: the 2021 order, its exact date and the authority behind it are not confirmed here. Hornet is also missing from the Turkish App Store lookup, and no source on record connects the two.

The same article reports that access to 29 dating and video chat apps was blocked on orders of Ankara's 3rd and 4th criminal judgeships of peace, at the request of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK). It names Tinder, Azar, LivU and Tango and says no official statement gave reasons. The headline says 29 apps but the text lists only 18 names, so the full list is not confirmed. The date of the court orders is not given, and the article does not say whether the block reaches the App Store listing. Tinder has a Turkish listing in the November 5, 2026 lookup. Whether the block still applies is not confirmed.

Best dating apps in Turkey on local search results

The first Google Turkey results page for "best dating apps in turkey" holds eight results. Three are ranking lists, one is an app store page and one is a forum page. None sits on a Turkish domain, and one is dated 2025 or 2026.

Tinder is named five times across those results and Bumble three times. Hinge, Badoo and OkCupid are named twice each, happn and Coffee Meets Bagel once each, and one more name appears once. The six apps named first each have a Turkish App Store listing in the lookup above, and Coffee Meets Bagel has none.

Eight English-language results with three lists and no local domain make a thin basis for saying what people in Turkey use. Local-language queries were not run, so Turkish-language results are not covered. The ranking with no country filter is on our dating app picks, and the hookup-intent list is on our hookup app ranking. City pages sit under city pages.

Dating app prices in Turkey

No iPhone App Store price row is on record for Turkey, so this page quotes no Turkish price. Google Play and web prices are not covered either. Prices for other countries are on price pages by app.

Local apps on the Turkish App Store

Of the eleven apps in the Turkish local list, two are marked local: Pembe Panjur Chat & Arkadaşlık with 32,942 ratings on its Turkish listing, and Siberalem: Arkadaşlık & Sohbet with 9,619. The other nine are marked international. Among those, Flava: Casual Dating & Chat has the most ratings at 14,615, followed by LOVOO - App de citas y chatear with 10,937, Bumpy - International Dating with 8,217, Instinct: Casual Dating App with 5,521 and Inner Circle Comunidad y Citas with 4,063. The remaining four show no rating count. Four listings carry Spanish titles, and the title of Muzz reads "Where Muslims Marry".

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