Best dating apps in the UK

Which apps have a UK App Store listing

The list below comes from an iTunes lookup of the UK App Store on November 5, 2026. Sixteen reviewed apps have a listing there, among them Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Feeld and Grindr. Smaller apps with a UK listing include Fling, 3Fun, Hornet and Taimi. The lookup returned no UK listing for Coffee Meets Bagel, Match, Zoosk, OurTime and Doublelist.

That lookup covers the iPhone App Store only. Google Play and web availability by country cannot be checked this way, so a service missing above may still serve the UK. Browser-first services such as AdultFriendFinder, BeNaughty and Sniffies have no iPhone app to look up, which leaves their UK status open here; the page on browser-based dating sites covers that group.

Best dating apps in the UK on local ranking lists

The first Google UK results page for "best dating apps in the uk" holds eight results, four of them ranking lists, and two of those lists sit on UK domains. Tinder is named in all four. Hinge is in three, Bumble in two, and Facebook Dating, 3Fun, Match and Plenty of Fish once each.

The hookup version of the query, "best hookup apps in the uk", returns five lists, three on UK domains. Tinder is in all five again. Bumble is in three, Hinge and OkCupid in two each, and Facebook Dating, Fling, Badoo and Feeld in one each. Tinder is the only app both queries agree on, and no other name is on every list for either query.

The general ranking, with no country filter, is on dating apps ranked, and the hookup-intent list is on our hookup app ranking. City pages sit under city guides.

Age checks and the Online Safety Act

Ofcom's letter to services that allow pornography, dated April 24, 2025, sets the date: from July 25, 2025 those services must use highly effective age assurance to stop people under 18 from encountering pornography. The rule reaches a dating app where the app permits pornographic content. Ofcom's dating and social discovery guidance, published May 18, 2026, says such services must use highly effective age assurance in public profiles and in private messages.

Ofcom's age assurance report, dated July 15, 2026, found that over one in ten 15 to 17-year-olds were still visiting and spending time on three of the most used dating apps in December 2025. Only a search excerpt of the report was read, and it does not name the three apps. For services that rely on facial age estimation alone, Ofcom expects a challenge age and liveness detection to be added.

Two apps have a UK age check on record. Biometric Update reported in February 2026 that Hinge requires new and existing users in the UK and Australia to complete facial age estimation, and tied the requirement to the UK Online Safety Act and Australia's Social Media Minimum Age Act. Feeld's help page says UK and Australia members must be confirmed as 18 or older because of new legal requirements such as the Online Safety Act. Both were read as search excerpts, so the full wording of each check is not confirmed here. No other app is named in these sources.

Dating app prices on the UK App Store

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

The lowest listed rows on the UK App Store are Bumble Boost at GBP 2.49, SCRUFF Browsing Pro at GBP 2.99 and Tinder Plus at GBP 3.99, none with a period stated. At the other end of the UK App Store, eHarmony Basic is GBP 44.99, Ashley Madison Preferred GBP 23.99 and Plenty of Fish Upgrade GBP 19.99, again with no period.

Five rows do state one. Down VIP is GBP 12.99 for 1 week on the UK App Store, as is Hud Premium; Pure Membership is GBP 16.99 for 1 week; Feeld Subscription is GBP 17.99 for 30 days; Grindr's row is GBP 8.49 for 1 month. A single week of Hud Premium is therefore listed above a month of Grindr. Hinge+ is GBP 12.99 and happn is GBP 8.49 on the UK App Store, the same amounts as those two, but their listings state no period, so they cannot be set against the weekly rows. Google Play and web prices are not covered. More price pages sit under price pages by app.

Local apps on the UK App Store

Of the eleven apps in the UK local list, one is marked local: Breeze - No Chat, Just Dates, with 6,369 ratings on its UK listing. The other ten are marked international. Flava: Casual Dating & Chat has the most ratings in the list at 45,278, followed by Instinct: Casual Dating App with 29,890 and Casual Dating & Flirt - Kasual with 8,352. The remaining 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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