Dating apps with advanced filters: which filters are free and which are paid

Dating apps with advanced filters and what they call them

Advanced filters narrow who you see beyond basics such as age and distance, for example by relationship goals, lifestyle or other profile fields. The definition follows HER's help article on HER Premium, which names the fields in a Premium section.

The label changes from app to app. Badoo, Bumble and HER call it Advanced Filters. Match sells advanced filters inside its Platinum and Diamond tiers, and Coffee Meets Bagel's paid version is Premium Preferences. HUD's App Store listing says advanced match filters while Google Play calls it Advanced Search. DOWN says Powerful Filters, Feeld says Filter by Desires & Last Seen, and OkCupid says Dealbreakers. Plenty of Fish and Ashley Madison use plain search filters, Pure has feed filters, and Grindr says Filters.

Which filters are free

DOWN's FAQ says the app lets you filter by gender, location and dating preferences, and that a free account can do this. Plenty of Fish says free members can filter by gender, location, age, distance, religion and more, and its Meet Me feature has separate age and distance filters. Coffee Meets Bagel's free preferences cover gender, age, distance, ethnicity, religion and relationship goals. Match says free members get custom search filters, and Grindr says free accounts can filter their search. The last two entries do not list the fields.

Where the free line sits is not always clear. The Plenty of Fish help article on its paid plans lists extended profile content, such as whether someone has or wants children and lifestyle habits, as a POF Plus perk. DOWN's FAQ does not say which other filters need a paid plan. Apps that are free throughout are sorted in free-tier dating apps and free hookup apps.

Which plan carries the advanced filters

Bumble's Google Play listing puts Advanced Filters under Bumble Premium, with filters such as What are they looking for? Feeld's Majestic Membership page says the plan lets you use advanced filtering options that help you find members who match your Desires. HER Premium has an Advanced Filters section, and the pages checked do not say whether HER Gold or HER Platinum includes it. Grindr's App Store listing puts its extra filters in XTRA.

Match splits the feature in two. Platinum lets you apply advanced filters for dating preferences, and Diamond lets you filter by dating intent on Discover. The Google Play listing adds that packages may change based on location, so what a tier holds can differ by country.

Coffee Meets Bagel and OkCupid list theirs as paid without naming the tier. The Coffee Meets Bagel help article does not say which subscription adds Premium Preferences, and OkCupid's Google Play listing says Dealbreakers sit under the paid subscription. Prices for these plans, by country and store, are collected under how dating app pricing works.

What the paid filters filter on

Each app builds its own list. HER's covers identity and lifestyle: looking for (monogamous, poly, new friends), verified profiles, gender identity, sexual identity, pronouns, Pride Pins, relationship status, lifestyle fields and last online. The verified profiles filter draws on the checks compared in verification across apps.

Coffee Meets Bagel's Premium Preferences add height, education, family plans, kids, marital status, smoking, drinking and exercise, and its Discover section has search filters of its own. Grindr's XTRA adds filtering by position and relationship status, plus online-now and with-photo views. Feeld filters by Desires and Last Seen, and Match by dating preferences and dating intent.

Dealbreakers at OkCupid and Coffee Meets Bagel

OkCupid defines a dealbreaker by what it does: it shows you only people who meet a preference. The Google Play listing says Dating Preferences are free and Dealbreakers are listed under the paid subscription, with one exception. Gender and orientation preferences act as dealbreakers for free.

Coffee Meets Bagel's help article says preferences can be set as dealbreakers. It does not say whether that setting is itself paid; the only split it gives is between free preferences and Premium Preferences.

Badoo sells unlimited filters

Badoo's App Store listing names Advanced Filters and describes them as Finesse your search. Premium adds unlimited use of them, and the help center says Get unlimited filters. The paid layer is a quantity there. What the free limit is, the pages checked do not say.

Ashley Madison, HUD and Pure list filters without a plan

The Ashley Madison store descriptions list Search Filters and Interests and Desires Tags, and whether any filter is paid is not stated. HUD's listings name advanced match filters, and Google Play describes filtering matches to suit your lifestyle and intentions. Which plan includes them is not stated either.

Pure's FAQ says feed filters work by city and that a Turn-ons filter offers Perfect Match. Pure Queen adds Filter all likes. The pages checked do not break down which other filters need a subscription. How apps use distance and city is covered under apps that show people nearby.

Apps where advanced filters are not confirmed

The sources read for AdultFriendFinder, happn, Hinge and Tinder did not confirm advanced filters, so whether those apps have them is open. Filters sit with the other controls in dating app features, and incognito mode and changing your location in dating apps have their own pages.