It doesn’t matter how high your self-confidence is, once you’ve gone through a dry period of matches on Hinge, you start reaching for the tinfoil hat and coming up with conspiracy theories. You find yourself asking, does Hinge know how attractive you are? Or worse, does Hinge decide if you’re ugly? Thankfully, you don’t have …

Is your age wrong on Bumble? Are you wondering why? I know, I know, we don’t always sign up for things while we’re in the best of conditions. Sometimes it’s all a bit of a blur, with the next few days being a series of mystery packages turning up from amazon, finding abandoned pizza slices …

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus was a ‘90s dating staple. This is a book that entertains the idea that men and women communicate differently – the central metaphor? We’re from different planets! If you’re a Millennial you’ll probably remember the book being referenced in everything from romcoms to sitcoms. And maybe remember …

Ah Tinder, the OG dating app giant. Used by seemingly everyone, from my recently divorced aunt to my weird teenage next-door neighbor. It really is an app that spans demographics.  I mean, I’ve been using Tinder on and off for years. It’s my job, after all. You’d find it tough to find a person on …

It’s not always easy to get the conversation flowing on the apps, despite the fact that you just matched and therefore must have some interest in each other. Conversation starters are a classic Tinder problem, and questions that seem to come up over and over again are ‘Why are you on Tinder?’, ‘What are you …

Bumble has made loads of changes through 2020 and 2021, from introducing video chat options and Night In trivia games (check out my review of Bumble Night In here). Just when it seemed like the most empathetic mainstream app was about to be one-upped by Tinder bringing in their Safety Center, the app made by …

Throughout the latter months of 2022, Tinder has been rolling out a new feature from India to the Netherlands. Well, lots of new features actually. But this isn’t a new game to see if you’re compatible with a match or a fresh way to categorize the hotties in your area. It’s not a new photo …

Never one to rest on its laurels, despite still being the most popular dating app in the US over a decade after its launch, Tinder has added yet more new features for fall 2022.  What are Tinder’s new features for 2022? Well, they’ve added photo verification (useful if you want to avoid bots and catfishing, …

You might have heard of Feeld. It’s often referred to as ‘the threesome app’, at least in the US. And, admittedly, it does facilitate threesomes and polyamory really well which is great given the reported post-pandemic spike in threesomes! However, Feeld does a lot more than just hook up couples who want a third with …

Bumble has had a few new features for 2022, including Video Notes, 360 Video, and most excitingly, ‘Night In’. But what is Bumble’s new Night In Feature? Basically, it’s the women-first swiping giants’ attempt at jumping on the ‘virtual dating’ bandwagon. And if we’re honest, pushing that wagon and getting it genuinely rolling. Bumble launched …