Dating App Development: Build your own Tinder

What is love? It’s the greatest feeling that hits from head to toe. Real love is hard to find and this is what lots of people are striving to get.

Thanks to modern technologies, finding the love of your whole life isn’t a challenge anymore. You don’t have to go to a professional matchmaker to hook up with someone. Just download the app, tap, and swipe for relevant people.

It’s hardly possible to explain love in numbers, but the dating app can be easily broken down to the ballpark figures to justify the market depth for developing an app like Tinder.

Here is what we have found out:

• The dating apps generate over $3 billion revenue every year.
• The industry is growing 17% annually
• Customers tend to spend $243 for subscriptions and in-app purchases.
• There are 54K single people in the U.S. 49K people have tried online dating.
• Tinder has over 10 million daily active users.
• The estimated cost of Tinder has reached $1.6 billion with $121 million generated by in-app purchases and subscriptions.

The market depth is evident and the profitability of developing a Tinder clone is estimated. Let’s move on discussing the things linked to the app development process.

How does Tinder work?

Tinder is a popular and free dating app available for iOS and Android. Unlike conventional dating app, Tinder uses the geographical proximity when matching the candidates. The app is great for building both a short or long-term relationship. To find the love of your life, just tap the app.

To start a conversation, there should be a mutual like (or a right swipe). If you swipe left, it means you don’t like a potential candidate, and no conversations can be started. So you won’t get annoyed by dozens of useless small talks.

Tinder offers matches analyzing your data such as location, common interests, mutual friends, etc. To narrow the search, you can specify the gender and age range. And if there is someone meeting your requirements, Tinder will give you a jingle.

What stands behind the app success? Of course, its simplicity and visuals. Everything starts with a registration process that is extremely simple. Tinder allows registration via Facebook. You can add or delete your personal data. Note, the user should upload photos to look nice and get more swipes.

Essential features to integrate

The cost required to create a Tinder clone depends on the type of the app as well as the features it needs to have. Tinder is a dating app using geolocation for matches.

• Registration

A registration process is easy while the app allows logging-in with a Facebook account. To build a Tinder profile, the app pulls the necessary information from a Facebook account. The users can filter candidates according to the age and gender preferences, certain areas, etc. Tinder will offer a match and the user has to make a Yes/No decision.

• Geolocation

Using geographical proximity for matching is something that makes Tinder special and popular dating app. The app offers the nearby candidates which can be swept right or left. But a paid subscription delivers a wider location area.

• Private chat

As we mentioned above, a private chat is opened when both participants swept right. The following ensures that the users communicate freely and safely.

• Push notifications

When a user gets a match or a message, the app should alert. It’s a one-stop feature for all apps involving the user interaction.

• In-app purchases

Tinder has several options to upgrade the app and all of them are paid – super likes, rewind button, location change, Tinder Plus, etc. And if you’re going to build a Tinder clone, don’t forget to implement in-app purchases.

Stop-features for a dating app:

• Unverified accounts
• Too long registration process
• Too much advertising
• Compulsory social media integration
• Abusive content  

Your development team should include…

Taking into account that Tinder is a complex app requiring experts from various IT spheres – designers, developers, testing professionals, etc.

Quality and highly-intuitive design makes Tinder stand out from the crowd. The users don’t like spending long hours trying to figure out how to use an app.

Remember, an app simplicity is your key to a long-term app success. UX/UI design is your prime concern when developing a dating app.

Who should you hire?

• Graphic designers to create awesome graphics
• UX designers to work out user-friendly flow of the app as well as wireframes
• Mobile app developers to build a Tinder-like app
• QA and Testing professionals to ensure a bug-free application

Conclusions

The development of an app like Tinder is a multistage process involving lots of time and money. Speaking about the cost, a dating app like Tinder demands to invest $10,000 to $250,000 depending on the hourly rate, but it‘s another major issue to cover.