Tinder

You've almost certainly at least heard of Tinder even if you've never used it, but there's really no reason to avoid it if you're in the market to meet someone new. The tool is great if you travel a lot and need help meeting local singles in an efficient and fast way, and it helps you extend your reach to new social circles by intermingling with as many people as possible. Tinder is responsible for over 26 million matches every single day. That's why they have such a strong reputation, and that reputation is an excellent self-fulfilling cycle. Dating apps tend to be ranked higher when they are used by more people, hence providing a wider pool of potential matches. Since Tinder has such a good reputation for creating matches, it attracts new users who are searching for their own matches. This boost in users only makes the software more useful, so it continues to build until there are essentially no more potential users. The actual use of Tinder is quite basic. Once you create your profile, you can start searching for matches. Tinder will show you a photo of a potential match, and you must either swipe left to pass on that person or swipe right to like them. If that person likes you back, it creates a match. This system ensures matches only happen when both individuals show interest in the other. Most Tinder users will tell you to swipe right on just about everyone since that will give you the most potential matches, but you can easily be a bit pickier if you would like to be. That's really all there is to the basic free version of Tinder, but there are two other tiers with various advanced features for those who don't mind paying a premium price. The Tinder Plus package includes the ability to like as many profiles as you want, the ability to chat with those outside your country, a second chance for a single user, and a free monthly profile boost that will show your profile before others in your area for a period of half an hour. The highest tier of the software is called Tinder Gold, and it provides all the benefits of Tinder Plus along with a few other added benefits. Those include the ability to see who has liked you before you swipe either way for that profile. This essentially means the software will display your potential matches that have liked you so you won't have to go through the hassle of swiping through profiles who may never swipe back.