{"id":75098,"date":"2014-10-21T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=75098"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:24:29","slug":"premium-features-coming-to-dating-app-tinder-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/premium-features-coming-to-dating-app-tinder-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium features coming soon to dating app Tinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular dating apps launched in recent years, <a href=\"http:\/\/tinder.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinder<\/a> has grown quickly by mixing a simple idea and being free to use. Now, co-founder and CEO Sean Rad has announced that a <strong>premium service<\/strong> will be launched in early November.<\/p>\n<p>Tinder is a <strong>simple dating app<\/strong> that matches your location and an age range, and lets you swipe through the profiles of potential dates. Swipe right to &#8216;like&#8217; a profile, and the other to ignore it. When two users like each other, they are matched, and able to chat to each other in the app. It&#8217;s free to use, but you need a <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> profile to sign up for the service. It&#8217;s available for iOS and Android.<\/p>\n<p>Rad hasn&#8217;t given details about how Tinder premium will work, but he did say that it will &#8216;add features users have been begging us for,&#8217; and that they would be willing to pay for them. One feature might focus on traveling, and Forbes suggest it might &#8216;move Tinder&#8230;beyond dating&#8217;, although that might make the app much less focused.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no suggestion that Tinder&#8217;s current features will be charged for yet. Rad says 1.2 billion profiles are viewed via the app every day, but won&#8217;t comment on user numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevenbertoni\/2014\/10\/20\/tinder-swipes-right-to-revenue-will-add-premium-service-in-november\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Tinder Moments lets you share photos for 24 hours\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/tinder-moments-lets-you-share-photos-for-24-hours\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinder Moments lets you share photos for 24 hours<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Study: Social networks can spread sadness\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/study-social-networks-can-spread-sadness\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Study: Social networks can spread sadness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tinder introducing 'verified accounts' for celebrities\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/tinder-introducing-verified-acccounts-for-celebrities\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tinder introducing &#8216;verified accounts&#8217; for celebrities<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular dating apps launched in recent years, Tinder has grown quickly by mixing a simple idea and being free to use. Now, co-founder and CEO Sean Rad has announced that a premium service will be launched in early November. Tinder is a simple dating app that matches your location and an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/premium-features-coming-to-dating-app-tinder-soon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Premium features coming soon to dating app Tinder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2504],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-75098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontinder"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329957,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75098\/revisions\/329957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75098"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=75098"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=75098"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=75098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}