grindr.com
Grindr
Who runs Grindr, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online dating app alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Scruff
Measured from Grindr’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Grindr01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Grindr
Grindr grindr.com
Grindr is the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Download Grindr today to discover, connect to, and explore the queer world around you.
Wikidata: smartphone dating/hookup application
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Grindr tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
9 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Grindr
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Grindr, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
SCRUFF
SCRUFF - The world's most reliable gay dating app. Meet, match, and connect with men in your area.
Very close - 02
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Very close - 03
JACK'D
Meet, chat, and connect with guys on JACK'D.
Very close - 04
ROMEO | Gay, Bi and Trans Dating and Chat | Dates. Friends. Love
The top choice for gay, bi and trans dating. Find dates, make friends and fall in love on the ROMEO website, iOS or Android app. Happy dating!
Very close - 05
Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Very close - 06
Feeld: The Dating App for Open-Minded Individuals
Feeld connects open-minded people exploring love, desire, and alternative relationships in a safe, inclusive space.
Very close - 07
Adam4Adam - Free online dating & hookup, gay, chat, cam
Adam4Adam is the free gay dating site with chat, cams and millions of guys near you. Join the biggest LGBTQ+ dating community and find your Adam today!
Very close - 08
Bumble | Date, Chat & Meet New People
Bumble is a social network that allows you to feel empowered while making connections, whether you're dating or looking for friends.
Very close - 09
Download Hinge, the dating app designed to be deleted | Hinge
Hinge is built on the belief that anyone looking for love should be able to find it. It’s also built on an acclaimed Nobel-Prize-winning algorithm, so we can succeed in getting you out on promising dates, not keeping you on the app.
Very close - 10
Open-Minded Dating App. : PURE.APP
The best dating app for open-minded people | Privacy Features | Safety & Trust | Location-Based Dating | Dating around the Globe |: PURE.APP :
Very close - 11
smartphone dating/hookup application
Very close - 12
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Very close - 13 OkCupid okcupid.com
an online dating platform
Very close - 14
Home | Viber
cross-platform instant messaging voice-over-Internet Protocol application for smartphones
Very close - 15
Dating site to meet singles & find real love!
eharmony is a dating site with over 20 year's experience. Our matching helps you to find real love. Sign up for free and meet thousands of like-minded singles.
Very close - 16
Locket - Best friends first
Add your friends to your Home Screen, share weekly recaps, and keep your people close. Locket is for best friends first.
Very close - 17
Best Free Online Dating Site & App - Friends, Chat, Flirt | Badoo
Join Badoo’s community - the best free online dating app. Chat before you match, meet & date people in your area or make new friends from all over the world.
Very close - 18
Komoot | Find, plan and share your adventures
Turn your next ride, hike, or run into an adventure with komoot. Get inspired by tapping into shared community knowledge and recommendations, then bring your adventures to life with the easy route planner.
Very close - 19
Telegram Messenger
Fast. Secure. Powerful.
Very close - 20
online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Grindr’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Grindr uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Grindr adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 20 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Grindr’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Website builders
- Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=2d486d28b3734851ba76393c726f501c
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=fb7710997b9764b794779216fd3204168dd98b5e65e689e4f…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630d2b5e3e62dd-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@finsweet/attributes-richtext@1/richtext.js
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/plyr@3.8.4/dist/plyr.min.js
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms29911291
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1245.awsdns-27.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=DCIgLhzlxWqLmK1y
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=khgDRBAjfdWVLV8MWUyjlfae5T6sj8Oo/5KeiEF…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=c1cba6a7-3c89-496f-abbd-a0e8594e43b7
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=gzLLvSn3M4vrJOea85nJ84jj0o3ImmMSlmc4xfxwG8M
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-KVtU7PnT6pTqHhlEwqWUoxsR
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:mg-sp…
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_CvkacunjQA2eucdxNIaU9g
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Zendesk 14/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on grindr.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on grindr.com 7/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on grindr.com 6/20
- Next.js · not on grindr.com 6/20
- React · not on grindr.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on grindr.com 6/20
- Atlassian 6/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on grindr.com 5/20
- nginx · not on grindr.com 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on grindr.com 4/20