The 10 Dating Apps Americans Actually Use in 2026 (Ranked by Data)
Tinder is the most-used dating app in the United States in our data — one of only two records out of 309 app-country rows in the whole DateAtlas dataset to score a perfect 10/10 for usage. Hinge follows at 9/10 and Bumble at 8/10. Below that, the American top ten stops being a story about the big three: three of the next seven places go to apps built for a specific community, and the cheapest app in the top ten costs a third of what the most expensive one does.
Citation-ready summary
Dating apps in the United States — key figures
22 apps tracked in the United States as of dataset v2026.07. Usage and safety scores are DateAtlas estimates on a 0-10 scale; prices are the monthly premium tier we recorded, in USD.
- Apps tracked in the US
- 22
- Most-used app
- Tinder (10/10)
- Avg app safety score
- 7.05/10 (14th of 30)
- Avg premium price
- $19.32/mo
- Most expensive app tracked
- The League, $99.99/mo
- Country safety index
- 4.6/10 — 7th lowest of 30
- Average date cost
- $125
- DateAtlas Dating Score
- 70.5/100 (joint 17th of 30)
Cite as: DateAtlas, “Dating apps in the United States — key figures,” dataset v2026.07, https://dateatlas.app/blog/dating-apps-americans-use-2026/. Values are comparative estimates derived from third-party sources. See the methodology and source notes.
The ranking, and exactly how it is built
We track 22 dating apps in the United States. The table below is the top ten, sorted by our usage score, with ties broken first by safety score, then by Google Play rating, then alphabetically. No other input is used — not brand, not our own opinion of the product, not who could pay us (nobody does; see our disclaimer).
| # | App | Usage | Safety | Premium/mo | Play Store |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tinder | 10/10 | 7/10 | $9.99 | 3.8★ (8,039,999 reviews) |
| 2 | Hinge | 9/10 | 8/10 | $19.99 | 3.4★ (356,000 reviews) |
| 3 | Bumble | 8/10 | 8/10 | $16.99 | 3.9★ (1,330,000 reviews) |
| 4 | OkCupid | 7/10 | 8/10 | $14.99 | 3.4★ (631,000 reviews) |
| 5 | BLK | 7/10 | 7/10 | $9.99 | 4.2★ (122,000 reviews) |
| 6 | Boo | 7/10 | 7/10 | $6.99 | 4.0★ (2,680,000 reviews) |
| 7 | Coffee Meets Bagel | 6/10 | 8/10 | $19.99 | 3.1★ (118,000 reviews) |
| 8 | Chispa | 6/10 | 7/10 | $9.99 | 4.2★ (106,000 reviews) |
| 9 | Muzz | 6/10 | 7/10 | $9.99 | 4.0★ (221,000 reviews) |
| 10 | Zoosk | 6/10 | 7/10 | $19.99 | 3.3★ (601,000 reviews) |
Match misses the cut on the last tiebreak only: it matches Zoosk on usage (6/10) and safety (7/10) but sits behind it on Play rating at 3.1★ from 144,000 reviews. The other twelve apps we track in the US — including Stir, Mutual, WooPlus, Dil Mil, eHarmony, The League, Happn, Pure, 3Fun, Badoo and Once — all score 5/10 or below on usage. The full 22 are on our United States dating guide.
What the usage score is
It is a DateAtlas estimate of how widely an app is used in a given country, scored 0–10. It is not measured monthly active users; no dating company publishes country-level MAU to us. So read the table as bands — a 10 and a 9 are both "everyone has heard of this", a 6 is "real but second-tier" — rather than as a precise ordering. That caveat, and every other one, is spelled out in our methodology.
The Play Store column is different in kind: those are observed numbers from our Google Play snapshot, not estimates. They are also global, not American, and they are a point-in-time scrape, so they answer "how is this app rated overall" rather than "how is it rated by Americans this week".
Three of the top ten are community apps
The most interesting thing in the American table is not at the top. Places 5, 8 and 9 go to BLK, built for Black singles in the US; Chispa, built for Latino and Hispanic singles; and Muzz, a marriage-focused app for Muslim singles. All three score 7/10 or 6/10 on usage — comfortably ahead of several household names — and all three beat Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, OkCupid and Zoosk on Play Store rating. BLK and Chispa both sit at 4.2★, the highest of any app in our American top ten.
They are also cheap relative to the mainstream: BLK, Chispa and Muzz all record a $9.99 monthly premium, the same as Tinder and half of Hinge's $19.99.
Price: the top ten spans a 3x range, the full list spans a lot more
Within the top ten, Boo is the cheapest at $6.99 a month and Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel and Zoosk are the most expensive at $19.99 — a factor of 2.9 between them. Across all 22 apps we track in the US, the average monthly premium is $19.32, which makes America the 12th most expensive of our 30 countries for dating-app subscriptions. Germany tops that list at $31.18 and Russia is cheapest at $7.49.
Two outliers are worth naming. The League records $99.99 a month — the single highest premium price in all 309 app-country records in our dataset, five times Hinge's US price — and its Play Store rating, 2.9★ from 5,900 reviews with 45.5% of them one-star, is among the lowest we hold for any American app. At the other end, Mutual is the only app in our American set with a recorded premium price of $0.
The safety picture, honestly
The 22 apps we track in the US average 7.05/10 on our per-app safety score, which is 14th of the 30 countries we cover — squarely mid-table, well above Russia's 5.50/10 and well below Sweden's 8.30/10. Within the US set, Hinge, Bumble, OkCupid and Coffee Meets Bagel score highest at 8/10. Only two of the 22 records show no profile verification feature: Happn and Pure.
The country-level number is less flattering. The United States scores 4.6/10 on our safety index, derived from Numbeo's crime index — the seventh lowest of our 30 countries — and the US is one of 13 countries we flag for scam prevalence. Neither of those is a statement about any app; they are context for where you are meeting. Our safety guide covers the practical version.
The rest of the American picture
The United States scores 636 on the EF English Proficiency Index, joint highest of our 30 countries alongside the Netherlands, and our dataset records an estimated online-dating user base of 75M — the second largest after China's 85M. Dating out is expensive: an average date costs $125 by our Numbeo-derived measure (mid-range meal for two, two domestic beers, two cappuccinos), the ninth priciest of 30 and nearly double Russia's $66.
The composite DateAtlas Dating Score for the US is 70.5 out of 100, joint 17th of 30. It is pulled up by English proficiency (100.0 normalised) and app coverage (100.0), and pulled down hard by cost affordability (37.5) and safety (46.0).
What we do not measure
We do not measure match rates, message response rates, fake-profile prevalence, moderation quality, or how any app handles refunds and billing disputes. Our usage and safety scores are editorial estimates from documented inputs. Prices are what we recorded and converted to USD, not official list prices, and app pricing changes constantly. If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say what changed.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most used dating app in the US?
Tinder, with a usage score of 10/10 in our United States data. It is one of only two records out of 309 in our entire dataset to score a perfect 10 — the other is Tinder in Brazil. Hinge is second at 9/10 and Bumble third at 8/10. Tinder is also the only app we track in all 30 of our countries.
Which US dating app is best for a serious relationship?
By our data, Hinge has the strongest combination of reach and safety score: 9/10 usage with 8/10 safety, the highest usage of any app we tag for serious intent in the US. Coffee Meets Bagel and OkCupid also score 8/10 on safety but sit lower on usage, at 6/10 and 7/10. These are our editorial estimates, not outcome measurements.
How much do dating apps cost in the US?
The 22 apps we track in the United States average $19.32 a month for their premium tier, making the US the 12th most expensive of our 30 countries. Within the top ten, prices run from $6.99 for Boo to $19.99 for Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel and Zoosk. The League is the outlier at $99.99 a month, the highest price in our entire dataset.
Are US dating apps free?
Almost all of them have a usable free tier and charge for a premium one. Of the 22 apps we track in the US, only Mutual records a premium price of $0 in our data. Every other app in our American set has a paid tier, ranging from $6.99 to $99.99 a month.
Which dating apps do Black, Latino and Muslim singles use in the US?
BLK (Black singles, 7/10 usage, 4.2★), Chispa (Latino and Hispanic singles, 6/10 usage, 4.2★) and Muzz (Muslim singles, marriage-focused, 6/10 usage, 4.0★) all place in our American top ten. All three are priced at $9.99 a month and all three carry higher Play Store ratings than Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, OkCupid or Zoosk.
Which dating app has the best reviews in the US?
Across all 22 apps we track in the United States, WooPlus holds the highest Google Play rating at 4.6★ from 68,200 reviews, followed by BLK, Chispa, Mutual and 3Fun at 4.2★. Within the top ten, BLK and Chispa lead at 4.2★, ahead of Boo and Muzz at 4.0★ and Bumble at 3.9★. The lowest-rated app in our American set is Pure at 2.6★, where 53.0% of reviews are one-star, followed by The League and eHarmony at 2.9★.
Last updated
Last updated 3 August 2026, against DateAtlas dataset v2026.07. Rankings, scores and prices are the values held in our dataset on that date; see how we build and score this data, including the vintage of each source and its known limitations. Every score and ranking here is our own editorial estimate, not a statement of fact about any app.