Bumble Dating App: Meet & Date

Bumble Review: Anyone Can Open the Chat Now, but Your Likes Stay Locked

Free Tier: Swipes, Matches and the New 72-Hour Clock

A free account can swipe, match, message and video chat, and Snooze Mode hides you without deleting existing matches. Since August 11, 2026, either person can send the opener within 72 hours, and the other then has 72 more hours to reply before the match expires; under the old rule only women could open in opposite-gender matches, on a 24-hour clock. The paid line starts at the Liked You list: admirers stay blurred until you buy Premium or one-off access, though a developer reply on Google Play says they still appear in your regular deck if they fit your filters. Extend, Rematch and Backtrack sit in Boost, the cheapest plan.

Anyone Messages First: What Replaced Opening Moves

The company said 66% of women it surveyed preferred men to send the first message. The app now flags bare openers such as "hi" or "hey" and suggests something more personal, but still sends them. Opening Moves, the 2024 compromise that let women pin a question for matches to answer, is gone according to September 2026 Play reviews, which also say fewer matches write at all. A Really Into You tab, added in September 2026 updates, groups people who spent longer on your profile or sent a SuperSwipe or Note. In May 2026, CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd said swiping will be replaced in a redesign due in the fourth quarter.

Boost, Premium and Premium+: What $2.99 to $32.99 Buys

Boost covers unlimited swipes, Extend, Rematch, Backtrack, five SuperSwipes and one 30-minute Spotlight a week. Premium adds the Liked You list, Advanced Filters, Incognito Mode and Travel Mode; Premium+ raises SuperSwipes to 10 a week and adds profile insights. The US App Store lists Premium at $17.99, $19.99 and $32.99 and Boost from $2.99 to $12.99 without naming plan lengths, and the terms say promotional rates vary by region, subscription length and bundle size. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region. Purchases are non-refundable except where local law adds a window, such as three business days in 12 US states, and the terms rule out refunds for blocked members.

ID Verification, Face Scans and Six-Year Data Retention

ID verification, rolled out from March 2025, asks for a government ID and a selfie that Veriff, a third party, compares and keeps for up to 72 hours. Face scans from photo verification are held up to three years after your last interaction. Deleting an account clears most profile data within 28 days, but location coordinates, email, phone, name and birthday stay for six years. Apple's label lists location, contact info, identifiers and usage data as usable for cross-app tracking, and Google Play's form lists sexual orientation as collected. A $40 million Illinois settlement over facial scans of Bumble and Badoo users from 2016 to 2021 included a pledge to delete that biometric data.