Tinder Dating App: Date & Chat

Tinder Review: Matching Is Free, but Prices Change From Buyer to Buyer

What Free Accounts Get Before the Likes Cap Kicks In

Without a subscription you can still build a profile, swipe, match and message, on the phone apps or on Tinder for Web. The first limit is on Likes: the help center lists unlimited daily Likes among Plus perks but publishes no figure for free accounts. The second is the Likes page: seeing who already liked you requires Gold or Platinum, though some iOS markets are testing it as a one-off purchase. Ads are the third limit, and even some Plus subscribers see them during tests. Double Date, which lets you invite up to three friends and opens a four-person group chat when two pairs match, costs nothing where it is offered.

Face Check: What the Video Selfie Keeps, and Who Gets Locked Out

Face Check is a short video selfie that tests whether a live person is holding the phone and whether that face matches the profile photos. By October 2025 it was mandatory for new accounts in California and seven countries, with other US states promised over the following months; a pass adds the Photo Verified badge. The video is deleted after review, but the FaceMap and FaceVector derived from it are kept for the life of the account and erased within 30 days of closing it. Accounts flagged for unusual activity are frozen until they pass a similar Photo Check, and September 2026 Play reviews describe verification loops that kept paying subscribers out for a week or more.

Plus, Gold or Platinum: Four Gold Prices on One US Store

Plus removes the Like cap and ads and adds Rewind, Passport and incognito; Gold keeps all of that and adds weekly Super Likes, one 30-minute Boost a month and the Likes page; Platinum adds Priority Likes, shown before those of non-subscribers. The US App Store lists Tinder Plus at $9.99, four different Gold prices from $13.99 to $24.99 and single Boosts from $3.99 to $7.99, without plan lengths. The terms of use say promotional rates vary by region, plan length, past purchases and account activity. Stepping down is clumsy: Google Play and tinder.com do not support downgrades, so you cancel, wait for the plan to expire and subscribe again. Check the current price in the app; it varies by region.

Precise Location, Face Data and an Opt-In Camera Roll Scan

Apple's privacy label says identifiers may be used to track you across other companies' apps, and lists precise location, contacts and photos among data linked to your identity. Google Play's Data safety form adds an optional sexual orientation field and says device IDs are shared for advertising. Chemistry, the AI recommendation layer that reached the US in March 2026, can draw on Camera Roll Scan: an opt-in scan that runs on the phone, then uploads selected photos to the company's servers and its AI provider, deleting them unless you add them to your profile. Deleting the account does not cancel a subscription, which has to be stopped where it was bought, and profile data is held for 90 days before it is purged.