Dating Apps in India: Do they even work?

If you’re a single adult who’s struggling to find a suitable partner you could call yours, then we’re sure that you must have at least asked yourself once if dating apps in India even work, or if you should make an account there.

And guess what? We’ve decided to review it for you.

After all, what’s better than a dating app in India reviewing dating apps in India? Very truthfully, we assure you.

To answer your question in a simple sentence, it depends on what you want from the dating apps.

We’ll explain.

Dating apps: A bazaar for various intentions

As the name suggests, dating apps are for…well, dating. They’re there to help you connect with a person you could go out on a date with.

But dates are usually not an end in themselves. They’re part of a process.

You go out on a date to spend time with someone so as to understand them.

The motive?

Well, either because you see them as a potential love interest, or a person you can hook-up with.

Now this is where the main problem lies, more so in India where casual sex isn’t as casual as in its Western counterparts.

Dating apps have both types of people - those looking for love, and those looking for hookups.

Whether or not dating apps work for you in India depends upon how efficiently they connect you with people who have the same motive as yours.

Can you find true love on Dating Apps in India?

Don’t hate us for being this blunt, but the chances of you finding love on dating apps are bleak - at least if they continue to work the way they do.

As we mentioned earlier, there is a problem of mismatch of intentions on dating apps.

And sadly, it’s not desirable for dating apps to connect you with the right person. It’s bad for business (we’ve covered that in a different post).

What makes it worse is that more men want casual sex on these apps than relationships or love, making your suitable partner a pinprick in the ocean if you’re a woman, and akin to climbing K2 if you’re a man.

Not to mention the skewed gender-ratio, and how easy it is to make profiles on many of these apps that they’ve become a haven for fraudsters. We also wrote an X (Twitter) thread on this problem:

And god forbid if you’re a woman! There will be creeps using anything and everything on your profile to stalk you and message you on your social media handles.

All in all, dating apps in India don’t work that well if you’re looking for love or stable relationships that could culminate into a marriage.

Don’t believe us?

Ask yourself - of all the weddings you’ve attended this year, how many of those couples met through a dating app?

The statistics are in front of you.

But hey, chin up! That the dating apps don’t work for you also means they don’t work for other people like you.

That’s a good thing, believe us.

How, you ask?

Sunday: A Dating App for long-term relationships

Even dating apps have realised that they’re not able to connect people looking for love.

They’ve been losing their Daily Active Users (DAU) in India, and are now shifting away to connect people for friendships instead.

But that is just running away from the problem, no?

The problem still exists - those looking for love have no platform to connect with each other.

Yet, thankfully.

The dating industry was laden with so many mismatches between the motives of the apps and the users, even between various users, that we decided to build a solution.

Sunday - a dating app for only those who want meaningful relationships, not just casual flings.

Hard to ensure that, right?

Yes, we know. We’ve been on it for months now.

We’ve put in several measures to make sure that our app remains free of men looking for casual sex, or even feigning their interest in a relationship.

But what sets it apart is not that it’s built with meaningful relationships as the focal point, or that much safer than most dating apps (especially for women), but that it’s completely free.

Not only can men not make a profile unless they have an invite from a woman, but the images on the profile are blurred by default for more privacy.

Yes, all of that at no cost. We really are passionate about this problem.

To quote ourselves from the beginning of this blog, “If you’re a single adult who’s struggling to find a suitable partner you could call yours”, you finally have a solution.

Looking for love in a sea of casual hookups is now much simpler.

How simple, exactly?

As simple as joining our waitlist, to give love a chance to find you.

Join the waitlist