Dating Pro is a white-label dating software platform for launching and scaling branded dating websites and mobile apps — web, iOS and Android from one system.
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Apple will rate every dating app 18+. Owners must confirm by January 12. Hinge is testing a cheaper plan to win more paying women. Tokyo's AI matchmaker counts 337 marriages. This fortnight in dating: datingpro.com/blog/apple-mak… #OnlineDating #DatingApps
Bumble goes private for $1.3B. Character AI files for bankruptcy. Tolan raises $30M a week later. The AI companion market is splitting in two. Our October digest: datingpro.com/blog/bumble-so… #DatingIndustry #AICompanion
Grindr paid $250m for an HIV-prevention clinic, Tinder lets friend groups match, and Singapore's government built its own dating app. 12 dating industry stories: datingpro.com/blog/grindr-bu…
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Anthropic found 20+ dating apps where 3 in 4 matches were AI personas run on Claude. Also this fortnight: Match Group's CEO says Hinge could outearn Tinder. Seven stories, all checked at the source: datingpro.com/blog/75-bots-o…
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Nine checked stories this fortnight: Blackstone leaves Bumble with double its money, Grindr settles a UK data claim for £26m, and a 26-year-old dating site in New Zealand closes. datingpro.com/blog/grindr-pa…
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An Australian court just ruled on how eHarmony described its free tier. If you sell subscriptions anywhere, the wording next to your subscribe button is now a regulated surface, not copywriting. Thirteen stories from two weeks in dating: datingpro.com/blog/how-many-…
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Bumble just deleted the rule it was built on.
Twelve years of billboards, one growth decision.
Match Group also paid $100M for an app with no swiping at all. Both moves point the same way.
12 more from the fortnight → datingpro.com/blog/how-much-…
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Who is writing your users' opening lines?
Increasingly: ChatGPT. Bloomberg found singles on both sides of a chat handing the flirting to a bot — so two chatbots get along beautifully, and then the humans meet.
14 dating trends from July 2026 → datingpro.com/blog/how-much-…
The Hinge founder raised $18M for Overtone — an AI that makes "curated introductions," not swipes. Even Match Group is funding it. The industry's quiet bet: fewer, better matches. #DatingTrends2026 datingpro.com/blog/hinge-fou…
AI companions now pull 2x the engagement of dating apps. People are picking chatbots that never leave them on read. That's not a threat to dating platforms. It's a product line.
Full recap — datingpro.com/blog/swipeless…
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AI companion apps now out-use dating apps in the US ~2 to 1 (SensorTower). The competition for a dating platform isn't another swipe app anymore — it's a chatbot that never leaves you on read. What that means
if you build one 👇datingpro.com/blog/ai-compan…
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Bumble spent a year killing the swipe. This week it launched paid, in-person group dates where the venue is hidden until you pay.
The cheapest no-show filter ever invented is a credit card.
This week in dating, free digest: datingpro.com/blog/bumble-no…
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Tinder's growth strategy in 2026: rent a pickleball court and hope people show up in person. The line stretched out the door at Pickle Pop in Santa Monica. The flagship metric of a swiping company is now whether you stop swiping.
datingpro.com/blog/an-ai-now…
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Bumble just killed the swipe.
The gesture that built modern dating apps. Gone. Replaced with AI matchmaking.
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd: the swipe was always a workaround for limited data. The data isn't limited anymore.
datingpro.com/blog/bumble-ju…
#dating #AI #productdesign
Personal ads are back. Real ones. In real newspapers.
People are paying $90 for column inches because the $9 subscription stopped delivering.
The format predates Tinder by 300 years and just resurfaced.
datingpro.com/blog/elitesing…
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Match Group put $100M into Sniffies — a queer cruising app with 11 employees.
Match has 1,800.
Eleven engineers built something 1,800 couldn't compete with. The check is a tuition payment.
datingpro.com/blog/match-gro…
#datingapps #M&A #LGBTQ
A Portuguese dating app just raised €3M with one rule: it opens for 1 hour a night, matches you into an 8-minute video call, then shuts the door.
D7 retention 43%.
Tinder gets you addicted. Eight gets you dinner.
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OkCupid gave 3M user photos to an AI company. The FTC's punishment? A promise not to do it again. Zero dollars. Your dating profile photos are worth more than you think.
datingpro.com/blog/okcupid-g…
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Tinder's new AI scans your entire camera roll to pick your best photos before you choose what to share. The algorithm now knows your camera roll better than your ex did.
Full industry recap: datingpro.com/blog/digest-bu…
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Three Day Rule turned 15 years of matchmaker data into an AI app at $35/mo. They used to charge $5,900. Meanwhile Grindr is testing $499/mo. The pricing spectrum in dating tech is wild.
datingpro.com/blog/crush-wab…
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