5 Best LGBTQ+ Dating Sites and Apps Of 2025

If you’re looking for an all-purpose LGBTQ+ dating app that serves a wide range of sexual orientations, Taimi may be a good choice. With a base of 27 million users across 138 countries, users can likely find all types of relationship styles. We love that the app has more than a dozen different sexual orientation options that can be changed at any time. The platform’s emphasis on diversity and gender-fluidity is just one of the reasons Taimi is our top choice.

Users willing to pay for Taimi’s premium features can find three budget tiers: Bronze, Silver and Gold. Most requested premium features, such as trending search and profile boosting, can be accessed at the Silver tier. As the most budget-friendly app on this list, Taimi offers users a great value.

Who Might Like Taimi:

• All members of the LGBTQ+ community, including those identifying as gay, transgender, bisexual and more
• People who may be unsure about the type of relationship they’d like to have
• Anyone seeking a budget-friendly dating app

Our Experience with Taimi

Our testers appreciated Taimi for its smooth setup, friendly conversations, familiar design and effective paid features. However, glitches—particularly with regard to ignoring the tester’s chosen sexual orientation—were present.

“I had a mixed experience with Taimi. The paid version improves the experience, but its high bot activity is concerning.”— Ashley (declined to provide demographic information)

Through two weeks of testing with the paid and free versions of Taimi, general app use and setup were consistently praised. However, the abundance of messages overnight, especially when restricted to the free version of the app, proved burdensome.

Activity on the platform picked up once testers unlocked paid features, such as the ability to message those who had “liked” the tester’s profile. “I realized that since I now have access to view all of my likes, every time I message one of [the users who liked me], they always answer very quickly, and the conversation is always really great,” Ashley says of her experience with a paid Taimi subscription.

Her launched in 2015 with the hope of being the first dating app for lesbian, bisexual and queer people. Since 2023, the company says it’s made more than 300 million matches across 15 million users, making it a viable choice for women seeking women.

We love this app as an ad-free option built exclusively with women in mind. Pride Pins also offer users a creative way to express their interests, political leanings and love language. Likes, matches, messaging and basic community interactions are also all available for free.

Who Might Like Her:

• Queer, nonbinary and transwomen seeking other women
• Individuals looking for a long-term relationship
• People who may be open to making new friends in the queer, nonbinary or trans community

Our Experience with Her

Our tester says she appreciated the many ways users can customize their profiles on the Her app and found that many conversations appeared to be genuine, though, some messages and “like” counts may have been bot-generated. The tester didn’t like the high amount of repeat profiles that she encountered but did appreciate the friend feature that focuses on platonic connections.

“I had a decent experience with real people, but I had concerns about repeated profiles and potentially fake notifications.” — Ashley (declined to provide demographic information)

Testing of Her started slow over the first few days, but Ashley appreciated the ability to tailor profiles with aspects like zodiac signs and political affiliation. The high number of likes and requests, often hundreds overnight, seemed too good to be true, however. Ashley also noticed multiple instances where messages failed to send to users who had supposedly liked their profile.

It took about one week for Ashley to have a meaningful conversation on Her, and those productive chats grew more frequent once paid features were activated. “I woke up to three responses from previous matches, and I responded to them all,” wrote Ashley of Her’s premium experience. “The most interesting one for me today was a conversation with an EMT who is also a part-time bio/chem professor.”

Bindr is a relatively new addition to the LGBTQ+ dating app scene, making its debut in 2022 with the goal of creating a discrimination-free platform for bisexual individuals. We like that users don’t have to declare a sexual orientation. While hiding the orientation field is an option available on more established apps like Tinder, this app caters specifically to bisexuals and the broader LGBTQ+ community.

Its paid options are fairly standard, but the ability to purchase a lifetime, 100-year premium package is a great choice for those who enjoy bonding with Bindr’s growing community. That said, because the app reportedly only has 150,000 users as of 2024, matching may be difficult in some geographic regions.

Who Might Like Bindr:

• Individuals who are bisexual, pansexual or those with fluid sexual identities
• Those willing to try a new, emerging dating platform
• People who don’t want to be defined by a specific sexual orientation

Our Experience with Bindr

Our two testers had a generally negative experience using Bindr, with both citing a lack of meaningful interaction as a central concern. One tester felt the experience improved when paid features were introduced.

“It feels ineffective without premium and better suited for paid users.” — Hasnain (declined to provide demographic information)

Testers found Bindr fairly easy to set up and appreciated the unique addition of a general chat room for larger group interaction. However, the experience was dogged by glitches such as match results ignoring sexual orientations, and poor in-app performance. It was also found that the app does not notify users when likes are reciprocated.

Perhaps the biggest noted downside of using Bindr is the lack of meaningful conversation. Even with heavy messaging, it took nearly the entire two-week testing period to find one person willing to engage in genuine conversation. “My best conversation on the entire app was with the match who also shared with me that they felt there weren’t many actual people on Bindr looking for something real,” wrote Ashley in their testing journal.

We appreciate Hornet as an inclusive and fairly popular dating app tailored to men seeking men. Touted as a community-oriented safe space centered on innovation, Hornet has 100 million users since launching in 2011, according to the company.

One aspect of Hornet that we really like is the sheer number of communication options it offers right within the app. Video chat, audio messages and even livestreams can happen all within the same service. This goes beyond the message-only standard that many apps on this list have adopted. Not only does it cater to a specific sector of the LGBTQ+ community, but it gives that sector many different avenues to connect.

Who Might Like Hornet:

• Men seeking men
• Those who are more familiar with social media than dating sites
• Men in the LGBTQ+ community who are open to any relationship style

Our Experience with Hornet

Our platform tester appreciated Hornet’s unique yet familiar design but found that app usability suffered, especially while using its free plan.

“Hornet has interesting social platform features, but technical glitches and a weak free plan are drawbacks.” — Hasnain (declined to provide demographic information)

Hasnain found the Hornet experience to be unique, as its setup more closely resembles a social media feed than an ongoing scroll of swipes. Users can freely like and comment on the available feeds, though some feeds are restricted to premium members. Setting up a profile is free, but seeing who views or interacts with that profile requires a subscription.

Our tester experienced an abundance of technical glitches, such as being unable to like or unlike posts and messages failing to delete after pressing the delete button. It was also noticed that inappropriate messages could be sent freely.

On the other hand, paid features proved to be a meaningful addition. “Paid features play a crucial role in this app, as you can see who has liked and followed you. I got twice the number of activities done compared to free plans,” says Hasnain.

Tinder is among the most popular dating apps in the U.S. For people living in more rural areas where social connection may be limited, tapping into that base of 50 million active users may be necessary. If that’s the case, Tinder has quite a few LGBTQ+-friendly features similar to other LGBTQ+ apps, such as the ability to hide a user’s sexual orientation. There’s also a built-in video chat feature for those willing to take conversations to the next level.

Especially if you’re a millennial in search of a short-term fling, Tinder seems to be a smart choice for LGBTQ+ and heterosexual people alike. However, the app’s popularity may make bots and scammers more prevalent. If you’re skilled at checking for online dating red flags, Tinder may be a great service to consider when more niche apps fall through.

Who Might Like Tinder:

• All individuals, with tailored options for the LGBTQ+ community
• Individuals looking for hookups and casual encounters
• Those who want or need a large user population to find a partner

Our Experience with Tinder

Across four platform testers, Tinder was praised for its high volume of interactions, with some even finding its free features very usable. Despite that high volume, however, the low quality of individual conversations and occasional bot encounters remained a concern.

“I had a positive experience with real interactions. Tinder has effective features even in the free version.” — Ashley (declined to provide demographic information)

Tinder offered the most variable results on this ranking, with some testers engaging in meaningful conversations after just three days, while others didn’t see any meaningful activity at all for 10 days or more. Premium features undoubtedly helped increase profile visibility and engagement volume, but didn’t increase the amount of meaningful conversations. Those who struggled to interact on Tinder continued to do so, and those who enjoyed Tinder continued to perform well.

“People match, but they don’t message, making the app feel pointless,” wrote one tester. While another said Tinder’s free daily Super Like offered “one of the quickest and nicest conversations I’ve had on the app so far.”