Download Hinge (i OS, Android) Grindr's mission was to help gay guys meet up, quickly, wherever they were.

It quickly became a smash hit, and recently sold a majority stake to a Chinese gaming company.

That's a big difference, and perhaps indicates that people take out their dating woes on the apps they use.

But regardless, there were stark differences between popular apps like Tinder, Ok Cupid, Bumble, and Hinge.

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Here is America's ranking of 11 popular dating apps, as measured by Applause: Hinge's innovation was that it only matched you with your extended social network — friends of friends.

The app presents you with around a dozen matches a day for you to swipe yes/no on.

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We have previously reviewed the major dating apps from both a woman's and man's perspective, but we were surprised which apps did the best in an analysis of user reviews.