Tinder launched in 2012 within startup incubator Hatch Labs as a joint venture between IAC and the mobile app development firm Xtreme Labs. By 2014, Tinder was registering about one billion swipes per day.

When was Tinder popularized?

With the launch of Tinder in 2012, iPhone-owning people of all sexualities could start looking for love, or sex, or casual dating, and it quickly became the most popular dating app on the market.

What came first bumble or Tinder?

Bumble got its start in late 2014 after Wolfe Herd left Tinder, where she was a cofounder. Wolfe Herd was a cofounder at Tinder, where she came up with the name of the app and spearheaded its push on college campuses, according to a 2015 profile by Business Insiders Alyson Shontell.