Why Women Prefer Bumble Over Tinder

There are two popular dating apps as we all know, Bumble and Tinder. For both apps, you can set your preferences on age, men or women or both, distance in miles, what pictures to be shown on your profile and of course your bio. To match you on the apps is also the same: swiping left to dislike and right to like. Women seem to like Bumble more than they do Tinder because on Bumble, women must message first.

On Bumble, women must write first. This is a pro for women because they can decide who is worth their time and who they think would be someone to hold a decent conversation. Most importantly, this stops the men from sending inappropriate sexual messages as the first message of conversation. Even though women still may receive inappropriate sexual messages, it isn’t the first thing the men say to the women to start off the conversation. No one wants the first message to be from a man they matched with to be, “DTF” or “Hook up?” These messages are insulting to women and can even ruin the dating app experience if that’s not what you’re looking for. Even though that men can say these things at any time on Bumble after being matched, it does help that these are not the first message they see in a conversation.

Women also only have 24 hours to message their matches for that match to stay. This is a good and bad feature of the app. 24 hours to message is a good thing because then the men can assume that they will receive a message from the women within 24 hours.

Rather than sitting around waiting for weeks or never receiving a message at all. The 24 hours can also be bad because people get busy and may not realize they have a match until after 24 hours and they missed out on that particular guy. This also works on the opposite end of the match because the men only have 24 hours to respond as well or the match will also disappear. This I think helps for people to start and keep the conversation going.

This is not the case on Tinder. The match stays whether either one of the matches start a conversation, unless one of them unmatched the other.  By having the match stay could also be helpful because it is kind of interesting to go back and look at all of the matches you’ve made in the past and maybe even start up a conversation that way.

Bumble also seems more of a dating app for older, college-aged, and for people who may already have a plan. While Tinder is for more of a high school feel. The people on Tinder seem to only want hook ups, while on Bumble, you seem to find men and women who would want more of a relationship or something simple that could possibly turn into something serious as time progresses.

Women prefer Bumble because they control matches and conversations more than they do on Tinder, because they have the safety net of messaging first.