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Here is the quick list of my top 5 dating sites in Germany. I’ll go into more detail in my reviews below.

1. eDarling.de (Targeted towards age 35+)

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When I first traveled to Germany way back in 2000, online dating really didn’t exist. There were a few sites, but none of them had enough members to make it worthwhile.

Since that time, dating via either your PC or smartphone has exploded in popularity. When I was in Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Ulm, and Heidelberg, I would regularly login to these sites and apps to find thousands of users online at any given time.

While you can find good sites in pretty much any niche, the sites and apps I’ll discuss below are geared towards mainstream daters.

Oh, and a couple more things before I get into the reviews…a couple of these sites aren’t accessible outside of Germany. So, if you try to sign up, you will be blocked because of your foreign IP address. For best results, fly to Germany first and then sign up.

Also, although I won’t discuss Tinder in this post, it is worth downloading it to your phone even though I don’t recommend it for finding a long term relationship. You can definitely find some women (and men) on there interested in a real relationship, but in my experience, it is more geared towards 20 and 30-somethings who want a short-term fling.

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Without further ado, here is my detailed analysis of the best dating sites in Germany.

EDarling.de is the best online dating site in Germany if you are 35+ years old (if you are in your 20s or early 30s, continue on to the #2 site below). It is widely considered the most important dating website across all of Europe.

eDarling is another personality-test driven dating website for residents of Germany. eDarling is owned and operated by the same people behind the US website eHarmony. Therefore, a lot of the features you would see on eHarmony, you would also get on eDarling.

A site with more women than men, there is no specific type of single person for the site as people of all ages are on there surfing for dates, although a majority of the members are over 35, as I mentioned before.

eDarling is clean and professional, runs smoothly, has over 2 million members and employs a great matching system based on a lengthy, detailed personality test. The only drawback is that you’ll have to pay for a premium membership to do much of anything on the site.

Bottom-line, if you’re serious about finding a quality match in Germany, and you’re willing to pay, eDarling is a must-try site.

Sign up Process

To start, select your gender and match gender, email and password. Next, complete eDarling’s personality test, which takes 30-40 minutes to complete and includes around 200 questions about your feelings, values, interests, passions and basic information. Once you’re done with the test, upload a photo if you like. Once eDarling is finished calculating your matches, you are free to browse around.

There remains quite a lot to fill out in your profile, however, including 12 sections to write about yourself (What my partner should know about me, etc.) and a section to select what habits and traits you would like and dislike in a partner, choosing 10 for each from a long list (e.g. “My partner should be gentle and friendly” and “My partner should not see themselves as a permanently pitiable victim.”).

How to Locate Potential Matches

eDarling takes a unique approach here, as there are no standard search or browse features. Rather, eDarling uses complex computer algorithms to compare your test results with those of others on the site, to recommend matches to you daily.

eDarling limits you to 7 new matches a day, and as a free member, you can view almost everything in the profiles of your matches, including their personality reports. Unfortunately, you can’t see their photos.

As a premium member, you’ll get to see 20 new profiles a day as part of the “What If…” feature.

How to Communicate with Other Members

Free members can add other profiles to their favorites and send Smiles and 5 Questions, which are chosen from 53 options. Example questions include:

• “What do you want to happen in the next decade?”
• “The dance floor is empty and your favorite song is played. What do you do?”
• “How much personal space is important to you in a relationship?”

Premium members can also send basic text messages to each other.

Unique Site Features

eDarling’s personality test is truly top-of-the-line. It was developed by expert psychologists to measure 29 aspects of your personality, and upon completion of the test, eDarling provides you with an in-depth Personality Dimension Analysis. This analysis compares your levels of Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Openness, Extraversion, Neuroticism to the average of other members.

I really enjoyed being able to read the personality reports of my matches. These reports, combined with their basic information and what they wrote about themselves in the available text boxes, give you a highly detailed look into what these people are like.

Even as a free member, without any photos to look at, I was amazed at how well I felt I knew some of these people, just from reading through their profiles.

What is Included in Each Membership Level

• Free – Take the personality test, create a profile, upload photos
• Premium – See all photos, unlimited communication, view profile visitors, use the mobile app
• Premium PLUS – Receive 20 extra profile matches in the What If feature, verify your identity, see detailed personality profiles, read message notifications

Like I mentioned in the opening, if you have ever used eHarmony, the site is very similar except it’s in Germany. The site is really for those who are more serious about finding someone and not for a simple hookup.

The personality questionnaire is time consuming and can be a pain, but once you finish it, you feel better about the matches they give you, and it’s interesting to see what other members answered in comparison to yours.

If you’re in Germany or into German men or women, it’s definitely worth the investment, provided you want to find the future love of your life.

LoveScout Germany

LoveScout24 is the second best online dating site in Germany. The site was started in 1997 under the name People United.

LoveScout24 is available to users in Germany, Spain, Holland, Italy, France, Switzerland and Austria, with around 1 million active members in Germany alone. This site is available in the native language in each of these countries, but is not available in English.

What’s more, the site uses advanced security features to check your IP address location and keep you from registering if you’re not in one of their supported countries. LoveScout24 also seems to repel Google Translator for some reason, which makes it difficult to navigate.

If you live outside of Europe, and/or only speak English, this site will be a hassle. But if you are located in one LoveScout24’s supported European countries, and you speak the language, this site is worth checking out, as it has solid features and thousands of quality profiles to look through.

Sign up Process

Sign up is quicker than it seems. Enter your gender and the gender you’re looking for in a match, your birthday, username, password and email address to begin. From here you’ll be prompted a number of questions about yourself and your ideal match.

There are around 20 questions, which you can answer now, or later if you like. To start browsing profiles, simply click on the tab for searches and start browsing.

How to Locate Potential Matches

LoveScout24’s search function includes Basic and Advanced searches. Basic searches include 5 options:

1. Born on the same day as me
2. It’s their birthday
3. Perfect matches
4. Reverse matches
5. Mutual matches

For Advanced searches, you have numerous filters to choose from when creating your search, to ensure that you find that perfect match. Searches can be saved for convenient later use as well.

You can look through profiles who are looking for matches that fit your own criteria. You can also give the Shuffle feature a spin. This is basically a Tinder-like feature, in which you’re shown random profiles to like or dislike, and both of you are notified when there’s a mutual match.

How to Communicate with Other Members

To open communication with a potential match, you’ll first have to upgrade to premium. Then you can start things off with a “smile”.

From there, you can move on to actual messages, which unfortunately are text only. You can also start live chats with other online members, also text only. Users can also filter who they receive messages from, and block up to 100 members.

Unique Site Features

Two features stood out to me on LoveScout24. First, there is the once-a-week email you’ll receive, containing a statistic summary of your profile’s activity, including how many profile visits you received, how many messages were sent and received, etc.

If you’re a busy online dater, this will be helpful in keeping track of all your activities.

Second is the #LoveYourImperfections portion of the sign-up process, where you select two of your imperfections to stand proudly behind. Personally, I am a Night Owl, and I love to eat! This was a small feature, but refreshing to see because so much of online dating seems to revolve around trying to impress and seem as perfect as possible to attract the ideal mate.

What is Included in Each Membership Level

• Free – Create a profile, upload a photo, search/browse/Watch profiles, receive messages, send messages to Connect members, use Date Roulette limited
• Premium – Unrestricted use of Date Roulette, see who has visited or favorited you, start live chats and message with anyone
• Premium Plus – Premium benefits plus advanced profile placement in search results, receive proposals from Partner.de members
• Connect – Receive messages from free users
• Select – Select who you can receive messages from

Parship.de is a good third choice if you’ve run out of options at the site above.

Parship.de is the German version of Parship, a dating website that was originally launched in Germany in 2001 and went international in 2002. Parship is now available in many European countries (England, France, Holland, Italy, Spain and Sweden), and Mexico.

Parship is a serious dating website, built around a strong matching system. Signing up requires a lengthy personality test, and your matches are based on your test results.

While some may be turned off by the time commitment this test requires, I personally love tests like these. If you live in Germany, and you’re seriously looking for a partner, take a look at Parship.

Sign up Process

Start with your gender, your ideal match gender, email and password. After this, it’s time for the PARSHIP Principle, a scientific questionnaire that will take you 20-60 minutes to complete, depending on how well you know yourself and how quick you normally are with personality tests.

This test is mostly made up of multiple-choice questions, but also includes more abstract sections like spontaneously choosing your preference between two abstract images, or picking a title for a dream-image. This test serves as a great barrier-to-entry, weeding out people who aren’t serious about dating. And shockingly you are only done with 35% of your profile after completing the test!

How to Locate Potential Matches

Unlike most other dating sites out there, Parship doesn’t have a straightforward search feature. While you can see who is online, or who last logged-in, and you can filter your matches by some basic information, the main focus is on Parship’s partner recommendations.

Parship compares your test results with other matches, and shows you a compatibility score for each profile. This score is summarized by “Matching Points”, of which my highest match had 113.

When browsing through matches, you’ll quickly notice that you can only see blurry photos to begin with. Users either have to explicitly give others’ access to their photos or upgrade to premium to see photos made public. You also don’t see names to begin with, just their occupation (e.g. Nurse, Marketing Executive, etc.), though you can take notes or give profiles nicknames to help you differentiate them.

How to Communicate with Other Members

To contact other members, you’ll first have to complete at least 50% of your profile. Once you’ve done that, you can add them to your favorites, release your photos to them, or send a compliment (small thumbs up button), a Smile, an “icebreaker” message (mini multiple choice questionnaire), or a text message.

Beyond these basics, you’ll communicate a lot to every profile that visits you without saying a word, simply because Parship’s profile compatibility reports are so detailed.

Unique Site Features

While matching systems can be found on many different dating websites, Parship’s shines as especially impressive. 40 years of research are behind their detailed compatibility test, developed by a Hamburg University Psychology professor. Premium members gain access to their full test results, a whopping 40-page psychological evaluation.

But even as a free member, I was pleasantly surprised how much information is available to you. I read through my test results and learned quite a bit about myself, how I work in relationship, and what kind of partner would fit me well. I also found the comparisons between my results and those of other profiles helpful, detailed and illuminating.

Parship is so confident in this matching system that they offer a Contact Guarantee: If you have not successfully made contact with another member within 6 months of signing up for a premium membership, you’ll be given another 6-month membership for free.

The Parship app is available on both Apple and Android platforms, making it accessible to just about everyone. The most powerful and unique feature of the app is the Parship test, which is proprietary and specific to this app. By working with this unique testing system, Parship can bring something new to the table that other sites can’t.

What is Included in Each Membership Level

• Standard – Create profile, view summary of personality report, reply to messages from premium members, see profiles
• Premium Lite – View released photos, unlimited communication
• Premium Classic – Also includes the Contact Guarantee
• Premium Comfort – Same as Classic except a longer, cheaper subscription

Finya

Finya is a dating site for residents of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The site launched in 2001, has over 1 million members, and is completely free to use. This can have both positive and negative effects on your experience of this site.

The positives are obvious: free is always in the budget! Yet, because it’s free, Finya tends to attract many fake and scammy profiles, and Finya keeps itself free by selling advertising space on the site, which many other users have reported as overly intrusive.

I saw hardly any ads in my time on the site, however. Overall, Finya is a great site with an inviting design, solid features, and a huge pool of users to search through. If you’re on a tight budget and looking for some German love, make sure you give this site a try.

Sign up Process

Signing up is just two steps. First, enter your gender, preferred match gender, email, username, birthday and location. Second, check your email for a verification link. And you’re done.

When you’re ready, you can finish filling out your profile by sharing your education, occupation, appearance, what you like and don’t like, and your favorite brands. You can also define who you are looking for, upload photos, and answer up to 100 questions, in 12 categories, including Love and Relationships, Lifestyle, and Character.

How to Locate Potential Matches

When searching for matches, you have many filter options. There are all the basic filters you’d expect to see (age, location, photos, etc.) and a few unique options, such as whether they’re willing to relocate or their photo rating score.

Another option is the Gallery feature, a Tinder-like feature which shows you photos of profiles to like or pass on, and you are notified when there is a mutual match. You can see all the profiles you have liked, and all those who have liked you back, in the Matching tab.

You can also find profiles in the Voting section, detailed below.

How to Communicate with Other Members

Communication features are basic but solid. You can add profiles to your favorites, start instant chats with users that are online, and send messages, which are text only. Unfortunately, there is no audio or video support for messages or chat.

Unique Site Features

In the Voting section, you are shown two profile photos side-by-side, and you choose who you find more attractive. You can filter the profiles by age, and your selections are kept anonymous.

Finya will calculate how attractive each profile is on a scale of 1-10, based on your and other users’ selections when using this feature. Note that you need to have a profile photo uploaded for your selections to be registered.

A small feature I liked was the use of dots and dashes to indicate the activity levels of users:

• 1 dash means the user is seldom active on Finya
• 2 means regularly active
• 3 means they are frequently active
• A bright green dot indicates they are online right now
• A faded green dot means they’ve been online in the last 24 hours.

What is Included in Each Membership Level

• Standard – Finya is truly completely free.

OKCupid is known for relying heavily on user-provided data to find better matches for its diverse user base. This free service lets you answer as many or as few questions as you prefer, and it uses your responses to calculate good potential partners.

Although OKCupid targets a massive international crowd, some German users have complained about the low quality. For instance, although having around 30 million possible matches to choose from seems great, the service’s free nature means you’ll probably have to filter through scams to find your next dream date or casual fling.

I recommend you try OKCupid as a last resort if you have run out of options at the sites above (I’ve run into some crazy people on OKCupid).

Sign-Up Process

OKCupid lets users register via Facebook or create completely independent profiles. Everyone chooses a unique username and password, and at the start, you’ll be given a chance to write your own witty description and answer five basic personality questions. From there, all you have to do is “Like” three profiles so that the site knows what you’re looking for.

Signing up doesn’t take long unless you really want to go all out. You can add photos, answer numerous questions and share in-depth personal stats or simply follow the default prompts to get to meeting people quicker.

How to Locate Potential Matches

OKCupid has a pretty simple default interface that lets you browse through other users easily by photo, username, locations and age. Each profile listing also shows percentages. These numbers represent how well the site’s algorithm thinks you match or clash depending on the answers you’ve provided to the questions.

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In addition to checking out how others described themselves, you can get an idea of what sort of issues matter to them by browsing their profiles in detail. After finding someone you fancy or dislike, you can use the Quickmatch function to indicate how you feel. If two people like each other, the site lets them know.

How to Communicate with Other Members

OKCupid makes it easy to communicate with someone by liking them, and those with Premium memberships can view their incoming likes. Or send a message using the free text feature. Bear in mind that people can see who viewed their profiles, so your subtle browsing is likely to attract notice.

Unique Site Features
In addition to answering questions about your habits, preferences and sexuality, you can automatically filter out people who don’t fit the bill. For each question you answer, simply pick the responses you’d find acceptable from a potential partner.

Although there are thousands of available questions, many users report that answering as many as possible helps them find better matches. These answers also let the site get a better feel for your personality. For an interesting look behind the scenes of the OKCupid landscape, you can check out the site’s development blog to discover more.

Membership Fees and What is Included in Each Membership Level

• Free – Create a profile, browse, Like, and message other users
• A-List – Advanced search options, invisible browsing, message filtering, extra message storage, ad-free browsing, username changes, see who has liked you, and see when someone has read your message
• Incognito Mode – Lets you Like and visit profiles invisibly, hides your profile from searches.
• Profile Boosts – Appear more often in searches and at the top of the list in Quickmatch.

As I mention in my online dating e-book, with all of the dating sites above, just like the real world, there will be women or men who you will not click with or who don’t respond to your messages (or just disappear). There will be women or men who might only be interested in helping you to part with your money. That is life. Just keep sending out messages and reach out until you find the person you are looking for and get success.

As is typical with online dating, expect a response rate of around 1-10%. This response rate will depend largely on the quality of your photos and how good your profile is. (response rate = people who will respond back to you to whom you sent an introduction message).

So there you have it. The best dating sites and apps in Germany.

Viel Glück! (Good luck in German)

Further Reading

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Does online dating even exist in Germany? Will you have any luck on the free dating sites in Germany? Is it possible you find love (or a hookup) on Tinder in Germany? This post gives you an overview of the most popular dating sites in Germany and whether they are actually useful for English speaking foreigners living in Germany.

If you have been living in Germany for a while, dating a German must have crossed your mind, right? But what is the best way to meet Germans if you don’t speak their language properly?

While researching for this article, I came across several articles that recommend dating sites in Germany that are targeted to German speakers – pretty much making them useless for anyone who may not speak any German yet.

Now you do not need to speak like a native to date a German ;), but you need some German language skills to navigate the platforms and understand the complicated terms and conditions.

Not only that, I was horrified to see that most of these highly recommended dating sites in Germany have really poor customer ratings.

In this post, I will introduce some German dating sites in English as well as some popular dating apps in Germany (that are also expat-friendly).

I will also clearly disclose their current Trustpilot customer ratings and cancellation policies, so you can make a fully informed decision to sign up with these dating sites in Germany or stay away from them. 🙂

Now the obligatory legal stuff first!

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Is Online dating in Germany really a thing?

Yes, online dating is actually quite big in Germany. A lot of Germans; young, middle-aged or mature use online dating sites and apps to meet new romantic partners.

Nowadays it is not considered a taboo if you openly declare that you met your partner on an online dating site. If someone judges you or your partner for meeting through an online dating site, then you don’t want to hang out with that laggardly shitbag anyway. 😉

How popular are online dating sites in Germany?

According to data shared by Statista, German online dating sites are expected to have 7.5m users by 2024.

As opposed to the common misconception, online dating is not just older people. Many young people use online dating services in Germany. In 2020, 27.5% of German online dating users are between 25-34 years old. About 25% of users are between 35- 45 years old.

When it comes to gender distribution, only 31% of total online dating platforms users are female.

What should you know before signing up on a German online dating site

Here are a few important things to be aware of before you sign up with a German online dating site.

Tricky contracts and cancellation policies

German contracts are trappy by design. Most pissed off users complain about service contracts that are impossible to get out of. This is not just the problem with the dating sites in Germany, but generally any type of German contract.

Typically, German contracts have an automatic renewal and a notice period of three months.

It can vary from brand to brand, so PLEASE check this in the cancellation policy. You will also have to notify in writing via email or snail mail. Merely clicking a ‘delete account’ button in your user profile may not be considered ‘contract cancellation’.

Another important detail – most dating sites in Germany give you a 14 days cancellation period.

However, if you make any contact with even one member within this time period, you have already used their service. It does not matter whether this contact resulted in a relationship or not.

If you decide within the 14-day period that this isn’t the right platform for you, you will still get charged the full fee.

According to the T&Cs of some dating sites in Germany, interaction with members is considered as ‘service already offered’.

Fake or inactive profiles problem

Fake profiles are unfortunately common on many dating sites in Germany. But then, this is a known issue with many online dating sites and apps worldwide. So bear this in mind that while some users might be genuine, some might be fake profiles.

Disproportionate gender distribution

As I quoted above, Statista data shows that male users make the majority of members on dating sites in Germany. Female users make up only around 30% of the total users of online dating sites in Germany.

In other words…

Still, it cannot hurt to try your luck, right? Let’s take a look at which dating sites in Germany might be worth your time, money and effort.

Popular Online Dating Sites in Germany

Parship

Parship is one of the most popular dating sites in Germany. It has been around since 2001 and claims to have a success rate of 40% for its users.

When you sign up for Parship, they ask you to answer 80 questions to create your profile. Their matchmaking algorithm uses this comprehensive personal profile and sends you suggestions based on values, attitudes and interests relevant to you.

Language: German only

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 1.8 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. Three months cancellation notice.

Membership cost: Their premium subscriptions start at €54.90 per month for a 12-month contract. Parship’s freemium version has a limit on how many messages you can send. But it cannot hurt to try, right?

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You can sign up here to see how it works out for you.

ElitePartner

ElitePartner’s USP is its exclusive target audience that consists mainly of academics, tech aficionado, high skilled career folks. So the average user age on ElitePartner is slightly higher when compared to your average dating apps herd.

But then, four million people in Germany use ElitePartner, so this niche obviously has a high demand.

The search feature on ElitePartner offers many filtering options and the suggested matches are accurate. They also have a mobile app, which matches you with people near you.

Language: German only

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 1.2 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. Three months cancellation notice.

Membership cost: Considering they cater to a very specific target audience their membership costs €52,90 per month for a 12 month contract.

You can sign up hereto try your luck on ElitePartner.

eDarling

eDarling target group is similar to ElitePartner – singles in Germany with a high level of education and academic experience. The platform is available in all of Europe with more than 13 million members.

Unlike the typical landscape of online dating in Germany, eDarling claims to have a pretty even gender distribution of 52% female users and 48% males.

When you register with eDarling, you’re presented with a comprehensive questionnaire of more than 250 questions to help their matching algorithm to find the best quality matches for you.

Language: German only

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 1.6 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. Three months cancellation notice.

Membership cost: An eDarling subscription costs €24,90 per month for a 12-month contract.

Flirt.com

Flirt.com is not exactly a German online dating site, and for this reason, it has some advantages for anyone who wants to date in Germany as a foreigner.

Firstly, it is one of the very few dating sites in Germany in English.

Second, with most online dating sites in Germany, subscriptions may be too much of a financial commitment considering the high monthly costs.

Flirt.com, on the other hand, offers short-term subscriptions which are easy to cancel. You can upgrade to premium for a week just to see if paid membership is worth it in the long run.

Pretty practical, eh?

If pricey upfront payments have been a big concern for you so far, then don’t worry. Flirt.com does not demand payment upon registration. You can sign up and create your profile free-of-charge and use some of its freemium features that include interacting with members.

At present, Flirt.com has members from several English-speaking countries, as well as Europe and Asia – making it quite a diverse online dating app for expats living in Germany.

Language: English/ Multilingual

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 1.7 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. At least three days (72 hours) cancellation notice

Membership cost:
1 Month – 28.80 USD / Month
3 Months – 16.20 USD / Month

Are you ready to date in Germany? Sign up with Flirt.com — it’s free. 🙂

So what’s the verdict?

Based on these Trustpilot reviews alone, the traditional matchmaking dating sites in Germany seem like an absolute nightmare. Even the majority of German reviews consistently complain about the entrapping usage terms and unfair cancellation policies.

In this sense, an international dating site such as Flirt.com might be much more user-friendly. They openly promote LGBT, multilingual and multicultural dating on their platform.

Even though Flirt.com doesn’t have better reviews than the rest, your financial risk is much lower.

The biggest customer complaint is about the lack of active profiles or potential fake profiles. But at least they give the possibility to test out the premium features for much shorter durations at reasonable costs.

Popular Dating Apps in Germany

First, for data lovers like me, here is this cool graphic showing the most popular dating apps in European countries.

Source: BBC

Tinder

Tinder needs no intro!

Many people believe that Tinder is merely a hookup app, which it is. But it is also responsible for a number of marriages and long-term relationships.

All Tinder did was that it gamified the traditional method of meeting new people online. At the end of 2020 Tinder has 6.6 million subscribers globally.

But how popular is Tinder in Germany?

As of 2020, Germany was the second-largest iOS market for Tinder. While I could not find the exact number of Tinder users in Germany, I’m sure there are more than enough Tinder users in Germany for you to meet your match.

Language: English/ Multilingual

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 1.4 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. Cancel anytime before the next billing date

Membership cost (for under 30-year-old):
Tinder Gold – $14.99/ Month
Tinder Plus – $4.99/ Month

LOVOO

If supporting local is your thing, then LOVOO is your go-to online dating app in Germany. Based in Berlin and Dresden, LOVOO is 100% made in Germany.

This popular dating app is widely used across Germany and the DACH area to meet new people or even just engage in German chat. Their location search is called “live radar” that shows other users in your proximity. Just like Tinder, you match by swiping left or right on user profiles, however, on LOVOO you can contact users without having to match first.

LOVOO claims to make over 350m matches worldwide per year. Maybe this is where you will meet your dream mate after all?

Language: German/ English/ Multilingual

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 1.8 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. Cancel at least 24 hours before the next billing date

Membership cost (for under 30-year-old):
1 Month – 9.99 USD / Month
6 Months – 5.67 USD / Month

Badoo

Badoo is another ‘Made in the EU’ dating app. It uses a matching system quite similar to Tinder. A user can send a matching request to the profiles that interest them: if the other party accepts your request, both users can start messaging.

According to the BBC graph above, Badoo is quite popular in Eastern and South European countries. However, it supports multiple countries and languages all across Europe.

Language: German/ English/ Multilingual

Trustpilot Rating (Jan 2021): 3.4 out of 5

Cancellation policy: Automatic renewal. Cancel at least 24 hours before the next billing date

Membership cost (for under 30-year-old):
1 Month – 12.99 USD / Month
6 Months – 8.00 USD / Month

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So what’s the verdict?

As you can see, Badoo is the only online dating service with an average user rating on Trustpilot. You will also face a much lower financial risk with any dating app in Germany than signing up with a German dating site. Maybe you will have a much better experience with a dating app after all?

Just in case you were curious about how Germans meet people old school style…

Where do Germans meet romantic partners in real life?

Anywhere really? University, library, workplaces, cafes, nightclubs, Vereins, through common friends, in the neighbourhood, while walking their dog (or cat), gym etc.

Whether online or IRL, German relationships are built upon a solid foundation. They often evolve from some sort of friendship.

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In fact, most romances in Germany start in the friend zone. Only in Germany, a friend zone isn’t some dreaded black hole where all the romance goes to die. 😉

If you are feeling clueless about your dating life in Germany, then read my post where I take a deep dive into the typical German dating culture.

Also related: Intercultural Dating in Germany

So have you ever used any dating apps or dating sites in Germany? What was your experience? I would love to hear from you. Please share your experiences in the comments below.

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