--- title: Tinder Dating App Desktop Version description: In an surprising twist, dating app Tinder will be debuting a desktop version of their popular swipe dating service. canonical: https://time.com/4715664/tinder-desktop-version-dating-app/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-28T21:54:47.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:20.216Z og:title: Tinder Is Going Old School With a Desktop Version of Its App og:description: No more swiping og:url: https://time.com/4715664/tinder-desktop-version-dating-app/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tinder Is Going Old School With a Desktop Version of Its App twitter:description: No more swiping twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Swiping Pioneer Tinder Goes Old School With a Desktop Version > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=9171aa64-2bbc-401f-b7ec-aed2048c95f0&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 28, 2017 9:54 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 28, 2017 9:54 PM UTC In what might be a burst of nostalgic emotion, an [appeal to a more mature demographic](http://time.com/3578025/apps-love-relationships-dating/) or, perhaps, to help its customers use it more circumspectly at work, [Tinder](http://time.com/4417103/tinder-social-dating-apps/) announced that it will be debuting a desktop version of [its popular “swipe” dating app](http://time.com/4439084/tinder-online-dating-self-esteem/). In a demo video released on their [website](http://blog.gotinder.com/introducing-tinder-online/) on Tuesday, Tinder demonstrated how the desktop version will work; instead of swiping on potential candidates, users will use their mouse to drag candidates to the left or the right to select them. And unlike the phone app version, chats will be available on the side so you can chat and pseudo-swipe at the same time because more screen space is beautiful, beautiful thing. The blog post also detailed that the desktop version will save on storage space (a problem more prone to phone usage) and is currently being tested in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, and Sweden. The irony of creating a desktop version of an app wasn’t lost on Tinder, which they poked some sly fun at with a video campaign that they posted on their Twitter account. > [](https://twitter.com/Tinder/status/846741475173969920) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4715664/tinder-desktop-version-dating-app/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4715664/tinder-desktop-version-dating-app/"},"headline":"Swiping Pioneer Tinder Goes Old School With a Desktop Version","datePublished":"2017-03-28T21:54:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:20.216Z","description":"No more swiping","url":"https://time.com/4715664/tinder-desktop-version-dating-app/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","society","Dating","Technology","Tinder","Business topic","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4715664/tinder-desktop-version-dating-app/","name":"Swiping Pioneer Tinder Goes Old School With a Desktop Version"}}]}] ```