--- --- # This Is the 'Most Popular' Dating App in the World  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 11, 2016 7:25 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 11, 2016 7:25 PM UTC A new collection of data may provide some new insight for people who think they have been looking for love in all the wrong places. [Badoo](http://time.com/2894727/hot-or-not-internet/), a London-based free dating app founded in 2006 by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev, slightly outpaces its nearly four-year-old competitor [Tinder](http://time.com/tag/tinder/) in certain countries. Badoo was the most downloaded app in 21 countries, while Tinder was the most downloaded app in 18 countries, according to a graph of “most downloaded dating apps in 50 countries” in 2015 within the BBC News feature [“The Dating Game”,](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-2e3f0042-75f6-4bd1-b4fe-9056540c65f8) which is based on data from the app analytics company App Annie. As the BBC News article [sums up](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-2e3f0042-75f6-4bd1-b4fe-9056540c65f8) the results: “Tinder dominates northern countries; Badoo is top in the east and south.” Breakouts of the most popular app by country can be found on the [BBC News website](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-2e3f0042-75f6-4bd1-b4fe-9056540c65f8). The Most Popular, Most Downloaded Dating App ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4217902/tinder-dating-app-badoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4217902/tinder-dating-app-badoo/"},"headline":"This Is the 'Most Popular' Dating App in the World","datePublished":"2016-02-11T19:25:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:59.807Z","description":"In certain parts of the globe, this app is more popular than Tinder","url":"https://time.com/4217902/tinder-dating-app-badoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"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/4217902/tinder-dating-app-badoo/","name":"This Is the 'Most Popular' Dating App in the World"}}]}] ```