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[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). ```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. 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