Gay App List
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The first directory of its kind
Every gay app in the world, mapped.
34 apps, plotted where the company behind them is based. Tap a dot to see what comes from there. Swipe the map sideways.
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15 places on the map. Nothing is ranked — everything is listed alphabetically.
Every app, A–Z
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ROMEO
Europe’s grid, with longer profiles.
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Beijing, China
Blued
Asia’s giant, built around live streaming.
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Finka
China’s swipe-based alternative to Blued.
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Boston, United States
FOLX Health
Queer and trans healthcare without the explaining.
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Denver, United States
Plume
Gender-affirming care by telehealth.
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Translr
A dating app aimed squarely at trans people.
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Las Vegas, United States
Splashd
A newer grid trying to fix the old ones.
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London, United Kingdom
Feeld
For couples, throuples and the non-monogamous.
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HER
The app queer women actually stayed on.
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QLIST
A world map of queer-friendly places.
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Voda
Mental wellbeing, built for LGBTQIA+ people.
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Wapa
The queer-women half of the same family.
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Wapo
A grid with a queer venue map built in.
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New York, United States
Jack’d
The most racially diverse of the big grids.
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Lex
Personal ads. Text only. No photo grid.
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SCRUFF
The grown-up grid, with serious travel tools.
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Taimi
Aiming at the whole LGBTQ+ spectrum at once.
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Paris, France
Bearwww
The European bear app.
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misterb&b
Gay-friendly places to stay, worldwide.
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Weere
misterb&b’s social side: friends, plans, activities.
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Prague, Czechia
Surge
Swiping, for gay men.
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Zoe
Dating and friendship for queer women.
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San Francisco, United States
Hornet
A gay social network that happens to have a grid.
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Stockholm, Sweden
ComeOut
A social network, not a grid.
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Tokyo, Japan
9monsters
Japan’s own gay app, and nothing like the Western ones.
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United States
Everywhere Is Queer
A world map of queer-owned businesses.
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GROWLr
Bears, and only bears.
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Refuge Restrooms
Safe and gender-neutral bathrooms, mapped.
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The Gay Agenda
What is actually on, near you.
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yoBlow
Oral first, with the lane stated up front.
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yoBreeder
Built around the preference the big grids bury.
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West Hollywood, United States
Grindr
The default gay app, for better and for worse.
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TrevorSpace
A moderated community for LGBTQ+ people 13–24.
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Origin not established
Hanky
Invite-only, and deliberately small.
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Gay App List is independent. Nobody pays to be listed and nothing is ranked. Location means where the company behind an app is based, as best we can establish — tell us if we have one wrong.
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