These Chinese dating apps have become an unexpected necessity during the coronavirus pandemic
- Foreign players like Tinder and Bumble are not nearly as popular in China and have fallen far behind local competitors
- The nine largest dating apps by China iOS app store ranking are Yidui, Tantan, Momo, Soul, Yimu, Zhenai, Hezi, Blued and Rela
Dating apps in China have become an unexpected necessity in 2020. In the world’s most populous country, people still want to meet, but the coronavirus pandemic has made this no easy task.
More than 622 million people used dating apps in China last year, and the market is set to hit US$290 million in revenues by 2024, according to market research site Statista.com.
As Chinese dating apps continue to become more and more mainstream, they have adopted features familiar to anyone who has turned online to find a date: Swiping, chat boxes, and location-based discovery, to name a few.
However, Chinese dating apps have also added elements that are not so common, such as matchmaker-mediated chats, voice message speed dating, and more. The nine largest dating apps in China in 2020 by China iOS app store rank, as of April 27, 2020 were Yidui, Tantan, Momo, Soul, Yimu, Zhenai, Hezi, Blued and Rela.
Foreign players like Tinder and Bumble are not nearly as popular in the country and have fallen far behind local competitors.
Yidui
