Serious Dating Dating Sites
22 active serious dating platforms, ranked by our editorial rating.
Hinge
“Designed to be deleted” - prompts over swipes
Pairs
Japan’s leading marriage-minded dating app
eharmony
The compatibility-quiz marriage machine
Match.com
The original 1995 dating site, still serious about it
Coffee Meets Bagel
A few curated “bagels” a day instead of endless swiping
Meetic
Europe’s Match.com, dominant in France
Parship
Germany’s scientific matchmaking standard
Shaadi.com
The world’s biggest matrimonial service
EliteSingles
Personality-tested dating for professionals
BharatMatrimony
Shaadi’s great rival, strong in South India
Omiai
Japan’s marriage-first app, named after the formal matchmaking tradition
Breeze
Skip the chat - the app books you a date
eDarling
European personality-based matchmaking
Jeevansathi
One of India’s big three matrimony portals
ParPerfeito
Brazil’s longest-running dating site
Aisle
High-intent dating for Indians, "fast-tracked to marriage-minded"
Once
One curated match a day - slow dating
TrulyMadly
India’s homegrown dating app for serious singles
Baihe
China’s real-name marriage-matching giant
Jiayuan
The "Century Love" pioneer of Chinese online dating
Tawkify
Human matchmakers, app-era pricing
Sitch
An AI matchmaker that sets up your dates
No longer available
5Chemistry.com
Match’s personality-test spin-off of the 2000s
HowAboutWe
Date-idea-first dating ahead of its time
Siren
Women-controlled visibility, before Bumble scaled it
Guardian Soulmates
Dating for people who read the Guardian
The Dating Ring
The Y Combinator matchmaker that a podcast made famous