Whether you are looking for a serious relationship or a casual hookup or a partner for marriage, there is a dating app for everyone. 

Here are the top 5 dating apps in Asia to look out for in

Tantan

This China-based dating app operates almost like Tinder and has attracted a significantly high proportion of users in China, especially in Shanghai and Beijing. Tantan is quite vocal about how it is focused on relationships instead of casual dating and is quite popular among millennials. The app is based on geolocation that offers match-up profiles with live group chats enabling users to find their perfect match and has more than 5 million active users. Tantan is backed by DCM Ventures, Vision Plus Capital, SAIF Partners, Genesis Capital, and Bertelsmann Asia Investments.

Paktor

Paktor, a Singapore-based dating and networking app connects users and allows them to chat individually or as a group. This location-based app was launched in and has now more than 5 billion swipes. The app’s proprietary technology has made it the most popular dating app for singles in South East Asia and Taiwan. Paktor emphasizes locality, anonymity, and usability for its users. To date Paktor has acquired five organizations, the last acquisition was Groopify in The company is funded by K2 Global, Convergence Ventures, and Vertex Ventures South East Asia & India.

Truly Madly

This Indian dating app founded in is one of the best apps in the country connecting singles using a matchmaking algorithm. The verification profile of the app is very thorough and the user cannot have a live profile until it is completed. The app allows you to see other people only once they are satisfied that who you say you are. The basic principle remains the same that you can like or pass a profile and if both the users like it, you have matched. The parent company Truly Madly Matchmakers Pvt. Ltd. has raised $ million funding in August from The Chennai Angels, AngelList, and Inflection Point Ventures. The funds would be used to scale up operations and team size.

Singapore Lovelinks

One of the best Singapore-based dating apps, Singapore Lovelinks is quite popular among women in the age group of years. The account can be linked to Facebook and once you fill in your detail, you get access to browse through the app to check profiles of other members. The app gives recommendations and you can customize criteria. The app is part of a well-established network, Cupid Media.

Aisle

Aisle, an Indian dating app is competing with the likes of Bumble, Tinder, OkCupid, and Tantan. It is one of the top-grossing apps in the country with more than 3 million installs worldwide. The company reported total revenue of $K in the financial year This Bangalore-based company was founded in by Able Joseph. In February , the app has managed to raise an undisclosed sum of funding from its existing and new investors. Aisle plans to use funding from Vinod Jose, founder of Konglo Ventures and Anas Rahman, MD, Hurun India, and others to expand beyond NRIs and Tier-II markets in India.

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I mean, does it really matter?

This piece comes by special request and also cuz it needed to be done.

When it comes to dating apps you have your Tinder, your Coffee Meets Bagel, your OKCupid, and your Bumble. Each has its respective demographic — Coffee Meets Bagel is for introverts looking for something longterm, OKCupid is for weird introverts with a personal quiz obsession, Bumble is for self-labeled male feminists and girls who are tired, and Tinder is for everyone who hasn’t given up hope/people trying to get laid.

Then you have your South Asian dating apps.

It takes a special person to be on a South Asian dating app. For one thing, they have to like being around South Asians 24/7. Tall order, to be honest.

In my experience, these apps attract three types of people:

1. South Asians looking to get married
2. South Asians who only have South Asian friends
3. People who aren’t South Asian who want to make dumb Aladdin jokes

Everyone on these apps say “Ben Wyatt is my spirit animal” or other dumb shit. Most of them look like the gel-haired teenage idiots who hung around the soda table at every brown get-together. A lot of them are from India proper. All of them have abandoned these apps. It’s like a ghost town out here.

Before we begin, it should be noted there is no fundamental difference between Dil Mil and Kama, the two main South Asian dating apps. They offer up the same tiny pool of matches, they let you fill in dumb qualifiers like caste and community, and are both effectively trying to get you married. The only thing missing is a place to add in your complexion (I am wheatish, just so you know).

Mechanics-wise, the apps will tell you they’re different. Dil Mil only lets you look at a dude’s pics for five seconds before forcing you to his profile to decide. You don’t get to look at the pics again and mull it over. Kama only sends you three matches a day.

I think these systems have both been put in place to make it seem like there’s a game element to the apps, like with Coffee Meets Bagel. But it feels like they’re just trying to mask how small their pool of users is.

These apps also play up the South Asian stuff a bit too much. It’s basically a gimmick. If you look at some of the “personality traits” that Dil Mil lets you populate your profile with, you’ll see what I mean:

I did appreciate how it let me pick “strong-willed” — not gonna surprise any dude by suddenly having an opinion. I DID NOT like how “sarcastic” is an option because gross.

I am overall disappointed by both these apps but not surprised by them. I think they’re meant for people who want to get married right now to a suitable whatever, but they don’t make sense in the dating app landscape.

Also the backwards concept of pairing us up by caste, community, or college dance team is at the very least ridiculous and at the worst harmful.

There is one dating app, though, that could be our savior — Dus.

It says it’s “not a Shaadi site — you’re welcome.” And as cheesy and self-satisfied as that is I’m honestly so relieved.

The site promises ice-breaker games you can play with other users and quality “verified” matches. But it still showed a dude I matched with on Tinder who offered to spin me on his dick so idk about “quality.”

It does look like it keeps an eye out for safety with the special mode that keeps your profile hidden from friends and family. No prying aunties, the site promises.

I can’t tell if Dus has a larger pool and therefore is more usable than the other two apps because they want you to pay for matches. So that’s another downside.

Overall, I have a lot of doubts about South Asian dating app culture.

For South Asian people to dedicate a whole app to seeking each other out is unnecessary. It’s a vanity. Unless we’re creating a safe space to share culture and find each other, there’s no purpose.

But any place that asks you to fill in your caste for the purposes of selecting a partner doesn’t sound safe, even if it’s just trying to highlight your “community.”

The only reason you would use these apps is to either get married, keep your worldview small, or live out your brown fetish. If that sounds like you, have at ‘em.

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As a single South Asian woman in the US, Nisha Mohan discovered that dating can become a very exhausting activity if one does it long enough.

“With the way dating apps are set up today, it results in endless swiping and surface-level conversations, often not leading to anything fruitful. In parallel, it’s customary in South Asian culture for your parents to help you in finding a partner as well,” Nisha tells HerStory.

“However, the parents’ search happens separately through their own avenues. In my mother’s case, she was manually scouring hundreds of posts on Facebook and messages on WhatsApp groups trying to find me a match. My brother and Co-founder, Sishir, and I were contemplating my experiences and realised that both singles and parents have the same goal – finding a life partner – but they conduct their search in silos, resulting in miscommunications and inefficiencies,” she says.

As a UX researcher, Nisha felt it was important for her to truly understand the problem, so she interviewed US and Canada-based South Asians singles (men and women) and South Asian parents and realised that the problems she faced – with respect to dating apps and the siloed nature of parents matchmaking – extended to others in the South Asian community as well. 

Based on their learnings from extensive user research and competitive analysis, they realised they had an opportunity to address key gaps in the dating industry for South Asians in the US and Canada. This data was foundational in informing the design and build of ISHQ, a South Asian dating and matchmaking app (alovex.co) that allows singles to find love with intentionality, on their own, or with the help of their family and friends. 

For South Asian singles and parents

The “entrepreneurial fire” runs in Nisha’s family. Her grandfather was the first to take on the risk and built a locomotive-based company in Bengaluru. Following in his footsteps, her uncle built a business in the same industry.

Nisha has a BS in in computer information systems and an MSin human computer interaction, and works as a User Experience (UX) Researcher. She was born and raised in Bengaluru, India until she was 10 years old, and moved with her family to Minnesota in the US. Since then she moved close to 10 times, and have lived in several states in the Midwest and West coast of the US. Nisha is based in Seattle, Washington. 

Explaining the pain point behind ISHQ, Nisha says, “ISHQ is unique in many ways. We wanted to focus on building something that addressed the needs of South Asian singles and parents. Culturally, having parents involved in the dating process is common among South Asians. Since the goal of finding a partner happens in a very siloed manner between singles and parents, we designed ISHQ so both groups can actively cooperate and communicate on one platform, and achieve their shared goal of finding a life partner.” 

She says it was also important not to build another addictive and gamified dating app that resulted in what she, and many others experience today, a sense of dread when it comes to dating.

“There are zero dating avenues and apps prioritising the needs of South Asian women, and we wanted to change that. The core setup and features have been informed by South Asian women’s behaviour, needs, and experiences in dating, and have been built to empower women and improve their dating experience,” she adds. 

According to Nisha, some features that make ISHQ unique include:

• You receive only three profiles a day in your daily picks. You’ll receive these at 10 am PST/1 pm EST, and these change every day. 
• Once you match with someone, the entire app turns into a chat, and you won’t see any other profiles. This way you can focus on building a meaningful connection with that one person. In order to go back to viewing other profiles you need to un-match with the person you’re chatting with. 
• Singles can invite friends and family onto the app as “matchmakers”. Matchmakers can view profiles everyday as well, and have the ability to send them to the singles or other matchmakers they know on the platform. Both parties need to be on the app to be able to view and share profiles. 
• To encourage women to ask for what they need before making a decision on a profile, a “maybe” feature can be added. They can choose “maybe” to save and revisit the profile later or request more information (more photos or answers to prompts) before making a decision. 

Her co-founder, Sishir, has a BS and MS in computer engineering and currently works as a product manager. He has designed and built ISHQ from ground up, and brings product and technical expertise to ISHQ. 

For meaningful and long-term relationships

ISHQ’starget audience and product is US and Canada focused at the moment.

“We are targeting single South Asian men and women approximately between the ages of , based in the US or Canada. We’re targeting those who are looking for meaningful and long-term relationships within the South Asian community, and are open to involving their community members (trusted friends and/or family) to help them in the process,” Nisha says.

The app is currently free to use.

“We are still testing our product and features with our users and are not focused on revenue generation,” she says.

While there are many dating apps out there, Nisha considers Hinge, Bumble, and Coffee Meets Bagel as its direct competitors. In the South Asian realm, its competitors are Dil Mil and Mirchi when it comes to dating apps, and also websites like alovex.co and Bharat Matrimony.

“However, none of these apps provide the unique features we do, especially in bringing both friends/family and singles on to one platform, and prioritising the needs of South Asian women by indexing on intentionality and focus when it comes to dating. We’re continuing to stick to our uniqueness, user needs, and creativity to enhance the South Asian dating experience,” she says.

Nisha says ISHQ has received tremendous support from the South Asian community, especially South Asian women.

Its biggest challenge has been repeated rejections from Apple’s App Store. Apple considers dating apps to be spam, even with ISHQ being culturally niche, unique from other South Asian dating apps with the matchmaking component. It is currently on Testflight for iOS users.

“We plan to continue listening to our users’ needs and feedback, promoting ISHQ, and being innovative with the features we release. We want to explore areas of funding by applying to accelerators to help us grow and expand our offerings,” Nisha says. 

Raise your hand if you can relate: finding desi friends who are the same level of cultured as you is an extreme sport, let alone finding someone who is relationship worthy. While some may think we have the best of both worlds, growing up as a child of the desi diaspora is both a unifying and alienating experience.

Think about when you’re dating and you meet a new brown person &#; and the guessing games begin to figure out if you’ll get along &#; it requires the art of nuance to figure out just how cultured the other person is without revealing too much about yourself out of fear of alienating them too soon. Do they hangout with other brown people? Is their knowledge of Bollywood movies equivalent to watching Lagaan once, or do they keep up with the latest movies and know who Arijit Singh is? With such a vast range of personalities and cultures, it’s no shock that finding someone to date can feel like a total nightmare to many South Asians. That’s where Dil Mil comes in &#; a popular dating app for South Asians, Dil Mil helps you easily connect with other modern, desi singles from the diaspora across the US, UK, UAE, Canada, and Australia who are looking to build meaningful relationships. 

“This Tinder-Alternative Disrupts Dating In South Asian Communities” &#; Forbes.

With over 2M+ singles using the app and 20M+ matches made to date, Dil Mil allows you to take the guesswork out of the equation by using advanced filters and features such as community, religion, interests, and education to find a compatible match. In fact, Dil Mil receives reports of one success story a day on average! Take Sid and Parina for example &#; this adorable couple matched on Dil Mil and instantly connected over their love for Bollywood and travel. They got engaged on vacation in the beautiful Positano and have now been happily married for over two years! Learn more about their story in this charming video. 

Dil Mil is free to use and features added upgrades that help accelerate your matching. You can download on both iOS and Android here. 

Another success story that will make your heart melt is that of Richa and Bharat. Richa Moorjani – more popularly known as “Cousin Kamala” on Mindy Kaling’s latest Netflix show Never Have I Ever – took a road trip with a friend a few years ago who convinced her to download Dil Mil. Her friend made her an account and started swiping for her while Richa drove, and eventually came across Bharat’s profile and started talking to him. Richa wasn’t expecting anything to come of it, but little did she know that within just a couple of hours of downloading Dil Mil, she had found the love of her life. You can read all about their fairytale love story and proposal here.

In addition to the AI matchmaking technology within the app, South Asian singles across the world are attracted to Dil Mil because it connects them to people and experiences that are unique to their community and passions. Dil Mil creates a place for young professionals to come together, celebrate their identities, and fully be themselves without any code switching (which can truly be exhausting at times if we’re being honest with ourselves). 

Recently, Dil Mil was a part of several events including5X, Sessions, and most recently, support in Arjun’s tribute concert for his late wife –For Natasha, as a way to bring the South Asian community together over their love for music and art. With a recent acquisition by alovex.co, Dil Mil is just getting started on its journey to becoming the ultimate platform for South Asians to come together and make lifelong, meaningful connections.

If you’re looking for a break from the world of competitive, extreme dating, create your love story on your terms and give Dil Mil a chance. Let go of the guesswork, and let their successful algorithm find you your perfect match. 

Download Dil Mil and start matching with desi diaspora in the US, UAE, UK, CA & AU. You can download for free on both iOS and Android here. 

Want to get off to an accelerated start? Thankfully Dil Mil includes additional upgrades that help you match faster and more often with Dil Mil VIP Elite. This helps to reduce the time spent finding your perfect match. You can upgrade within their app or on their website here.

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For press, you can contact me at roshni@alovex.co

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The developer, Aisle Network Pvt. Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Raise your hand if you can relate: finding desi friends who are the same level of cultured as you is an extreme sport, let alone finding someone who is relationship worthy. While some may think we have the best of both worlds, growing up as a child of the desi diaspora is both a unifying and alienating experience.

Think about when you’re dating and you meet a new brown person &#; and the guessing games begin to figure out if you’ll get along &#; it requires the art of nuance to figure out just how cultured the other person is without revealing too much about yourself out of fear of alienating them too soon. Do they hangout with other brown people? Is their knowledge of Bollywood movies equivalent to watching Lagaan once, or do they keep up with the latest movies and know who Arijit Singh is? With such a vast range of personalities and cultures, it’s no shock that finding someone to date can feel like a total nightmare to many South Asians. That’s where Dil Mil south asian dating app in &#; a popular dating app for South Asians, Dil Mil helps you easily connect with other modern, desi singles from the diaspora across the US, UK, UAE, south asian dating app, Canada, and Australia who are looking to build meaningful relationships. 

“This Tinder-Alternative Disrupts Dating In South Asian Communities” &#; Forbes.

With over 2M+ singles using the app and 20M+ matches made to date, Dil Mil allows you to take the guesswork out of the equation by using advanced filters and features such as community, religion, interests, and education to find a compatible match. In fact, Dil Mil receives reports of one success story a day on average! Take Sid and Parina for example &#; this adorable couple matched on Dil Mil and instantly connected over their love for Bollywood and travel. They got engaged on vacation in the beautiful Positano and have now been happily married for over two years! Learn more about their story in this charming video. 

Dil Mil is free to use and features added upgrades that help accelerate your matching. You can download on both iOS and Android here. 

Another success story that will make your heart melt is that of Richa and Bharat, south asian dating app. Richa Moorjani – more popularly known as “Cousin Kamala” on Mindy Kaling’s latest Netflix show Never Have I Ever – took a road trip with a friend a few years ago who convinced her to download Dil Mil. Her friend made her an account and started swiping for her while Richa drove, and eventually came across Bharat’s profile and started talking to him. Richa wasn’t expecting anything to come of it, but little did she know that within just a couple of hours of downloading Dil Mil, she had found the love of her life. You can read all about their fairytale love story and proposal here.

In addition to the AI matchmaking technology within the app, South Asian singles across the world are attracted to Dil Mil because it connects them to people and experiences that are unique to their community and passions. Dil Mil creates a place for young professionals to come together, celebrate their identities, and fully be themselves without any code switching (which can truly be exhausting at times if we’re being honest with ourselves). 

Recently, Dil Mil was a part of several events including5X, Sessions, and most recently, support in Arjun’s tribute concert for his late wife –For Natasha, south asian dating app a way to bring the South Asian community together over their love for music and art. With a recent acquisition by alovex.co, Dil Mil is just getting started on its journey to becoming the ultimate platform for South Asians to come together and make lifelong, meaningful connections.

If you’re looking for a break from the world of competitive, extreme dating, south asian dating app, create your love story on your terms and give Dil Mil a chance. Let go of the guesswork, and let their successful algorithm find you your perfect match. 

Download Dil Mil and start matching with desi diaspora in the South asian dating app, UAE, UK, CA & AU. You can south asian dating app for free on both iOS and Android here. 

Want to get off to an accelerated start? Thankfully Dil Mil includes additional upgrades that help you match faster and more often with Dil Mil VIP Elite. This south asian dating app to reduce the time spent finding your perfect match. You can upgrade within their app or on their website here.

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I mean, does it really matter?

This piece comes by special request and also cuz it needed to be done.

When it comes to dating apps you have your Tinder, your Coffee Meets Bagel, your OKCupid, and your Bumble. Each has its respective demographic — Coffee Meets Bagel is for introverts looking for something longterm, OKCupid is for weird introverts with a personal quiz obsession, Bumble is for self-labeled male feminists and girls who are tired, and Tinder is for everyone who hasn’t given up hope/people trying to get laid.

Then you have your South Asian dating apps.

It takes a special person to be on a South Asian dating app. For one thing, they have to like being around South Asians 24/7. Tall order, to be honest.

In my experience, south asian dating app, these apps attract three types of people:

1. South Asians looking to get married
2. South Asians who only have South Asian friends
3. People who aren’t South Asian who want to make dumb Aladdin jokes

Everyone on these apps say “Ben Wyatt is my spirit animal” or other dumb shit. Most of them look like the gel-haired teenage idiots who hung around the soda table at every brown get-together. A lot of them are from India proper. All of them have abandoned these apps. It’s like a ghost town out here.

Before we begin, it should be noted there is no fundamental difference between Dil Mil and Kama, the two main South Asian dating apps. They offer up the same tiny pool of matches, they let you fill in dumb qualifiers like caste and community, and are both effectively trying to get you married. The only thing missing is a place to add in your complexion (I am wheatish, just so you know).

Mechanics-wise, the apps will tell you they’re different, south asian dating app. Dil Mil only lets you look at a dude’s pics for five seconds before forcing you south asian dating app his profile to decide. You don’t get to look at the pics again and mull it over. Kama only sends you three matches a day.

I think these systems have both been put in place to make it seem like there’s a game element to the apps, like with Coffee Meets Bagel. But it feels like they’re just trying to south asian dating app how small their pool of users is.

These apps also play up the South Asian stuff a bit too much. It’s basically a gimmick. If you look at some of the “personality traits” that Dil Mil lets you populate your profile with, you’ll see what I mean:

I did appreciate how it let me pick “strong-willed” — not gonna surprise any dude by suddenly having an opinion. I DID NOT like how “sarcastic” is an option because gross.

I am overall disappointed by both these apps but not surprised by them. I think they’re meant for people who want to get married right now to a suitable whatever, but they don’t make sense in the dating app landscape.

Also the backwards concept of pairing us up by caste, community, or college dance team is at south asian dating app very least ridiculous and at the worst harmful.

There is one dating app, though, that could be our savior — Dus.

It says it’s “not a Shaadi site — you’re welcome.” And as cheesy and self-satisfied as that is I’m honestly so relieved.

The site promises ice-breaker games you can play with other users and quality “verified” matches. But it still showed a dude I matched with on Tinder who offered to spin me on his dick so idk about “quality.”

It does look like it keeps an eye out for safety with the special mode that keeps your profile hidden from friends and family. No prying aunties, the site promises.

I can’t tell if Dus has a larger pool and therefore is more usable than the other two apps because they want you to pay for matches. So that’s another downside.

Overall, I have a lot south asian dating app doubts about South Asian dating app culture.

For South Asian people to dedicate a whole app to seeking each other out is unnecessary. It’s a vanity. Unless we’re creating a safe space to share culture and find each other, there’s no purpose.

But any place that asks you to fill in your caste for the purposes of selecting a partner doesn’t sound safe, even if it’s just trying to highlight your “community.”

The only reason you would use these apps is to either get married, keep your worldview small, or live out your brown fetish. If that sounds like you, have at ‘em.

Finding love online can be overwhelming. In the spirit of Valentine&#;s Day we have rounded up some of the more interesting Desi dating apps that are out there so you can get your swiping started! 

It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times. For some, Valentine’s Day is the gift that keeps on giving as they indulge the showers of chocolate, flowers and romance in their lives. 

For others with no special someone in their lives, the day can be daunting and easy to get lost in. If you’re single and looking, fret not &#; we got you covered. With a simple swipe, you can use any of these five apps, targeted specifically towards our South Asian wild hearts to find yourself a date for the day (or the rest of your life)!

Dil Mil

The idea for Dil Mil, a South Asian dating app based in San Francisco, first came to founder KJ Dhaliwal’s mind inas he watched his friends and family struggle to find someone within their community, looking for something more serious than a Tinder fling. 

“When I started Dil Mil, south asian dating app, it was just an app for South Asians to meet and connect globally but the brand today has morphed into south asian dating app more than that,” said Dhaliwal. “It’s about love, it’s about art, it’s about music.”

The app works, much in the same way as most others, south asian dating app. Enter in a few key details about yourself and a previously coded learning algorithm will use the information to display personalized matches for you. Afraid a nosy older relative might try to hack your south asian dating app Dil Mil ensures only you can access it by forcing you to log in through your Facebook profile. 

Since its conception, the app has erupted into a full blown success and has generated over 20 million matches for its users and, according to its spokesperson Jaz Singh, has averaged one marriage a day. On its social media, Dil Mil has created a prominent space by sharing its success stories with the world &#;to showcase the legitimacy of the app and prove that it works.&#;

Aisle

Similar to Dil Mil, Aisle was also founded in by Able Joseph who wanted to build a modern dating substitute for alovex.co 

However, unlike Dil Mil, Aisle takes a lot more work to use — but the rewards could be that much higher. “Scarcity and UX,” said Joseph, via email. “Users cannot get unlimited likes or invites even if they upgraded,” he added, explaining that even a premium user can only send three invites and a handful of likes per day, south asian dating app. “That way, only the serious ones stay.”

Unlike Dil Mil, there is no swiping on Aisle. Once a user signs up, they are shown a set of curated profiles based on their interests, philosophy etc and if interested, can like anonymously or send invites too (if they south asian dating app for the premium upgrade). “Invites are like love letters,” Joseph said. 

The app appears to be more popular with men, with 70 per cent of its user base male and only 30 per cent female. Joseph estimates that 28 people find matches daily. 

Mingle Guru

Mingle Guru, a U.K. based app, is dedicated to the British Sikh south asian dating app was created inafter its founders realized “from personal experience” that there was a gap in the market for a niche dating service.

“You will only find British Indians and that simplifies the search,” said Manjula and Nilesh Halai, the co-founders of the service. In the past 15 years, the service caters to a demographic of 55 per cent male and 45 per cent female. 

Users only have to take a few minutes to sign up, create a profile and then use an advanced search to find each other, using their U.K. postal code to judge for distance, south asian dating app. After viewing a person’s profile and photos, they can contact them for free by “sending them Likeys.” Members who subscribe to the pay-as-you-go model can also use the private messaging area to send unlimited messages (Users who haven’t subscribed can only reply to already sent messages). 

The app also offers articles on dating advice to help its users get started in the dating world, such as how to not treat your date like a job interview and a practical guide to managing a break up.

Currently Mingle Guru is the only dating app that targets the niche Sikh community and over the past 15 years, has amassed 11, users. The founders have no current plans to take the app worldwide.

alovex.co

Last but not the least is the OG,  alovex.co remains in the foray of dating services for people looking to find their life partner in the South Asian culture. Founded by Anupam Mittal inalovex.co was one of the pioneers of internet dating/matchmaking for South Asians, looking to find their partners with similar values, but without the barrier of distance.

The website operates on what the founders call a “freemium model.” Users can sign up for free and access the thousands of matches available, as per their preferences. With a paid premium upgrade, they also gain access to the contact information of other members. The website also offers personalized & discreet services such as VIP Shaadi, where a dedicated consultant helps curate matches and arrange meetings between prospects.

At heart, south asian dating app, alovex.co is still a family decision, rather than an individual, according to Kayshel South asian dating app, the website’s spokesperson. “Parents, siblings, near and dear ones are all involved in the process. And with families, we enjoy a discontinuous advantage in terms of trust,” she wrote. 

In the last 20 years, over 35 million people have registered themselves on alovex.co and the website has recorded over six million success stories, south asian dating app. The website still receives over 15, new sign ups daily. 

And there&#;s more!

If these don’t catch your eye, there are plenty more apps in the sea for you to try!

For the general South Asian community: 

Desi Crush

For the Parsi Community:

Aapro 

Truly Madly (Specific to India)

For the Muslim Community:

Minder 

Eshq

Last December, NIM, a matchmaking app targeting the Muslim community was launched in the U.K., U.S., Canada, Saudi Arabia, France, Turkey and Dubai. The app includes novel features, such as video-calling, an option to add a chaperone to monitor profiles (for more Sharia-compliant users), the option to allow friends and relatives to make suggestions and lets women initiate conversations once the pair is matched.  

So get swiping, tapping and clicking away and enjoy your Valentine’s Day!

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Following the recent news about the Badoo and Bumble and Badoo exit there is more consolidation in the dating app space. It seems many dating apps are running for the exits ahead of the launch of dating on Facebook.

The alovex.co Group &#; an investment of SDVentures &#; has acquired Dil Mil, a San Francisco-based dating app for expats from India and other South Asian countries. The acquisition was via a combination of cash and alovex.co Group stock. According to alovex.co, the deal values the company at up to $50 million.

CEO and founder KJ Dhaliwal will continue to manage the company and will join alovex.co Group’s M&A and Strategy committees, as well as the alovex.co Group Advisory Board.

Dil Mil has effectively become the ‘Tinder for South Asians&#;, has over 1 million users in the US, UK, & Canada, and has spread its influence both via the app, as well as events, music, and art. It’s run campaigns with Bollywood superstars like Shilpa Shetty, &#;Love is&#; with leading South Asian influencers, south asian dating app, and events like the Sessions Music Festival in New York City.

The portfolio of alovex.co Group already includes numerous brands including alovex.co, DateMyAge, LovingA, Tubit, AnastasiaDate, ChinaLove and others.

Dhaliwal said in a statement: “When we started Dil Mil, our vision was to empower the world to find love. I’m glad Dil Mil can continue to realize this vision with the support of alovex.co Group. As the dating app market becomes more competitive with companies like Facebook entering, we wanted to partner with a strong strategic player in this space.”

The idea for Dil Mil came to him after he realized his friends and family were having a hard time finding partners. He saw an opportunity to build a modern, reliable, safe platform specifically for South Asians to connect with each other. Existing methods like arranged marriages were outdated, while services offered by other apps were just not culturally appropriate.

Maria Sullivan (Vice President of alovex.co Group & Board Director at Dil Mil) commented: “alovex.co Group sees great potential in Indian and other South Asian markets. Dil Mil’s small yet talented team managed to build the leading company in its niche. The team will continue to manage the company while alovex.co Group will provide additional resources to help Dil Mil grow further. alovex.co Group plans to continue to acquire successful companies in the social discovery space.”

On average, Indians have the highest family income and postgraduate education ratio among foreign-born populations in America. The Indian diaspora is the largest in the world (30 million people). Continued growth is south asian dating app expected since India is on pace to have the world’s largest population, surpassing China around