Match Group's second quarter: Tinder still shrinking, Hinge growing
Match Group, which owns Tinder and Hinge, reported second-quarter revenue of $853 million on August 4, 2026, down 1% from a year earlier. Tinder's daily active users fell 4% and Hinge's revenue rose 22%, according to the company's release.
Match Group, the company that owns Tinder and Hinge, reported its second-quarter results on August 4, 2026. Revenue was $853 million, down 1% from a year earlier, and net income was $171 million, according to the company’s results release. The release counts 13.25 million payers, meaning users who pay for a subscription or a feature, across the group, down 6% in a year.
Tinder’s daily active users, the people who open the app on a given day, fell 4% year over year, while Hinge’s revenue rose 22%, the release says. On payers, Hinge was up 17% and Tinder down 5%, according to the company’s quarterly filing. The same filing puts Hinge’s direct revenue at $203.5 million for the quarter, up from $167.5 million a year earlier. Tinder’s was $457.5 million, down from $461.2 million. Hinge also entered six more European countries and four in Latin America, according to the release, which does not name them.
Tinder is still Match’s biggest brand, at $457.5 million against Hinge’s $203.5 million, and it is shrinking slowly. Hinge is the one growing. Our reading: Match owns both, so a dater who leaves Tinder for Hinge is a loss for one app, not for the company. For Match, the question is less whether Tinder shrinks than whether Hinge grows fast enough to make up for it.
The release leaves two things open. It does not name the countries Hinge entered, so we cannot tell you whether yours is one of them. And one quarter does not show where Tinder is heading. A slower fall in daily users is still a fall.