The Best Video Dating Apps for 2025

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People looking for love have embraced dating apps as a perfectly acceptable way to meet new romantic partners. However, not all dating apps are created equally. Right now, a dating app's best feature isn’t simply a community of cool users, but video functionality that lets you chat with other people face-to-face before an in-person meeting. With these top video dating apps, including Editors' Choice winners Match and Tinder, nothing can stop you from locking eyes with your next potential lover. Read on for the top apps we've tested, followed by everything you should know before signing up.

What Is the Best Video Dating App?

Many dating apps have browser-based versions, but the chances are you’ll do most of your swiping on a mobile device. It’s just easier to casually browse matches on the pocket computer that you carry with you all the time. Those pocket computers also have cameras and microphones that are perfect for video calls. With video calls, dating apps replicate the regular dating experience—just without the physical proximity.

Online dating can never replace meeting someone in real life, but video calls significantly bridge the gap. Right now, talking to people on the phone may be the only safe way to meet someone in your area, let alone halfway around the world. Even with the pandemic (hopefully) calming down, video calls serve as a useful extra step before making the ultimate leap to meet up with an online match offline. Swipe appealing profiles, send flirty messages, get virtual face time, and finally see if sparks fly during an in-person date.

Are Video Dating Apps Safe?

Video call functionality in dating apps extends beyond simply turning on your camera, and leaving you to the lovesick wolves. Match, Tinder, Bumble, and eharmony recognize that making a connection like this is scary, even scarier than sending a faceless message. Fortunately, these apps attempt to make video dating as comfortable as possible.

For starters, random users just can’t call you out of the blue. You’ll never see unwanted mugs. Instead, video chat is typically a feature you can only access with existing matches. Even then, the app then asks both people if they want to video chat, and only connects them if both parties consent. Some apps go even further with their video features. POF, and Zoosk let you livestream yourself to the entire community, not just your own matches. They’re like a romance-themed take on live broadcasting in social networks like Instagram. Zoosk's Great Dates feature even lets couples virtually tour exciting locales. Sparkze turns video dating into an online game show while Filteroff is virtual video speeding dating. Video dating can even make apps safer by thwarting scams and verifying ages. For more, check out our tips on avoiding online dating hoaxes.

Apps without built-in video chat may still ask if you’re down to video chat, so you can coordinate your virtual date on a separate chat service. Video conferencing tips that help you look good on a Zoom call also help you look good on your video date. As for ideas? Many dating apps also have blogs where you can read all sorts of advice, including virtual date suggestions. OkCupid lacks video chat, but its blog has great distanced-dating ideas like karaoke, shared dinners, and taking a virtual tour. Vinylly lets music lovers buy tickets for in-person and virtual concerts. Kippo lets matches chat over audio, and play games in its shared online social space, its "metaverse."

Ready For Your Close-Up?

Video chat is such an important part of today’s online dating market that major apps that didn’t offer virtual dating before the pandemic worked overtime to add the feature. Hinge made sure to loudly announce when it finally added video functionality alongside nifty audio recording features. So, if you don’t see your app of choice in this roundup, there’s hope that the service will adopt video calls in the future. In the meantime, turn on your camera and open your heart.

For more on dating, check out: How I Ended Up in a Tinder Ad Campaign, Match vs. Tinder: Which Dating Service Deserves Your Everlasting Love?, Secrets From a Dating App Founder, and the Best Hookup Apps.