The market for dating apps is awash with many things. Gimmicky features that you pay a small fee for, bots, pictures of men holding up fish they caught, joke profiles of boiled lobsters that skateboard, you name it. Unfortunately, the one thing that is required for any healthy relationship is often not offered at all: honesty and adequate communication.
Feeld has changed that. The nature of the app itself encourages you to be open with your thoughts. This dating app is incredibly queer- and kink-friendly, offering a space for people to find others with like minds and similar goals. The app is poly-friendly as well, with many couples and polycules looking for new partners. Feeld has quickly climbed in the ranks within the community as a great alternative to many other dating apps. There is no swiping feature, as it both trivializes the action of choosing a potential partner to something like a game and also people’s likes and dislikes change often.
Unfortunately, this inherent honesty that the app encourages can often come with issues, such as race fetishism and entitlement. It can absolutely be argued that this is good—Users of the app see the red flags immediately instead of having the other person hide them and suddenly spring an unsavory surprise on them. There also is no way to turn read receipts off, but those of us who don’t like confrontation but still want to read the messages so we can think about what to say have ways to circumvent these things.
Feeld began as a dating app when current chief executive Ana Kirova, fell in love with a woman while with her long time partner and founder of the app, Dimo Trivonov. The app was originally called 3nder, and originated as a place for couples and singles to meet. Being queer-friendly from the start, the kink-friendliness followed shortly after. The app rebranded due to Tinder threatening to take legal action on account of the name 3nder.
