7 Best Ways to Find out If Someone Is on Tinder (2023) (2023)

It’s true that modern-day dating apps like Tinder have opened us up to endless possibilities of meeting new people and ideally, meeting the love of our life. However, it’s also the breeding ground for habitual liars, cheaters, and catfish alike who lurk around and break hearts.

Whether you want to verify your new online date, or you’re suspicious of your boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse not being faithful, finding out if he or she is on a dating site, Tinder specifically, is a good place to start.

The good news is, there are actually 7 ways you can find out…

How to find out if someone has a Tinder profile

It’s a pity that due to privacy reasons, Tinder only allows you to search your matches but not everyone else using the app. But don’t worry, you still have other ways to find out:

1. Find out if someone is on Tinder with TruthFinder

Whenever you want to dig out hidden truths about people, make TruthFinder your first stop. With millions of data points in its database, TruthFinder allows you to enter just a name to find someone on 100 social networks, which include Tinder, Match, eharmony, OkCupid, Snapchat, Instagram, and so on.

1. Go to TruthFinder official website, enter the name of the person, then click SEARCH.
   
2. Sit tight while TruthFinder combs through billions of records. Once it locates a match, it’ll generate a detailed report. From there, you can get a peek into the owner’s presence on 100+ social platforms (Tinder included) and learn what they’ve been up to, without even logging in.

2. Run a background check with Intelius

Intelius is another background check engine built with “Living in the known” in mind. It constantly updates its database, which makes it a trustworthy site known for providing fast and accurate reports.

Here is how to find someone on Tinder with Intelius:

1. Go to Intelius Official Website.
2. Choose the search type: name, phone, and address (For email search, you’ll need to sign up), then enter the information and click Search.
   
3. Wait a few minutes as Intelius scours through its database. Once it locates a match, it will compile the associated records and build them into a report for you.
   

3. Search 55+ online profiles with BeenVerified

BeenVerified is a social media search engine known for its versatile ways of searching for someone’s presence. The website itself doesn’t support Tinder, but you can still use it to trace someone’s digital footprint on 55+ social networks.

1. Go to BeenVerified People Search.
2. Choose a search type (name/phone number/email address/username) and click SEARCH.
   
3. Within a minute, you’ll receive a detailed background report containing all found public records about the person. This includes the link to their dating profile if available.
   

To access the report, you will need to pay a fee. The good news is BeenVerified is now offering a 7-day trial for just$1. During the trial, you can enjoy everything that comes with a standard membership.

4. Social Catfish

Met someone new on Tinder and wonder if they’re who they claim they are? Or, are you suspicious of your partner loitering around on Tinder? Social Catfish may just give you the answer.

Social Catfish not only finds people but also verifies their identity. All you need to do is enter a name, email, phone number, username, and location or upload an image.

1. To find out if someone is on Tinder, go to Social Catfish Official Website.
2. Choose a search type, enter the information and click Search.
3. Within minutes, you’ll receive a detailed report about the person you searched for. This usually includes their activity on Tinder and other dating sites if available.
   

Hire a private investigator at Social Catfish

If you’re serious about learning as much as possible about the person, and you want guaranteed results, you can pay for a Social Catfish Specialty Service. The people search experts at Social Catfish will do all the hard work for you, using the same tools that the FBI uses. And they guarantee they’ll find the person.

5. Spokeo (supports searching by only first name)

Spokeo is a powerful people search engine. With billions of up-to-date records in its database, it allows you to look up any people’s personal information on 120+ social sites. This means that whether a person has a profile on Tinder, OkCupid, Meetme, Hinge, Bumble, or Instagram and Snapchat, a search at Spokeo will lead you to it.

All searches are done confidentially – the people you look up will not be notified. And the process takes up only a few minutes.

Here is how to use Spokeo to find out if someone has a Tinder account.

Step 1: Go to Spokeo official website.

Step 2: Enter the name, phone number, or email address and clickSEARCH NOW.

Step 3: Wait for Spokeo to search its database.

Spokeo provides basic information search for free. But if you want to get access to the full report, you’ll need to pay a subscription. If you’re not quite up for the membership, you can try the 7-day trial for only $0.95.

6. Run a Google search

Search engines are another good source where you can find out if someone is on Tinder. To do so, simply open your web browser, then type tinder.com/@username (You’ll need to replace @username with the person’s name who you’re trying to search) into the search bar and hit Enter.

Within seconds, you’ll be presented with all people who are using Tinder with that name. If you click on the results and peruse them one by one to check if the person is on the site.

7. Try “signing in”

This one is a little sneaky and you may risk breaching the trust between you and the other person. Please use it at your own discretion.

If you insist on taking the plunge, you can open the Tinder app and try logging in with your partner’s email address, then enter a password you can come up with. If you’re prompted with the “wrong password” error message, it indicates that the email address has been used and very likely they have a Tinder account. If you want to keep it a hush-hush, be careful not to click on a Forgot your password or Reset Password link that might prompt the system to send an email to the account.

How to tell if someone is active on Tinder

When you started to run research on the person to check if the person has a Tinder profile, you may have prepared yourself for the result. So don’t panic when you do see existing profiles associated with that person’s name. And even if he or she does have an account, it doesn’t mean they’ve been active on it, and nor is it a smoking gun of his or her infidelity – they may have created the account ages ago and forgotten it long since (you two met). Regardless, you can do further snooping if you want to.

Again, Tinder doesn’t show last active or online status, but once you have found out their Tinder profile, you can try the following clues to figure out if someone is at least recently active on the app:

The green dot symbol

While the green dot symbol may not indicate real-time status as it does in other messaging services, it does mean that a user has been online in the last 24 hours if they have a green dot next to their name. But this is a premium feature, and you will need a Tinder Gold or Tinder Platinum members membership in order to check out this symbol on other users.

See If the user is typing

This is a very obvious cue, except that you can only test it if you’re expecting a reply from the person. If he/she is writing to you, you may be able to see the typing bubbles as they enter something into the chatbox.

Swipe right to see if they swipe right on you

You can try swiping right and see if they do the same. If yes, they’re on the app. Or, if they have turned the notifications on, they may take a look and check you out. But if you don’t get a “match”, it’s either he’s not using the app or he’s not “into” you.

Change of locations

This is a very useful clue as Tinder updates your whereabouts as long as you’re connected to the internet and open the app. You can check whether the person’s location has been updated since the last time you talked to him/her or opened their profile. For example, if the person you’re looking up was 16 miles away from you two days ago and now it’s 28 miles, he/she has definitely been making their rounds on the app over the last 48-hour window.

Updates in profile

You can go on checking out their Tinder profile to see if there are any updates that suggest their recent activity. For instance, having a photo taken three years ago before you two were committed to each other on his profile might not be hard evidence of him loitering around on Tinder but if he posts selfies taken last week in the bathroom of your shared apartment, it’d be a whole different story.

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