Best trans dating apps: Taimi, HER, Butterfly compared

Every list like this one is written by somebody with a reason to write it, and ours is that we are building a sixth app. So here is the rule we set ourselves: nothing on this page is our impression of an app. Every factual claim comes from the app's own store listings, website or help pages, last checked on 18 September 2026, and where a source was silent or our check failed, the page says so.

We have not ranked them, and we are not going to. Which one is best depends on who you are, who you are looking for and which platform you own, and a ranking would mostly be a way of putting ourselves at the top of it.

The four questions that decide it

Who it is for. This is the one people underestimate. An app built for everyone and an app built only for trans people produce very different experiences from identical feature lists. Read who each app says it is for, in its own words, and how it holds that line, because no app can check anyone's gender.

What the safety tools actually are. Verification, blocking, reporting, and control over what your profile shows. The useful question is not whether an app has these but whether the ones that protect you are free.

What costs money. Specifically: does anything that keeps you safe or lets you reply to a message sit behind a subscription? That is the line between a paid feature and a hostage situation.

Where it runs. Prosaic, but if the app you want is not on your phone, the rest is academic.

What the listings say

Where we could not verify something

Most of these apps list in-app purchase prices without saying which duration each price buys. We reproduce the figures without converting them into monthly costs, because that conversion would be a guess presented as a fact. Translr and Fiorry put the duration in the name of each subscription, Butterfly names its plan lengths without matching them to prices, and HER gives a starting price per month.

We could not find a Google Play listing for Butterfly, whose own Android page still refers to a mid-2021 release; it can be used on the web instead. Translr's Android listing, which we could not read in August, loaded in full this time. We found no official source saying that Translr used to be called Transdr, so we no longer present it as a rename.

We have not tested any of these apps' moderation, verification or matching. Nobody can verify a moderation claim from the outside, including us, and a page that pretended otherwise would be worthless.

Including ourselves in this, honestly

T4TSpace is in the table above because leaving it out would be coy. It is open: you can make an account today at t4tspace.com/app and use it in a browser. There is no App Store or Google Play listing, and no waitlist any more.

What we cannot honestly claim is scale. The five apps above have years of users; we are new, the people here are spread across many countries, and we show you the real number of people near you before you decide it is worth your time. If that number is too small where you are, one of the five will serve you better this month, and saying so costs us nothing we would want to keep.

One thing we cannot claim either: that everyone on T4TSpace is trans. The app is made for trans and non-binary people, but nobody's gender is checked, here or anywhere else. A person checks every account before it can see anyone, and that check confirms a real adult whose selfie matches their main photo. The rest rests on three commitments everyone agrees to and on reports decided by a person within 24 hours.