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Free trans dating apps: what free actually buys you

Every app here is free to install. The question worth asking is whether anything that protects you sits behind the paywall.

Last checked on 18 September 2026, against each app's own store listing and website.

Free trans dating app is a search with a trap in it, because all five apps in this comparison answer yes. Every one of them has a free tier, and every one of them makes its money from subscriptions layered on top.

So the useful question is not whether an app is free but what the free tier withholds, and in particular whether the withheld thing is a convenience or a protection. Everything below comes from each app's own pages, last checked on 18 September 2026.

Free to install is not free to use

The standard model in this category is a free tier that lets you make a profile and browse, with limits on the things that make an app usable: how many people you can see, how many messages you can send, whether you can tell who liked you.

That is ordinary and not in itself a problem. A dating app costs money to run, and charging for reach is a defensible way to cover it.

What each one charges for

What each app's own pages say, checked 18 September 2026
App	Who it is for	Verification	Privacy and reporting	What costs money	Platforms
Taimi	People of all genders and sexualities, cis people included. 18+.	Photo verification with a blue checkmark; its help centre recommends it rather than requiring it	Free stealth mode, screenshots blocked on profiles, reports reviewed by a person	Free to use; Taimi Premium sold as Bronze, Silver and Gold, $0.99 to $34.99 on the US App Store, durations not published	iOS, Android. No web app.
Butterfly	Any gender or sexuality, on the basis that every member is open to dating trans people. 18+.	Face-liveness check, mandatory only in some countries; the verification image is shown pixelated	Face-free photos allowed, approximate location, messages deleted after 30 days, report and block button	Limited free messaging; VIP subscription for unlimited messages, $9.99 to $143.99 on the US App Store	iOS, website and mobile website. No Google Play listing we could find.
Translr	Trans people and their admirers, in its own words. 18+.	Profile and video verification; whether it is required is not stated	24/7 moderation, objectionable content removed within 24 hours, visibility settings	VIP $14.99 for 1 month, $29.99 for 3, $49.99 for 6; coins from $1.99 (US App Store)	iPhone and Android. No web app.
Fiorry	Trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people plus allies, including cis men who want to meet trans women. 18+.	Photo verification required before full access: selfies compared with the profile photo	Choose which genders can find you, hide location or age, reports reviewed by software and people	Core features free; Plus and Unlimited subscriptions, weekly to yearly, $5.99 to $69.99 on the US App Store	iPhone and Android. No web app found.
HER	Queer women, trans women, trans men, non-binary and gender non-conforming people. 18+.	Face photo required; verification by social account and photo, encouraged and free	Incognito mode in the paid tiers, reports reviewed by software and trained staff, chasers banned by its rules	Core features free; Gold and Platinum tiers, from $14.99 a month on the US App Store	iOS, Android. No web version.
T4TSpace us	Made for trans and non-binary people. Nobody's gender is checked. 18+.	Required for everyone and free: a person compares a selfie with the main photo before the account can see anyone	Exact location never stored, profiles never indexed, reports decided by a person within 24 hours	Prices published: $3.99 / $9.99 / $19.99 a month; nothing is charged today; the first 1000 verified accounts stay free while active	Web app, in any browser. Not on the App Store or Google Play.

The line worth watching

There is a difference between paying for reach and paying for safety. Charging for unlimited likes is a business model. Putting verification, blocking, incognito or visibility controls behind a subscription means the people most exposed to harm are the ones asked to pay to reduce it, and that is a different kind of decision.

Read the money column above against the verification and privacy columns beside it. Fiorry requires photo verification before full access rather than selling it as a tier, and its T4T space, once part of a paid mode, is now free. Taimi's stealth mode is free. HER's incognito mode is part of its paid tiers. Those distinctions matter more than the headline price.

What we could not verify, and will not guess

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.

Prices also differ by country and change without notice. Whatever you read here, check the listing on your own store before relying on a number.

Where we stand in this

We publish our prices, we are not charging anyone today, and the first thousand verified accounts stay free while they are active. We would rather say that plainly than describe ourselves as free and quietly add a paywall later.

Nothing that protects you will ever sit behind a subscription here. Verification is the condition of entry rather than a badge you buy, which means it cannot be a premium feature without the product stopping being what it is.

Sources

Checked 18 September 2026. Store listings change, and prices differ by country: check your own before relying on any figure here.

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