January 21, 2025

2025 Product Roadmap: A More Personalized Experience, Powered by AI, Wherever You Are

To our valued Grindr Community,

We at Grindr are so grateful to be an essential product for so many of you, helping connect you with the gay community anywhere in the world. Thank you for your trust in us and for all the feedback that you share with us!

We are committed to building out a world-class app that serves your daily-needs as the Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™. Whether you’re seeking casual connections, long-term relationships, travel tips, or ways to meet new people while exploring, we’re building features that cater to your needs and desires, no matter where you are.

Today, we are thrilled to share our 2025 Product Roadmap, which includes six new intent-based, AI-powered personalization and travel products. These new groundbreaking features are designed to give you even more ways to connect and ensure your Grindr experience is as meaningful and aligned with your intentions as possible. By putting your unique preferences and intentions at the heart of the experience, we strive to add value for you - our users - because we believe strongly that you deserve a product that fulfills and surpasses your varying needs.

We are looking forward to seeing how you respond to these new features and can’t wait to hear your feedback as we continue building Grindr into the ultimate Global Gayborhood. You can read the highlights of what we’re building for you this year below.

With appreciation for your continued loyalty to and engagement with Grindr,

George Arison
Chief Executive Officer

AJ Balance
Chief Product Officer

A-List

Cut Through the Noise

For many Grindr users like you, great matches—whether you're at home or traveling—get lost in the inbox. uses AI to highlight past connections, making it easy to rekindle and meet up.

Real Matches

Your best connections and high-potential matches in one place.

Catch Up Quickly

Intelligently summarizes the most important details so you can quickly jump back in.

Smart Filters

Filter your connections by “Met Up” and “Missed Connections.”

Chat Summaries Keep the Vibes Going

Conversations can get long, making it difficult for users to recall key details of all their chats. Chat Summaries, powered by Grindr's AI Wingman assistant, highlight the most important information so users can jump right back in.

For You

Handpicked For You

There are infinite possibilities on the app, so finding a match can take effort. For You means less time scrolling and more time making meaningful connections.

Curated Choices

Daily recommendations of high quality potential connections.

Personalized

ML generates high-quality profiles for every user, based on their preferences.

You're in Control

See someone who doesn’t quite fit the bill? Pass on them to improve your recommendations.

Discover

Hotties Around the World

Why just look at hot guys on Instagram, when you can find millions of gays on Grindr and actually chat with them?

With the new Discover tab, you can browse and connect with the hottest and most compatible profiles from across the world and actually shoot your shot.

Global Reach

Browse profiles from all geographies, not just nearby, for potential connections.

Multi-Intent

Meet people for multiple intents – e.g. before you travel, or for a date.

Smart Recommendations

Personalized based on AI/ML that learns as you browse.

Media Rich

A browsing experience designed to arouse the senses.

Explore Heatmap

Find the Action. Anywhere.

Grindr already lets you explore the globe, but knowing where to drop the pin can be a challenge. The Explore Heatmap lets you discover the world’s liveliest gayborhoods and the users that call them home.

Easy Exploration

The heatmap shows density of Grindr users, making exploring the gayborhood easier and more engaging.

Global Hotspots

Users can quickly identify lively hotspots in specific neighborhoods or districts.

Prioritizing Privacy

Designed with privacy in mind.

We are continuously looking for ways to innovate our products and features in order to best serve our users. Through this robust and ambitious roadmap, we at Grindr are thrilled to offer users a broader and more personalized app facilitating meaningful connections and exploration of the Global Gayborhood.