Tinder Rival 'Bumble' App Launches in India with Hindi Language Option

Bumble, a location-based and female-first social and dating app, has been launched in India on Thursday by its founder Whitney Wolfe Herd and celebrity actor Priyanka Chopra, who is Bumble India's investor as well as brand ambassador of Bumble's India campaign.

The app is now available in India and interestingly have Hindi language option too.

The launch was done lavishingly with a private dinner party at Gramercy Park Hotel in New York, hosted by Whitney Wolfe and Priyanka together, reported the Quint.

Priyanka Chopra and Whitney Wolfe Herd in a self-hosted private dinner party. (Image -: Instagram)

Touted as "Feminist App", Bumble is dedicated to empowering women and ending misogyny around the globe, the social network by women, for everyone, boasts of three different modes (Bumble Bizz, Bumble BFF, and Bumble Date) for professional networking, friend-finding, and dating.

Users can sign up using Facebook, and have options of searching for romantic matches. Bumble Bizz facilitates business communications; Bumble BFF allows users to form platonic friendship connections; Bumble Bizz on other hand allows to swipe for mentorship, networking, and career-building.

"The unique model of putting women in charge and employing robust reporting has allowed Bumble to achieve incomparably low reports of harassment and abuse. Bumble is a safe platform for people to connect in dating, friendship, and networking. Things change when women are in control," said the Bumble website.

Bumble was founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd shortly after she left Tinder, a dating app she co-founded and has now in legal lawsuit with Bumble .

In the lawsuits, Match, the parent firm of Tinder, alleges that Bumble stole Tinder's intellectual property. Bumble however says those claims are bogus, designed to drive down Bumble's worth and "poison Bumble in the investment market".

Bumble, which has been publicly hailed as a "feminist Tinder, is being valued at more than $1 billion, according to Forbes.

In India, Bumble will compete with local dating apps namely Woo, OkCupid, Hinge and TrulyMadly besides having head on with Tinder of course.

Bumble had a reported 22 million users as of November 2017, and 27 million downloads as of February 2018.

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India's First Gay-Dating website launched for Women

Wonderful Things Happen is India's first gay/same-sex dating website and exclusively for lesbians and bisexual women in India. The website was formed into existence in February 2014 and currently serving only Women of Indian origin across the globe.

The website offers professional matchmaking service in very private way, the interested women's information are kept privately in the website database and unlike to other normal matchmaking services where users can see photos and details of other users, here in this case no photos and details are shown to public.

Interested women has to drop an email to connect@wonderfulthingshappen.com with a brief intro about themselves. Within 48 hours, personal matchmaker will get in touch with them and schedule a 45-60 mins in person consultation via call/Skype. After understanding and determining the needs, candidate profile will be created and stored in website database and of-course privately.

Connecting and creating profiles is absolutely free, however thereafter there are customize pricing option for matchmaking services. Once the matchmaker has qualified interested ones as a serious candidate, he/she will start screening a potential matches. Notably, the website does not entertain married women but only singles.

Priyanka Singh is website's founder, a 30-year old married woman and NRI based in the US. Priyanka wanted to start such website after the Supreme court of India made section 377 of IPC sustained where under this section same gender sex relationship is an offense in India. The bold decision to build such website in India is being welcomed openly by Indian society so far, although such topic are much a taboo for society like India.

Apart from professional matchmaking the website also offers a Lounge area which is discussion forum where the website encourage lesbian/bi women and their families & friends to engage, discuss and support each other through shared experiences.