We’re the most popular FOSS dating app now
Published Dec 3, 2024Sadly, as far as we can tell, Duolicious is the most popular free and open-source dating app. It’s a bitter-sweet realization for us because, honestly, Duolicious isn’t that great. When Duolicious was first released, it made the questionable decision to market itself to 4channers. The backend tests are almost entirely written in Bash. As for the frontend tests—What tests? Despite all this, as far as we know, Duolicious is the most popular donation-funded dating app too! 😬
We’d really like to see more competitors in this space.
The only serious competitor we know of is Alovoa, which we think is respectable in terms of its goals and the way it’s worked towards them—Alovoa didn’t even resort to advertising on 4chan! Alovoa has more stars on GitHub (490 at the time of writing, versus a few dozen for Duolicious). Though in terms of users, we’ve currently got 2.4 times as many (116,006 vs. 47,863) despite being about a third of Alovoa’s age. (Alovoa was first released Jun 8, 2021, whereas Duolicious was released on Aug 26, 2023). Horrifyingly, we’ve also got 10 times more downloads on Google Play! We also imagine that Duolicious has more monthly active users, though Alovoa doesn’t publish those stats, so we can’t say for sure.
If you know of a more popular dating app in either the FOSS or donation-based categories, please allay our worst fears by letting us know about it! You can contact us at admin@duolicious.app or join our Discord server.
