By now, most of you might be used to right swipes and left swipes.

Who swiped first?

If you’re old school when it comes to dating apps, then you must be familiar with (who happens to own Tinder).

Tinder dating app

So turns out, Tinder is suing Bumble for patent infringement and misuse of intellectual property. 

Now if you’re unfamiliar with Bumble, this dating app came 2 years after Tinder and basically have the same swiping concept. The main difference is that Bumble gives women the power.

Once two people swipe right on each other, the woman has 24 hours to text her counterpart. If she doesn’t, then the match disappears. Essentially, the ball’s in the girl’s court.

As you probably must have assumed by now, Tinder claims that Bumble copied Tinder’s “world changing” swiping premise. To make matters worse, the founder and CEO of Bumble was a co-founder at Tinder.

Whitney Wolfe - Bumble CEO


The response

Turns out, there are rumors that Match tried investing in Bumble a couple of times but the latter kept rejecting them. As a response to the lawsuit, the folks at Bumble came up with a pretty witty few lines.

Dear Match Group,










We wish you the best, but consider yourselves blocked.


I clapped for a minute when I first read this.

To add some actual injury to the insult, Bumble filed their own lawsuit demanding $400 million. Essentially, they asked their bully to pay back.

But uh


The irony lies in that the folks who own Tinder are suing Bumble for copying their swiping idea, but in February of this year, Tinder announced that they’re launching the “ladies first” feature soon, where women can choose when to start a conversation.

The main “difference” is that unlike Bumble, the women of Tinder can actually turn this setting on or off.

With over 100 million downloads compared to Bumble’s 26 million users, Tinder has really tried to either buy or eliminate the competition. Which dating app do you see winning this one?