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This Dating App Is Made by Queer Girls for Queer Girls

W hen online dating apps like Tinder and Grindr gained popularity, one group was left out of the right-swiping revolution: Queer women. Then HER came along. Known as one of the most popular lesbian dating apps on the market, with over 2 million users in 55 countries, according to the company, HER offers a unique way for queer women to meet each other online. It also allows users to report profiles that are made by straight men or straight couples looking for a threesome, two common occurrences on apps not specific to queer people. HER is revolutionary because it was designed specifically for queer women by a queer woman, Robyn Exton, who sat down with Motto to talk about the popular app.

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As a result, she launched a dating app "for queer women by queer women" called "Her. Robyn got the idea after talking to a friend who was heartbroken over a failed relationship. As she was trying to cheer her up, Robyn suggested meeting someone new online.

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The Story Behind the Most Popular Lesbian Dating App

HER was launched in with the simple goal of making the first dating app for lesbian, bisexual and queer people. At the time, there were over 40 apps for gay men and hundreds of apps for straight people, but not a single app had been designed around the needs of sapphic daters. Our founder, Robyn Exton , first had the idea for HER in when she got tired of using dating websites that had clearly been built for gay men but turned pink and packaged up for lesbians. She learned to code, quit her job and made her first test app — Dattch. For the few people that used the app, she could see the women were looking for something different, something safe, intentional, easy to use and sapphic from the first step.

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