Taimi Review 2026: Is It Legit? What We Found
Taimi is the second-biggest LGBTQ+ app in America by install base, and it is the one that tries to be a social network rather than a hookup grid. It launched on iOS in September 2017 and now carries 207,048 US App Store ratings at an average of 4.42, which puts it behind Grindr and ahead of Scruff, Jack’d, Adam4Adam and Hornet combined.
It is also the most genuinely inclusive of the big LGBTQ apps. Where Grindr and Scruff are built for men who want men, Taimi is built for the whole spectrum, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary users, with a gender and orientation picker that goes well beyond the usual two boxes. The operator is Social Impact Inc., and the company puts real weight behind partnerships with groups like GLAAD and The Trevor Project.
The honest catch is the flip side of that positioning. Being everything to everyone means the app is less dense for any one group than a specialist would be, and a lot of the paid tiering exists to compensate. If you want cruising, this is not the tool.
Below is how it works, what it costs, and what others made of it. Cast your vote and add your own experience at the bottom.
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Information
URL: taimi.com
Year of Establishment: 2017, iOS release 18 September 2017
Adult material on the lander: No
Mobile App: Yes, iOS and Android, plus a web version
Whitelabel: No
Target Group: The full LGBTQ+ spectrum, dating, friendship and community rather than cruising
Operator: Social Impact Inc.
Age rating: 17+
Traffic Statistics
The figures below are third-party or company-stated rather than independently audited, and we have flagged which is which.
US App Store ratings: 207,048, average 4.42 (Apple’s own data, pulled 30 July 2026)
Company-stated user base: around 17 million registered worldwide, which is a Taimi figure rather than an audited one, and registered accounts are not active users
Position: number 38 in the US App Store Social Networking chart at time of writing, one of only two LGBTQ apps in the top 100 alongside Grindr
Platform: iOS, Android and web
Source: Apple’s US App Store data
Treat the 17 million as marketing and the ratings count as the harder number.
How Taimi actually works
Taimi is a dating app with a social network bolted on, and both halves are real. The dating half is a familiar swipe and match flow with unusually granular filters: you set your own gender and orientation from a long list rather than a binary, and you filter matches the same way. For trans and non-binary users especially, that is the practical reason to be here rather than on a mainstream app where the options run out.
The social half is a feed. You can post updates, photos and stories, follow people you have not matched with, comment, and join topic groups and live streams. It behaves more like Instagram with dating attached than like Grindr with a profile grid. Whether that is a feature or noise depends entirely on what you came for.
Verification is pushed harder than most apps push it. Taimi asks for a photo or video check to get a verified badge, and verified profiles are visibly marked, which does cut the throwaway-account problem.
Practically: the free tier lets you browse, match and message to a limited degree, and the paid tiers unlock the volume. Because the app is spread across the whole spectrum, density varies a lot by city and by which part of the community you are in.
Is Taimi safe?
Taimi is legitimate, and it takes safety more seriously in its design than most apps in this space.
In its favour: verification is prominent and badged, two-factor authentication is offered, moderation is active, and the company has a public track record of working with LGBTQ+ advocacy organisations, which is not proof of anything but does mean it operates in the open rather than anonymously offshore. Billing runs through Apple and Google, so you cancel in your phone settings rather than asking the company to let you.
The cautions are the ordinary ones plus one specific to this audience. Ordinary: fake profiles and romance scams exist here as everywhere, and the usual tell is a fast push to move off-platform to WhatsApp or Telegram. Specific: LGBTQ+ users face real risks that straight users generally do not, including outing, blackmail and, in some countries, entrapment. Taimi is used in places where being on it is dangerous.
If that applies to you, the practical protections matter more than the app’s features: use the app’s own privacy controls, keep identifying detail out of first contact, be careful what you post to the public feed given it is a social network and not a private grid, and think about who can see a verified photo of your face.
Package Costs
Taimi is free to download and the core is usable free. The paid structure is unusually tiered, and pricing shifts by market and promotion, so read these as approximate.
Historically the tiers have run roughly Bronze at about $4.99 a month, Silver at about $6.99, and Gold at about $9.99, with an XL or Premium bundle above that. Longer commitments cut the monthly rate. What the money buys is the usual: more visibility, unlimited likes, seeing who liked you, advanced filters, incognito browsing and no ads.
The structure is the thing to notice. Three or four tiers rather than one is a lot of upsell surface for a dating app, and the practical effect is that the genuinely useful features are spread across the tiers rather than bundled into one. Nothing in any tier is required to meet somebody, but the free experience is more restricted here than on Sniffies or Grindr.
There are no per-message credits or coins, which is the important line. This is a subscription app, not a pay-to-chat site.
Taimi pros and cons
Pros
- The most genuinely inclusive of the large LGBTQ apps, well beyond binary options
- Second-largest US install base of any LGBTQ app
- Verification is prominent and badged, which cuts throwaway accounts
- Two-factor authentication offered
- Works on iOS, Android and web
- Subscription only, no per-message credits
- Public, accountable operator with advocacy partnerships
Cons
- Spread thin, less dense for any one group than a specialist app
- Three or four paid tiers is a lot of upsell surface
- Free tier more restricted than its main rivals
- The social feed is noise if you only came to meet people
- Useless for cruising or right-now
- The 17 million figure is company-stated, not audited
Taimi vs Grindr, Sniffies and the alternatives
Grindr is bigger, faster and built for men who want men, now. Taimi is broader, slower and built for dating and community across the whole spectrum. They are not really competing for the same evening, and plenty of people keep both.
Against Sniffies, the contrast is sharper still. Sniffies is a live cruising map with no dating pretensions. Taimi is the opposite end of the same market. If you want to know who is out right now, Taimi is the wrong app.
Scruff skews older and more community-minded within gay men specifically, and Adam4Adam is free-first with a long-standing user base among Black and Latino men. Where Taimi genuinely has no close rival is for trans, non-binary and queer women users who find mainstream apps and men-focused apps both a poor fit. For queer women specifically, HER is the more focused option.
Taimi FAQ
Is Taimi free?
It is free to download and use in a limited way. Paid tiers have run roughly $4.99 to $9.99 a month depending on level, adding visibility, unlimited likes, seeing who liked you, filters and incognito mode. The free tier is more restricted than Grindr’s or Sniffies’.
Is Taimi only for gay men?
No, and that is the main reason to use it. It covers lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and non-binary users with a genuinely long list of gender and orientation options, which is where mainstream apps and men-only apps both fall short.
Who owns Taimi?
Social Impact Inc. The company partners publicly with LGBTQ+ organisations including GLAAD and The Trevor Project.
Is Taimi safe?
It is legitimate, verification is badged and prominent, two-factor authentication is offered and billing runs through Apple and Google. The risks are other users, and for LGBTQ+ people specifically the risks of outing, blackmail or entrapment are real in some places. Be careful what you post to the public feed, since this is a social network as well as a dating app.
How many people actually use Taimi?
The company states around 17 million registered users worldwide, which is not audited and counts registrations rather than active users. The harder number is 207,048 US App Store ratings at 4.42 average, second only to Grindr among LGBTQ apps.
Is Taimi a hookup app?
Not primarily. It is built for dating, friendship and community, with a social feed attached. People do meet for casual on it, but if right-now is the goal, a cruising app is the right tool.
We are not calling it either way. Weigh the inclusivity and the verification against the thin density and the tier stack, read what others below have said, and add your own experience.
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