Online dating websites and apps usage in France 2018, by type
Online dating services use
More generally, 38 percent of French appear to have ever used online dating sites or apps in 2019. Furthermore, the results from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey from early 2019 indicate that the most used paid online dating services were Badoo (42 percent of respondents) and Meetic (33 percent) in France.
Meeting through online dating
It seems that among users of online datings websites or apps, 20 percent stated in a survey from 2018 that they had already experienced both romantic and sexual relationships with someone they had met online. This share rose up to 56 percent among men aged 25-34 years old and 68 percent among women from the same age group. About half of the surveyed considered it probably possible to encounter one’s soul mate on an online dating service.