Bumble launches in-app recommendation hub for daters

At the moment, Bumble launches an in-app courting recommendation hub with content material from courting and relationship specialists.

The courting app the place “girls make the primary transfer” has had a tumultuous time currently. Final yr, Bumble revamped the “first transfer” with Opening Strikes, a manner for males to message girls first on the app. Then-CEO Lidiane Jones stated this was caused by consumer suggestions about courting app exhaustion — one thing that daters have been complaining about for years.

Initially of 2025, Bumble founder and authentic CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd introduced she was coming again to guide the app. Final month, Bumble introduced a layoff of 30 p.c of its workers, signalling penalties for ongoing courting app fatigue.

Now, Bumble will launch 20 items of unique recommendation content material from specialists Jillian Turecki, Shan Boodram, and Kier Gaines, together with each articles and movies. From a screenshot shared with Mashable, it seems just like the hub may also have content material displayed in a format much like Instagram tales. Themes embrace being your self on the app, shifting from the app to IRL, self-love, first dates, and connecting with others. Bumble’s press launch states that this “marks a broader evolution in Bumble’s method — mixing know-how with human perception.”

Seeing as daters wish to meet one another in-person however do not understand how (from 10 daters Mashable spoke to earlier this yr), it is sensible that Bumble desires to lean into the “human” facet of courting. It additionally makes Bumble stand out as, in recent times, courting apps have blended collectively as they copy distinct options from one another. At a time when courting apps are including an increasing number of AI, human specialists could also be what attracts customers again in.

Within the press launch, Jillian Turecki stated she’s excited to companion with Bumble on the Courting Recommendation Hub. “Courting needs to be thrilling, not exhausting and with the precise assist, it actually could be.”