Dating apps are many things: they can set you up with the potential chosen one, but they can also be a pool filled with cheaters and scammers. And Bumble, a makeover of the famous Tinder, is quickly gaining popularity by hyping secrecy.

While some dating apps claim that they’re private, we find that there’re still ways you can find someone’s secret dating profiles, so many users begin to wonder if that’s also the case for Bumble.

Can you search people on Bumble?

Officially, Bumble doesn’t let you search for a specific person. According to the documentation, it’s designed to “help you make brand new connections”¹. And during our research, we found that most of the dating profile search services (including popular ones like Spokeo and Truthfinder) don’t provide records on Bumble. In other words, it’s unlikely you will be able to search someone on Bumble, with or without third party tools.

Unlike Tinder, Bumble looks more exclusive as the user profiles are not open to the public. And trying with the phone number is a dead end — it won’t tell you if the number is registered or not, let alone an email address.

If you just met a new date that seems too good to be true, or are suspecting your partner is secretly seeing someone, you can use the methods below to look up their secret dating profiles.

How to find someone’s secret dating profiles

1. Find dating profiles with TruthFinder

You can use people search engines to run a dating profile search. A simple search on these websites could dig up significant more info than you can ever find on Google.

And when it comes to finding someone’s dating profiles, you may want to make TruthFinder your first stop. It’s one of the few people search engines that scour data from the deep web. By looking up the person’s name, you may see photos, alternative phone numbers and their profiles on 50+ social networks.

1. Open the TruthFinder search page.
2. Enter the person’s name and click Search.
   
3. Wait for TruthFinder to search its data sources. Once it locates a match, you can subscribe to a plan to see all the available information of the person. The report may reveal the person’s online profiles on 50+ social networks (including dating sites).
   

2. Find secret dating profiles with Social Catfish

Social Catfish is an online dating investigation service that collects public data from dozens of social networks (including dating sites). It provides a dating profile search portal that allows you to search almost anyone with just a name or a phone number.

Step 1: Go to Social Catfish.

Step 2: Enter that person’s full name and click Search.

Step 3: Wait for Social Catfish to search the databases. Once it finds a match, unlock the report and you’ll see all the available information, which usually include photos and profiles on multiple dating platforms.

3. Search 55+ social profiles with BeenVerified

As a leading people search engine, BeenVerified is one of the best options that gives you extensive info about a person. By sourcing millions of records from various social networks, it allows you to search someone’s online profiles with just a name, email or phone number.

1. Go to the BeenVerified search page.
2. Enter the real name and hit SEARCH. (You can also choose to search by phone or email.)
   
3. Wait a few minutes when BeenVerified searches billions of records. Once it finds a match, it’ll generate a report containing all the available online profiles.
   

4. Track digital footprint with Spokeo

The prototype of Spokeo is a social media aggregator (spiderbot), which explains why Spokeo allows you to find people on over 120 social networks, including some popular dating sites like Tinder, Match and POF. And thanks to the huge database, Spokeo gives you other information such as target’s phone number, address and criminal records.

Here’s how to search dating profiles on Spokeo:

1. Go to the Spokeo search page.
2. Enter the name, phone number or email address and click SEARCH NOW.
   
3. Wait for Spokeo to search its databases. Once completed, you can see all the social media profiles Spokeo found.
   

5. Look for traces on social media & Tinder

If you don’t have the courage to ask directly, you can also try looking for clues on social media. You can look through comments and posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and check if there’re anything relating to online dating.

Or you can try a different angle. If a person is on Bumble, chances are he’s on Tinder as well. It’s much easier to find someone on Tinder—you can check that during the sign up process on Tinder with the person’s email. If that person is on Tinder, it’ll tell you the email address already exists.

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1. Bumble. (n.d.) Can I search for a specific person on Bumble https://bumble.com/en-us/help/can-i-search-for-a-specific-person-on-bumble ↩︎