Dating apps have become part of everyday life and an integral part of making love connections and intimate relationships. All this is in accordance with the development of technology, which advances rapidly and brings new discoveries and solutions every day, including the aspects of intimacy and love. Intimacy is also modernizing, keeping up with the time, and dating apps are one of the main mediators of achieving the simplicity and practicality of establishing intimate relationships. The use of dating applications (Tinder, Badoo, Grindr and Bumble) and their impact on young residents of Split are the central part and goal of this research. On a sample of 171 participants, the goal is to investigate the frequency of using dating apps and the motives for using them - sexual encounters, boredom, long-term relationships, self-confidence boost and other reasons mentioned in the research. The results of the research show that there are no significant differences in the use of dating applications between the sexes and between the completed level of education. Also, regarding sexual encounters as a motive for use, there are also no significant differences between men and women. In the survey itself, only a quarter of the participants believe that dating applications are the future of intimate relationships, which suggests that young people in Split may not be ready for the modernization of intimacy. There are many aspects that should be considered when researching such a topic - time frame, geographical location, social and religious norms and values and many others. For this reason, different results can often be found, and for this reason, it is necessary to do new research with larger samples to investigate the role of social context, motives, and the very future and development of dating apps.