Director: Rachel Lee Goldenberg
"Swiped" turns the origin story of a hookup app into a fast-paced 2025 comedy about ambition, ego, and the messy fallout of building something bigger than you can control.
What is Swiped about?
A talented, underestimated computer programmer sets out to build a hookup app meant to fix the frustrations of modern dating, only to watch her creation take on a life far beyond what she planned. As the app explodes in popularity, she is pushed into rooms full of investors, rivals, and executives who see the platform as a business first and a solution second, forcing her to fight for a voice in a company built on her own idea. Meanwhile, the app itself begins reshaping the dating habits of everyone who uses it, for better and for worse, raising questions the film has fun poking at without ever getting preachy about them. The story moves at a brisk clip through boardrooms, launch parties, and awkward personal fallout, using the tech-world setting as a backdrop for a more familiar comedy about staying true to an idea once other people start deciding what it is worth.
Cast & crew
Lily James stars as the app's creator, with Dan Stevens and Jackson White playing figures who complicate her path through the tech industry, alongside Ben Schnetzer, Myha'la, Ian Colletti, Mary Neely, and Ana Yi Puig rounding out the ensemble around her.
Context & significance
Director Rachel Lee Goldenberg sets the film in the recognizable world of app startups and venture funding, using the dating-app boom of the last decade as a loose real-world backdrop for a workplace comedy about who gets credit when an idea succeeds.
Where & how to watch
"Swiped" can be watched on K-Time with a free account login, and this page can be browsed without signing in first. Persian subtitles are included for this title, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow the film's quick, dialogue-driven comedy in their own language.