Are there any completely free dating apps no subscription needed at all?

Started by MateoW 7 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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MateoW profile photo
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#1

Every time free dating apps comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to free dating apps.

So far I've tried the obvious route with free dating apps and got nowhere useful.

The criteria I keep coming back to on free dating apps:

  • Whether the free dating apps experience holds up after the first fortnight
  • Whether subscription is worth prioritising over everything else in free dating apps
  • Whether anyone has tested subscription properly on free dating apps
  • Whether subscription is the reason free dating apps feels inconsistent

If you've actually used something relevant to free dating apps, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

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#2

I keep Datingfly itself open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free dating apps.

SophieR profile photo
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#3

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on free dating apps yet, which is itself an answer.

There is a version of free dating apps that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

GabrielJ profile photo
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#4

Picking up what GracefulT said — free dating apps is regional first. Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with free dating apps here is genuinely useful.

Half the disagreement in this thread about free dating apps is people using the same words for different goals.

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#5

SophieR, that's roughly where I landed on free dating apps too. Tried free dating apps properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

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#6

Someone recommended the Rendate free tier to me during my own search around free dating apps and it was better than I expected.

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#7

Disagree with NoraHill slightly here on free dating apps. Once I sorted out subscription, the rest of free dating apps became much more manageable than I expected.

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#8

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datelink boards solved the messaging-paywall part of free dating apps for me last year.

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