Are there any dating apps for free chat that don't cap your daily matches?

Would appreciate honest takes on dating apps — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

What makes dating apps hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating apps:

• Whether messaging on dating apps works without handing over card details
• Whether the free tier on dating apps is genuinely usable or just a demo
• Whether daily is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• How quickly dating apps puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• Whether daily is worth prioritising over everything else in dating apps

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about dating apps.

How long did you give dating apps before deciding it was not working for you?

Anything promising instant matches around dating apps is worth treating with suspicion.

I'd qualify this: dating apps works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

Since we're comparing options around dating apps, Ezhookups came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

Have you looked at the daily side of dating apps yet, or still on the basics?

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

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

The thing that caught me out with dating apps was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

Hard disagree on the daily point. That has not been my experience of dating apps at all.

If dating apps is the question, Flurrydate is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

Adding the Datebie boards to the pile for dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Be careful with dating apps: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.