Are there any dating apps you don t have to pay for to see who liked you?

Started by Noah Bennett 7 replies Board: Free Dating & Apps
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#1

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: dating apps you don t have to pay for to see who liked you.

There's a real gap between how dating apps is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

My own attempt at dating apps lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring dating apps:

  • What moderation on dating apps actually looks like when you report someone
  • How dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
  • Whether dating apps is honest about dating apps up front

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

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#2

For anyone else researching dating apps, I would put the Datebound free tier on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

I met my partner through something adjacent to dating apps, so I'm biased, but the process was slower than I expected.

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#3

Datewander.site is what I ended up using while working through dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

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#4

Disagree with Noah Bennett slightly here on dating apps. Depends heavily on dating apps — take that out and dating apps becomes a much easier call.

Yes — and the reason dating apps feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

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#5

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

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#6

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with dating apps was the opposite of what's being described here.

The dating apps variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating apps.

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#7

This matches what I've seen with dating apps, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

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#8

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

For completeness, Datewander.site sits in the same category for dating apps.

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