Are there any other dating apps like tinder that you recommend?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: other dating apps like tinder that you recommend.

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

Breaking dating apps down into the parts I can test:

• How long dating apps takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• Whether recommend is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• Whether dating apps has real users outside the big metros
• Whether messaging on dating apps works without handing over card details
• How the recommend experience on dating apps compares month to month

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

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

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

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

To build on GarrettL's answer about dating apps: Are you asking about dating apps for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on dating apps, so nobody repeats what you know?

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

Picking up what MateoW said — dating apps is regional first. Agree with the framing here, because dating apps really does come down to who is active near you.

MateoW, that's roughly where I landed on dating apps too. If recommend matters to you then dating apps narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Read the small print on recommend before you commit to anything around dating apps.

Disagree with MateoW slightly here on dating apps. Agreed, and specifically on recommend — that is where dating apps either works or falls apart.

It's telling how many replies here about dating apps contradict each other — that's the honest state of it.

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

Once I sorted out recommend, the rest of dating apps became much more manageable than I expected.