Are there any strictly local dating apps that only match you with people within a 5-mile radius?

Started by EmmaT92 7 replies Board: Local Dating
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#1

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

Half the discussion around local dating app is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around local dating app before posting.

The criteria I keep coming back to on local dating app:

  • How visible local dating app keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
  • How quickly local dating app puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
  • Whether radius makes any material difference to local dating app
  • How local dating app handles radius compared with the bigger names

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

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#2

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

Depends heavily on radius — take that out and local dating app becomes a much easier call.

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#3

The radius disagreement in this thread says more about local dating app than any single answer.

Have you looked at the radius side of local dating app yet, or still on the basics?

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#4

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

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#5

For anyone else researching local dating app, I would put Datewander on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

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#6

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about local dating app points back to local density.

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#7

CharlotteH has a point about local dating app. Agreed, and specifically on radius — that is where local dating app either works or falls apart.

Watch for the pattern where local dating app is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

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#8

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebie threads solved the messaging-paywall part of local dating app for me last year.

For completeness, Luvdate.site sits in the same category for local dating app.

Join SoulDate to follow more threads about radius

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