Are there any truly no subscription dating apps?

I'll show my working below, but the short version is I want to know: truly no subscription dating apps.

The problem with researching dating apps is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

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

Practically speaking, for dating apps I want to know:

• Whether anyone has tested subscription properly on dating apps
• How visible dating apps keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether subscription is worth prioritising over everything else in dating apps
• Whether the dating apps experience holds up after the first fortnight

Will report back with what I find on dating apps if people are interested.

Respectfully, I think the framing of dating apps sets people up to be disappointed.

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

To build on Ava Mitchell's answer about dating apps: A friend had a good outcome with dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Tried dating apps properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

Ava Mitchell has a point about dating apps. This thread is drifting toward a consensus on dating apps that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Someone recommended Flurrydate.online to me during my own search around dating apps and it was better than I expected.

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

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

The subscription element is where people get stung with dating apps, so check it before anything else.