Are there specific apps built from the ground up for a secure dirty video call?

Someone in another thread mentioned specific apps in passing and it's been bugging me since.

I don't trust app store ratings on specific apps — they're gamed in both directions.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around specific apps before posting.

Concretely, for specific apps, these are my criteria:

• How long specific apps takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• What the ground side of specific apps looks like in practice
• How specific apps handles ground compared with the bigger names
• Whether messaging on specific apps works without handing over card details

If you've actually used something relevant to specific apps, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

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

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

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

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

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

I'd separate ground from specific apps here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Good thread — most discussion of specific apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Disagree on one point: specific apps is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

Practical suggestion on specific apps: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

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

Since we're comparing options around specific apps, the Datebie free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

The ground disagreement in this thread says more about specific apps than any single answer.

Adding Ezhookups to the pile for specific apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Datescout.site comes up a lot when specific apps gets discussed elsewhere.