Is adult live chat better than dating apps?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — is adult live chat better than dating apps, and where people actually land on it.

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

Practically speaking, for dating apps I want to know:

• Whether anyone has tested adult properly on dating apps
• What the adult side of dating apps looks like in practice
• How much adult actually costs you when using dating apps
• What moderation on dating apps actually looks like when you report someone

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

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

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on dating apps yet, which is itself an answer.

Ran into exactly the adult problem when I tried dating apps last year, and it took weeks to work around.

To build on Zoey Adams's answer about dating apps: Counterpoint — treating dating apps as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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

If adult matters to you then dating apps narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

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

Agreed, and specifically on adult — that is where dating apps either works or falls apart.

Have you looked at the adult side of dating apps yet, or still on the basics?

A friend had a good outcome with dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Disagree with Aiden Lewis slightly here on dating apps. This tracks. Once adult enters the picture, dating apps stops being a simple comparison.

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

My dating apps experience hinged on adult more than on the platform itself.

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

What's your actual goal here — is dating apps about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

Datelink.site comes up a lot when dating apps gets discussed elsewhere.