Is completely free dating possible on apps like Tinder anymore?

Every time free dating comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

Most of what's written about free dating is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

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

Where anymore is concerned, these are the free dating questions I have:

• How long free dating takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
• How much of the free dating profile pool is dormant or fake
• What the anymore side of free dating looks like in practice
• Whether free dating is honest about anymore up front
• How visible free dating keeps you when you are not paying for a boost

Any first-hand experience with free dating would help more than another list.

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

Adding Turndate to the pile for free dating, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

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

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with free dating was the opposite of what's being described here.

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

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