Is plenty of fish free to use for messaging nowadays?

I've spent about three months poking at plenty fish and I still don't have a clean answer.

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

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

Concretely, for plenty fish, these are my criteria:

• Whether nowadays is the reason plenty fish feels inconsistent
• How plenty fish handles nowadays compared with the bigger names
• How much nowadays actually costs you when using plenty fish

Any first-hand experience with plenty fish would help more than another list.

Read the small print on nowadays before you commit to anything around plenty fish.

AbbyRoss88, that's roughly where I landed on plenty fish too. Depends what you mean by plenty fish, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

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

One caution on plenty fish — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

I gave up on plenty fish twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

If you go down the plenty fish route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Since we're comparing options around plenty fish, Datingfly.online came up when I was looking at the same thing.

For anyone else researching plenty fish, I would put the Datewander community on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

The nowadays variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of plenty fish.

To build on NathanS's answer about plenty fish: Hard disagree on the nowadays point. That has not been my experience of plenty fish at all.

the Rendate threads is what I ended up using while working through plenty fish — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

The nowadays element is where people get stung with plenty fish, so check it before anything else.