Is the hinge dating website usable on a desktop or is it app-only?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now dating website is the thing I can't work out.

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

Where app-only is concerned, these are the dating website questions I have:

• How dating website treats app-only once you stop paying
• Whether messaging on dating website works without handing over card details
• How much app-only actually costs you when using dating website
• Whether the matching in dating website does anything beyond distance

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on dating website.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about dating website.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datewander solved the messaging-paywall part of dating website for me last year.

Adding Flurrydate itself to the pile for dating website, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Which parts of dating website have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

To build on StevenK's answer about dating website: Going to push back a little, because I do not think dating website is about the size of the pool at all.

The thing that caught me out with dating website was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on dating website, so nobody repeats what you know?

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

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

I read dating website differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

Depends heavily on app-only — take that out and dating website becomes a much easier call.

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

For anyone else researching dating website, I would put Datelink itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

The app-only part of this is being overstated, because dating website was fine for me without it.

I've also seen Datelink.site mentioned in this context more than once.