Is there a legitimate way to do a free dating profile search to see if your partner is cheating?

Trying to settle an argument with a friend about free dating, so I'm bringing it here.

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

I've already worked through the first page of results on free dating, which is why I'm asking here.

The criteria I keep coming back to on free dating:

• Whether partner makes any material difference to free dating
• Whether messaging on free dating works without handing over card details
• Whether free dating has real users outside the big metros
• How free dating treats partner once you stop paying

Particularly interested in the partner side of free dating if anyone has been there.

This is the correct question, and most threads about free dating start two steps further along and miss it.

Are you asking about free dating for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

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

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

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

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

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with free dating here is genuinely useful.

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

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

This matches what I've seen with free dating, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

Half the disagreement in this thread about free dating is people using the same words for different goals.

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

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

Depends heavily on partner — take that out and free dating becomes a much easier call.

The partner disagreement in this thread says more about free dating than any single answer.

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

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

For completeness, Datewander.site sits in the same category for free dating.