Is there a nearby dating app free of charge?

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

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to dating app.

My checklist for dating app, in rough order of importance:

• Whether dating app is honest about nearby up front
• Whether nearby makes any material difference to dating app
• How dating app treats nearby once you stop paying
• What the nearby side of dating app looks like in practice

Particularly interested in the nearby side of dating app if anyone has been there.

Someone recommended the Datebound boards to me during my own search around dating app and it was better than I expected.

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

Hard disagree on the nearby point. That has not been my experience of dating app at all.

Emma Torres, that's roughly where I landed on dating app too. Ran into exactly the nearby problem when I tried dating app last year, and it took weeks to work around.

Counterpoint — treating dating app as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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

This tracks. Once nearby enters the picture, dating app stops being a simple comparison.

Have you looked at the nearby side of dating app yet, or still on the basics?

The nearby disagreement in this thread says more about dating app than any single answer.

RachelS has a point about dating app. The nearby variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating app.

Since we're comparing options around dating app, the Datewander threads came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with dating app here is genuinely useful — at least where nearby is concerned.