Is there a truly singles app free of microtransactions?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: truly singles app free of microtransactions.

There's a real gap between how truly singles is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

My own attempt at truly singles lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

The criteria I keep coming back to on truly singles:

• How visible truly singles keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• What moderation on truly singles actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether anyone has tested microtransactions properly on truly singles
• How the microtransactions experience on truly singles compares month to month
• How truly singles handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

Tell me what I'm missing about truly singles.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where truly singles is concerned?

The microtransactions element is where people get stung with truly singles, so check it before anything else.

Disagree with Gabriel Jackson slightly here on truly singles. What moved the needle for me on truly singles was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

To build on Elijah Scott's answer about truly singles: Practical suggestion on truly singles: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

Good thread — most discussion of truly singles online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Since we're comparing options around truly singles, Datewander.site came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

For anyone else researching truly singles, I would put the Turndate forums on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

I keep the Datebound boards open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with truly singles.

Just flagging that some results you will find for truly singles are review farms rather than reviews.

Adding the Datingfly forums to the pile for truly singles, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

I've also seen Datingfly.online mentioned in this context more than once.