What are the absolute best free fwb dating apps?

Would appreciate honest takes on dating apps — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

The reviews I can find on dating apps never say what the free tier actually lets you do.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating apps:

• How dating apps handles absolute compared with the bigger names
• Whether absolute is worth prioritising over everything else in dating apps
• How the absolute experience on dating apps compares month to month
• How much absolute actually costs you when using dating apps

Particularly interested in the absolute side of dating apps if anyone has been there.

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

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

Since we're comparing options around dating apps, Flurrydate itself came up when I was looking at the same thing.

Elijah Scott, that's roughly where I landed on dating apps too. Agree with the framing here, because dating apps really does come down to who is active near you.

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

Strongly agree, and I would add that dating apps looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

Broadly with you on dating apps, though I would weight moderation higher than you have here.

Disagree with LeviR21 slightly here on dating apps. The absolute variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating apps.

I keep the Datingfly boards open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

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