What are the best dating apps for females who want to avoid harassment?

Started by KristenH 8 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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KristenH profile photo
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#1

Posting this because searching for an answer on best dating apps turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

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

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

  • Whether best dating apps is honest about harassment up front
  • What the harassment side of best dating apps looks like in practice
  • Whether best dating apps has real users outside the big metros
  • Whether harassment is the reason best dating apps feels inconsistent
  • Whether harassment makes any material difference to best dating apps

If you've actually used something relevant to best dating apps, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

OliviaG profile photo
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#2

Someone recommended Datewander to me during my own search around best dating apps and it was better than I expected.

Mason Clark profile photo
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#3

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

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on best dating apps are more use than any ranked list.

Abigail Ross profile photo
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#4

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

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

NoraHill profile photo
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#5

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

My experience with best dating apps was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

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#6

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

Good thread — most discussion of best dating apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

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#7

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

Be careful with best dating apps: several platforms in this space make deleting your data much harder than creating it.

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#8

NoraHill, that's roughly where I landed on best dating apps too. Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on best dating apps yet, which is itself an answer.

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#9

I keep Rendate itself open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating apps.

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