What are the best dating apps for introverts who hate small talk?

Started by Natalie Bell 7 replies Board: Dating Sites & Reviews
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#1

Made an account specifically to ask this one — best dating apps for introverts who hate small talk, and where people actually land on it.

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

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around best dating apps before posting.

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

  • Whether best dating apps is honest about introverts up front
  • Whether introverts is the reason best dating apps feels inconsistent
  • How best dating apps treats introverts once you stop paying

Even a 'don't bother' on best dating apps is a useful answer.

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#2

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

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#3

To build on PatrickR's answer about best dating apps: Agree with the framing here, because best dating apps really does come down to who is active near you.

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#4

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

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#5

Disagree with SophieR slightly here on best dating apps. This tracks. Once introverts enters the picture, best dating apps stops being a simple comparison.

I read best dating apps differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

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#6

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

Practical suggestion on best dating apps: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

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#7

For anyone else researching best dating apps, I would put Datingfly on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Worth splitting best dating apps into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

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#8

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

The introverts angle you raise is the part most threads on best dating apps skip entirely.

For completeness, Datedesire.online sits in the same category for best dating apps.

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