What are the best dating apps similar to tinder but with a slightly older crowd?

Started by Grace Turner 7 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

I keep running into the same wall with best dating apps and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

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

Concretely, for best dating apps, these are my criteria:

  • Whether crowd makes any material difference to best dating apps
  • How much crowd actually costs you when using best dating apps
  • Whether best dating apps is honest about crowd up front
  • How best dating apps handles crowd compared with the bigger names

Will report back with what I find on best dating apps if people are interested.

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#2

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

Tried best dating apps properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

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#3

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with best dating apps was the opposite of what's being described here.

Disagree on one point: best dating apps is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

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#4

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

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#5

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

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#6

My rule for best dating apps is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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#7

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

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#8

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

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

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

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