What are the best free dating apps for adults who are purely looking for FWBs?

Started by Isabella Cruz 9 replies Board: Free Dating & Apps
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Isabella Cruz profile photo
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#1

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: best free dating apps for adults who are purely looking for FWBs.

The frustrating part about free dating apps is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched free dating apps.

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring free dating apps:

  • Whether anyone has tested fwbs properly on free dating apps
  • Whether fwbs is the reason free dating apps feels inconsistent
  • Whether the free tier on free dating apps is genuinely usable or just a demo
  • How much of the free dating apps profile pool is dormant or fake

Any first-hand experience with free dating apps would help more than another list.

AnnaK profile photo
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#2

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

I'd separate fwbs from free dating apps here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Sophia Lane profile photo
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#3

Adding the Flamedate forums to the pile for free dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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#4

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

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#5

Are you asking about free dating apps for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

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#6

Depends heavily on fwbs — take that out and free dating apps becomes a much easier call.

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#7

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

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

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#8

Disagree with Evelyn Ford slightly here on free dating apps. Took me about six weeks on free dating apps before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

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

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#9

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

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#10

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datingfly threads solved the messaging-paywall part of free dating apps for me last year.

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