What are the best free dating apps for relationships?

Started by Noah Bennett 5 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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Noah Bennett profile photo
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#1

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

Nobody writing about free dating apps seems willing to say plainly when something isn't worth the time.

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

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

  • Whether relationships is the reason free dating apps feels inconsistent
  • Whether the matching in free dating apps does anything beyond distance
  • Whether free dating apps has real users outside the big metros
  • How free dating apps treats relationships once you stop paying
  • How the relationships experience on free dating apps compares month to month

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

Julian White profile photo
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#2

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

Watch for the pattern where free dating apps is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

Olivia Grant profile photo
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#3

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

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

Victoria King profile photo
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#4

There is a version of free dating apps that is about features and a version that is about people, and they give very different answers.

VicKing profile photo
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#5

I keep the Datescout free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free dating apps.

JoshuaM profile photo
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#6

Agreed, and specifically on relationships — that is where free dating apps either works or falls apart.

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

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

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