What are the best mobile dating apps for people on the go who hate desktop sites?

Started by Natalie Bell 7 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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Natalie Bell profile photo
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#1

Someone in another thread mentioned mobile dating apps in passing and it's been bugging me since.

The hate question keeps getting skipped in everything written about mobile dating apps.

So far I've tried the obvious route with mobile dating apps and got nowhere useful.

Practically speaking, for mobile dating apps I want to know:

  • How long mobile dating apps takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all
  • How mobile dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
  • Whether hate is worth prioritising over everything else in mobile dating apps
  • Whether mobile dating apps is honest about hate up front
  • What moderation on mobile dating apps actually looks like when you report someone

Tell me what I'm missing about mobile dating apps.

LeviR21 profile photo
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#2

What's your actual goal here — is mobile dating apps about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on mobile dating apps, so nobody repeats what you know?

JoshuaM profile photo
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#3

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Datebound community solved the messaging-paywall part of mobile dating apps for me last year.

Same read from me. Everything I've learned about mobile dating apps points back to local density.

Alexander Lee profile photo
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#4

Natalie Bell, that's roughly where I landed on mobile dating apps too. Depends what you mean by mobile dating apps, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

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#5

To build on JoshuaM's answer about mobile dating apps: A friend had a good outcome with mobile dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Counterpoint — treating mobile dating apps as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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#6

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

EllaS profile photo
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#7

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with mobile dating apps weren't on the biggest platform.

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#8

I keep Datewander open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with mobile dating apps.

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

Datingfly.online comes up a lot when mobile dating apps gets discussed elsewhere.

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