What are the best video dating apps for free that don't lag?

Every time dating apps comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

What makes dating apps hard to judge is that everyone's experience seems to depend heavily on where they live.

I gave dating apps about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

Specifically, on dating apps, the things I actually care about are:

• What the video side of dating apps looks like in practice
• Whether video is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• Whether video makes any material difference to dating apps
• Whether dating apps is honest about video up front
• How much video actually costs you when using dating apps

Particularly interested in the video side of dating apps if anyone has been there.

If you go down the dating apps route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

Hard disagree on the video point. That has not been my experience of dating apps at all.

Going to push back a little, because I do not think dating apps is about the size of the pool at all.

The video disagreement in this thread says more about dating apps than any single answer.

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

For context on dating apps: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Which parts of dating apps have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

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

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

the Datelink boards is what I ended up using while working through dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

For me the video side of dating apps was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

Someone will probably mention Datedesire.online before this thread is done.