What are the few genuinely 100 percent free dating apps available on iOS?

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

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

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

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

The parts of free dating apps I'd want covered:

  • How free dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
  • How free dating apps handles percent compared with the bigger names
  • Whether anyone has tested percent properly on free dating apps
  • What the percent side of free dating apps looks like in practice

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

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#2

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

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

Jack Thompson profile photo
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#3

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

SarahK profile photo
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#4

Picking up what NoraHill said — free dating apps is regional first. The thing that caught me out with free dating apps was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

The percent element is where people get stung with free dating apps, so check it before anything else.

Mila Jordan profile photo
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#5

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

Worth splitting free dating apps into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

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#6

Anything promising instant matches around free dating apps is worth treating with suspicion.

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#7

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

Aubrey Clark profile photo
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#8

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

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.

CharlotteH profile photo
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#9

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

The cheap test for free dating apps is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

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#10

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

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

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