What are the top rated free dating apps according to actual users, not just sponsored blogs?

This might be an obvious question to some of you, but I'm stuck on free dating apps.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on free dating apps and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

What I'm trying to weigh up with free dating apps:

• Whether messaging on free dating apps works without handing over card details
• Whether anyone has tested blogs properly on free dating apps
• How long free dating apps takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all

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

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

This tracks. Once blogs enters the picture, free dating apps stops being a simple comparison.

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

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about free dating apps.

To build on ZachH's answer about free dating apps: If you go down the free dating apps route, screenshot anything that looks like a scam before you report it.

For anyone else researching free dating apps, I would put Flurrydate's free tier on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Tried free dating apps properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

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

One caution on free dating apps — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.