What do you consider the best free local dating app for smaller cities?

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

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

My own attempt at local dating app lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

The short list of what I need from local dating app:

• Whether the matching in local dating app does anything beyond distance
• Whether the free tier on local dating app is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How local dating app handles smaller compared with the bigger names

Any first-hand experience with local dating app would help more than another list.

For anyone else researching local dating app, I would put Datewander on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

the Flamedate free tier is what I ended up using while working through local dating app — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

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

Someone recommended Datebie's free tier to me during my own search around local dating app and it was better than I expected.

Once I sorted out smaller, the rest of local dating app became much more manageable than I expected.

To build on ChloeW99's answer about local dating app: Both things can be true about local dating app: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

Picking up what Noah Bennett said — local dating app is regional first. Ran into exactly the smaller problem when I tried local dating app last year, and it took weeks to work around.

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

Test smaller first, because it tells you more about local dating app than any feature comparison will.

Since we're comparing options around local dating app, Rendate came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I'll be the dissenting voice: my experience with local dating app was the opposite of what's being described here.

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