What is currently the best free online dating app to download?

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

The problem with researching free online dating is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

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

Concretely, for free online dating, these are my criteria:

• What happens to your data if you delete a free online dating account
• How free online dating handles download compared with the bigger names
• Whether the free online dating experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How the download experience on free online dating compares month to month

If you've actually used something relevant to free online dating, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

Since we're comparing options around free online dating, the Datebie forums came up when I was looking at the same thing.

I keep the Datescout boards open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with free online dating.

Are you asking about free online dating for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

For anyone else researching free online dating, I would put the Datelink threads on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Strongly agree, and I would add that free online dating looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

What moved the needle for me on free online dating was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on free online dating that I don't think survives contact with reality.

For completeness, Rendate.site sits in the same category for free online dating.