What is the absolute best dating app for guys to find real connections?

Started by StephC 7 replies Board: Dating Apps & Reviews
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#1

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

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

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

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

  • How the connections experience on best dating app compares month to month
  • Whether the best dating app experience holds up after the first fortnight
  • Whether best dating app is honest about connections up front
  • How best dating app treats connections once you stop paying
  • Whether the matching in best dating app does anything beyond distance

Particularly interested in the connections side of best dating app if anyone has been there.

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#2

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

HenryM profile photo
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#3

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

Ben1989 profile photo
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#4

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

The connections angle you raise is the part most threads on best dating app skip entirely.

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#5

Adding the Datingfly community to the pile for best dating app, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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#6

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

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#7

HenryM has a point about best dating app. Counterpoint — treating best dating app as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

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

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#8

For best dating app, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

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