What is the best all-in-one free dating and chatting app for Android phones?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now free dating is the thing I can't work out.

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

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

What would actually change my mind about free dating:

• Whether all-in-one is worth prioritising over everything else in free dating
• How visible free dating keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How much all-in-one actually costs you when using free dating
• Whether the free tier on free dating is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How the all-in-one experience on free dating compares month to month

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

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

My free dating experience hinged on all-in-one more than on the platform itself.

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

Adding Datenest itself to the pile for free dating, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

Practical suggestion on free dating: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

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

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

To build on Emily Carr's answer about free dating: Respectfully, I think the framing of free dating sets people up to be disappointed.

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

Emily Carr, that's roughly where I landed on free dating too. How long did you give free dating before deciding it was not working for you?

Good thread — most discussion of free dating online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

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

I've also seen Datedesire.online mentioned in this context more than once.