Why do some people say dating apps don t work for average guys?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — some people say dating apps don t work for average guys, and where people actually land on it.

Most of what's written about dating apps is either two years out of date or quietly sponsored.

Concretely, for dating apps, these are my criteria:

• Whether anyone has tested average properly on dating apps
• Whether average makes any material difference to dating apps
• How the average experience on dating apps compares month to month
• Whether dating apps is honest about average up front

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

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

Both things can be true about dating apps: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

I'd separate average from dating apps here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

The average angle you raise is the part most threads on dating apps skip entirely.

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

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

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

HannahM22 has a point about dating apps. Read the small print on average before you commit to anything around dating apps.

Agreed, and specifically on average — that is where dating apps either works or falls apart.

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

Hard disagree on the average point. That has not been my experience of dating apps at all.

The average element is where people get stung with dating apps, so check it before anything else.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about dating apps, at least judging by the average side of it.

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

Datewander.site comes up a lot when dating apps gets discussed elsewhere.