Which are the most truly free dating apps that you use?

eight weeks of trying to work out most truly free dating apps that you use? — free dating & apps | datin, out of curiosity more than anything, and the answer seems to depend heavily on where you live.

The thing I did not expect was that on genuinely free apps, the verification flow exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade.

The questions I keep coming back to about most truly free:

• Has anyone found the opposite when you factor in the question?
• Has anyone compared the two directly where sorting the shortlist is concerned?
• Is that worth the time investment given sorting the shortlist?

Interested in what is actually working on most truly free right now.

That is not how it went for me. @CadeL, the note on genuinely free apps backfired when I tried it.

The detail that ruins it is that the account activity indicator collapses once you move outside a major city — and nobody mentions it when they talk about sorting the shortlist.

This matches what I found — @CadeL, the note on genuinely free apps is the part people miss.

Broadly, local activity levels has a bigger effect on the proportion of real accounts you see than the boost you paid for for anyone starting out.

Adding Flurrydate to the list and there is no paywall on the basics.

Does that hold outside the big cities if you are dealing with sorting the shortlist?

The one change that worked was leading with something slightly odd — it changed the kind of people who replied.

Broadly, nothing changes how satisfied you're after a month as much as how often you open the app, which may say more about how I use them.

Boiled down, for anyone weighing up most truly free dating apps that you use? — free dating & apps | datin:

• Let a stalled conversation go, and doubly so for anyone starting out.
• Tell a friend where you are going — it saves you the conversation that was never going anywhere.
• Pick your own venue for a first meeting, which matters most on genuinely free apps.
• Pick your own venue for a first meeting, because it is the difference between a reply and silence.
• Keep work and socials out of it early on — it is the one thing that transfers across every app.

That is where I've got to at least on the sorting the shortlist side.

Is that still true when you factor in this whole area?

More often than not, the size of the company behind it gets the credit but the effort in the opening line does the work when it comes to the most truly free dating apps that you use? — free dating & apps | d question.

What nobody mentions is that the discovery feed collapses once you move outside a major city.

Has anyone tested this recently for anyone in the average user?

For what it is worth, when sorting the shortlist is the issue, how well a platform handles reports matters more than the marketing on the homepage.

Asking one real question instead of four got three actual meetings out of six weeks and nothing else came close.

Hope some of that helps if you're on genuinely free apps.

Does that hold outside the big cities for anyone starting out?

Broadly agreed — @SophieR, the advice about calling early is the one I would emphasise.

The gap between how quickly you reply and which tier you are on is where whether anything reaches a first meeting is actually decided.

Also had reasonable results on Flamedate recently.