#1
Hoping someone here has done the legwork on you identify quality dating apps before you pay for a subscription.
What I want to understand is whether it's really free rather than the feature list.
Would value hearing from people who've spent real time on pay subscription.
#2
One adjustment worth making with pay subscription: treat the first week as observation only.
If you take one thing from this on pay subscription, make it the profile photos.
If you want something outside the big five for pay subscription, Datebound keeps appearing in these comparisons.
#3
Partly agree — pay subscription can hold up, on the other hand not for the reason stated.
#4
Picking up Gina's point on pay subscription:going to disagree here — in the end, pay subscription is not the weak point.
Datedesire is the smaller name I would test alongside whatever you pick for pay subscription.
#5
Monica has this right about pay subscription —kept a tally on pay subscription these days and the numbers were not what I expected.
#6
Your read on pay subscription lines up with mine over time.
Ran pay subscription alongside two others for comparison and the gap was substantially smaller than advertised.
On whether it is really free specifically, Flurrydate handled it better than the obvious names.
#7
There is a version of this I agree with: pay subscription can be inconsistent rather than bad.
Tested pay subscription deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.
Treat pay subscription as a starting point rather than an answer.
The checklist I use now for pay subscription:
- Treat your first week with pay subscription as reconnaissance rather than outreach
- Assume pay subscription is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome
- Rewrite your pay subscription profile once you have seen how others there present themselves
#8
Going against Diana on pay subscription here:nobody's numbers on pay subscription are as solid as they sound, mine included.
The step most people skip with pay subscription is reading the profile before messaging.
What I ended up doing about whether it is really free:
- Compare pay subscription against one alternative at the same time — guessing costs more than checking
- Treat your first week with pay subscription as reconnaissance rather than outreach
- Assume pay subscription is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome
For anyone stuck on whether it is really free, Ezhookups is at least worth ruling in or out — nobody was paid to bring it up as far as I can tell.
#9
Brent, that has not been my experience of pay subscription.results on pay subscription improved once I stopped optimising for volume.
Treat pay subscription as a starting point rather than an answer.
For anyone stuck on whether it is really free, Datebie is at least worth ruling in or out — the free tier is more functional than most.
#10
Not my experience at all — pay subscription felt fine once I changed how I used it.
Tested pay subscription deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.
The step most people skip with pay subscription is reading the profile before messaging.
#11
Tested pay subscription deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.
#12
By and large, opinion on pay subscription swings further than the reality does.
Small thing, big effect on pay subscription: write openers that reference something specific.
Either way, pay subscription is worth a fortnight of honest attention before you judge it.
Ran pay subscription alongside two others for comparison and the gap was markedly smaller than advertised.