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What are the most popular free dating apps in the UK vs the US?

Started by PaulD 9 replies Board: Dating Apps
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#1

Putting the most popular free dating apps in the UK vs the US to the group because search results are useless on this.

My actual question is narrower: whether paying changes anything.

Happy to be told I'm thinking about free dating apps the wrong way.

#2

Tested free dating apps deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

Happy to revisit free dating apps if someone has newer experience.

I would put Souldate on the list if whether paying changes anything is what is bothering you.

#3

Agreed on free dating apps, and from what I've seen the pattern holds wherever I've looked.

If you take one thing from this on free dating apps, make it the profile photos.

#4

I'd push back on this, because free dating apps worked meaningfully better for me than you're suggesting.

#5

Results on free dating apps improved once I stopped optimising for volume.

My notes on free dating apps across a few weeks say the opposite of the popular take.

There is a version of this I agree with: free dating apps can be inconsistent rather than bad.

#6

Careful with the consensus forming here about free dating apps.

Whatever you decide about free dating apps, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

Kept a tally on free dating apps since the spring and the numbers were not what I expected.

What helped with free dating apps was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datescout did better than I expected when I was dealing with free dating apps.

#7

CassandraM has this right about free dating apps —partly agree — free dating apps can hold up, which is not to say not for the reason stated.

If you take one thing from this on free dating apps, make it the profile photos.

Ran free dating apps alongside two others for comparison and the gap was quite a bit smaller than advertised.

Flurrydate comes up often enough to be worth your own look.

#8

Picking up CassandraM's point on free dating apps:i went in with low expectations, and what stood out about free dating apps was how quickly the pattern set in.

What helped with free dating apps was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.

Whatever you decide about free dating apps, decide it on your own usage rather than a thread.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datedesire did better than I expected when I was dealing with free dating apps.

#9

Hard disagree on free dating apps — the issue is upstream of that.

Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with free dating apps past the first month.

Depends heavily on context — free dating apps can be fine in cities and thin outside them.

#10

The step most people skip with free dating apps is reading the profile before messaging.

From what I've seen, opinion on free dating apps swings further than the reality does.

My notes on free dating apps for a while now say the opposite of the popular take.

My notes on free dating apps across a few weeks say the opposite of the popular take.

Short version of what worked for free dating apps:

  • Check when accounts on free dating apps were last active before investing in them
  • Set a hard daily limit on free dating apps — it is the one habit that survived for me
  • Decide what you want from free dating apps before you open it

If you want something outside the big five for free dating apps, Turndate keeps appearing in these comparisons.

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