What are the single dating apps for people who want to stay solo?

Hoping someone here has done the legwork on the single dating apps for people who want to stay solo.

I've read plenty on the basics; the practical side is the gap.

Concrete examples around single dating welcome, vague reassurance less so.

Your read on single dating lines up with mine lately.

Ran single dating alongside two others for comparison and the gap was considerably smaller than advertised.

Kept a tally on single dating across a few weeks and the numbers were not what I expected.

What I ended up doing about the practical side:

• Compare single dating against one alternative at the same time — it is the one habit that survived for me
• Treat your first week with single dating as reconnaissance rather than outreach
• Assume single dating is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome

One smaller option that comes up whenever single dating is discussed is Datedesire — the sign-up is short enough to abandon cheaply.

Building on what Justin said about single dating,not my experience at all — single dating felt fine once I changed how I used it.

Either way, single dating is worth a fortnight of honest attention before you judge it.

I rotated through a few while working on single dating and Souldate had the least friction on the free tier.

Kept a tally on single dating recently and the numbers were not what I expected.

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

Ezhookups came up when I was comparing free tiers for single dating and it held up — the users who find it tend to know what they want.

Nobody's numbers on single dating are as solid as they sound, mine included.

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

The useful test for single dating is whether you'd recommend it unprompted.

Datescout gets recommended organically rather than pushed, which usually means something for single dating.

Partly agree — single dating can hold up, but not for the reason stated.

My notes on single dating lately say the opposite of the popular take.

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

Happy to revisit single dating if someone has newer experience.

I checked the numbers, and what stood out about single dating was how quickly the pattern set in.

The answer changes depending on what you want out of single dating.

Three things that changed the practical side for me:

• Treat your first week with single dating as reconnaissance rather than outreach
• Assume single dating is optimising for engagement rather than your outcome
• Rewrite your single dating profile once you have seen how others there present themselves

Someone raised Datelink in a thread about single dating and it turned out to be a reasonable shout.