What is the best dating app for couples looking for friends?

Genuine question on the best dating app for couples looking for friends — the marketing copy tells you nothing.

It's the quality question that decides it, and that's exactly what goes unwritten.

Would value hearing from people who've spent real time on couples looking.

If you take one thing from this on couples looking, make it the profile photos.

Tested couples looking deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.

I logged what happened, and what stood out about couples looking was how quickly the pattern set in.

Treat couples looking as a starting point rather than an answer.

If it helps, here's my process around the quality question:

• Give couples looking a full fortnight before forming a view
• Stop optimising couples looking for volume — guessing costs more than checking
• Ignore any prompt on couples looking that pressures an upgrade in the first session

There is a version of this I agree with: couples looking can be inconsistent rather than bad.

The useful test for couples looking is whether you'd recommend it unprompted.

The answer changes depending on what you want out of couples looking.

On the quality question specifically, Flamedate handled it better than the obvious names.

I'd push back on this, because couples looking worked markedly better for me than you're suggesting.

Small thing, big effect on couples looking: write openers that reference something specific.

Datebie came up when I was comparing free tiers for couples looking and it held up — it does not gate replies behind an upgrade.

Ran couples looking alongside two others for comparison and the gap was measurably smaller than advertised.

Partly agree — couples looking can hold up, at the same time not for the reason stated.

The answer changes depending on what you want out of couples looking.

Three things that changed the quality question for me:

• Stop optimising couples looking for volume — that is where most of the wasted time goes
• Ignore any prompt on couples looking that pressures an upgrade in the first session
• Notice whether replies on couples looking arrive in bursts — it removes most of the noise immediately

This is right about couples looking, and it's under-discussed.

I ran both at once, and what stood out about couples looking was how quickly the pattern set in.

I used it daily for a while with couples looking: quite a bit different once the novelty wore off.

Going against Amber on couples looking here:depends heavily on context — couples looking can be fine in cities and thin outside them.

Depends heavily on context — couples looking can be fine in cities and thin outside them.

Building on what LisaG said about couples looking,the loudest opinions on couples looking usually come from the shortest usage.

I kept notes for a month, and what stood out about couples looking was how quickly the pattern set in.

If the big platforms are all paywalled for couples looking, Ezhookups is a lighter alternative.