According to users, what are the best free dating apps reddit recommends most?

Started by Brent Olson Dating Apps & Reviews 12 posts Last reply
dating adult sites online hookups community advice
Brent Olson
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 178
#1

Every time the best free dating apps reddit recommends most comes up the thread turns into an advert, so I am asking here instead. surprise billing is what makes or breaks free dating apps for me.

I have about a month of using no-payment dating sites behind me and not much to show for it. Nobody warns you that the point where it starts charging on free dating apps scales with how many people are online at your hours.

The open questions I have on free dating apps:

  • Run free dating apps beside one other option so you have a baseline for the paywall
  • Turn off read receipts on free dating apps if the upgrade nag is making you anxious about response times
  • Compare free dating apps against the free end of the market on the same week, or the comparison is meaningless
  • Message within a day of matching — on free dating apps that window closes fast

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about the best free dating apps reddit recommends most.

TomC
Joined: Feb 2022
Messages: 609
#2

@Brent Olson makes a fair point about free dating apps, but reading this back, my free dating apps notes say almost the same thing about the paywall. I keep two accounts running to compare the trial that quietly renews across no-payment dating sites, and free dating apps sits mid-table.

There is no version of free dating apps where surprise billing sorts itself out without you doing something. Honestly, surprise billing was less of a problem on free dating apps than the sheer time it ate. You can work around the paywall on free dating apps, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Names that come up repeatedly in free dating apps threads: flurrydate.online, turndate.site.

KirraC
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 1034
#3

Building on what TomC said about free dating apps, not my read at all: for most of us posting here, free dating apps was the only thing that produced anything.

You can work around surprise billing on free dating apps, but you have to be deliberate about it.

TiffanyR
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 791
#4

KirraC is right about one part of free dating apps: that feels too harsh on free dating apps, given the trial that quietly renews is a problem across the free-tier sites rather than specific to it. I judge free dating apps by one thing now: whether surprise billing improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

Most of the noise about free dating apps comes from people measuring the upgrade nag over far too short a window. I judge free dating apps by one thing now: whether the point where it starts charging improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Most of the noise about free dating apps comes from people measuring locked messaging over far too short a window.

Aaron Brooks
Joined: Sep 2023
Messages: 313
#5

Yes, and I would add that surprise billing on free dating apps gets worse the longer you stay. Nobody warns you that the pay-to-see-likes trick on free dating apps scales with how many people are online at your hours.

If the upgrade nag is your main worry with free dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month. That is my read on free dating apps, and others here clearly disagree.

Mike Donovan
Joined: Jan 2023
Messages: 770
#6

I would argue the opposite on free dating apps: the upgrade nag is the one thing it handles better than the free-tier sites. Honestly, the upgrade nag was less of a problem on free dating apps than the sheer time it ate.

There is no version of free dating apps where the paywall sorts itself out without you doing something. What changed my results on free dating apps was treating the upgrade nag as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Take that as one data point on free dating apps rather than a recommendation.

The short version for free dating apps:

  • Fill the prompts in properly; blank profiles get skipped on free dating apps
  • Log in at the hours you would actually go out; free dating apps activity is nothing like flat
  • Test the paywall on free dating apps deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
  • Block early and report often on free dating apps — it trains the feed faster than anything
Join FlameDate Free

No card, no subscription and no trial that quietly bills you in free dating apps.

Diane_KY
Joined: Jun 2022
Messages: 582
#7

That feels too harsh on free dating apps, given the upgrade nag is a problem across free dating apps rather than specific to it.

There is no version of free dating apps where the trial that quietly renews sorts itself out without you doing something. If locked messaging is your main worry with free dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

For contrast with free dating apps I would look at Luvdate; the free tier there behaves differently.

KatieM
Joined: Oct 2023
Messages: 630
#8

Yes, and I would add that the pay-to-see-likes trick on free dating apps gets worse the longer you stay.

If a free tier that's not free is your main worry with free dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

HannahG
Joined: Aug 2021
Messages: 968
#9

KatieM and I've clearly used free dating apps differently, because not my read at all: for the crowd on this board, free dating apps was the only thing that produced anything.

The thing people underrate about free dating apps is how much a free tier that's not free depends on your own city. Happy to answer follow-ups on free dating apps if that helps.

Selena_W
Joined: May 2021
Messages: 164
#10

Not my read at all: for the members answering here, free dating apps was the only thing that produced anything.

I keep two accounts running to compare locked messaging across the free end of the market, and free dating apps sits mid-table.

Luke Foster
Joined: Aug 2022
Messages: 799
#11

Different experience on free dating apps, where the point where it starts charging turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. For the crowd on this board, the free dating apps experience lives or dies on locked messaging and almost nothing else.

Most of the noise about free dating apps comes from people measuring the paywall over far too short a window. If the trial that quietly renews is your main worry with free dating apps, test it in the first week rather than the first month. There is no version of free dating apps where the point where it starts charging sorts itself out without you doing something.

Others asking about free dating apps have named rendate.site, datebie.online, datewander.site.

Ben1989
Joined: Jan 2024
Messages: 795
#12

Not my read at all: for most of us posting here, free dating apps was the only thing that produced anything.

I judge free dating apps by one thing now: whether the pay-to-see-likes trick improves or worsens once you're past the novelty. I judge free dating apps by one thing now: whether the trial that quietly renews improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

One smaller option worth comparing on the paywall is Datelink — different pool, same free messaging as free dating apps.

More from Dating Apps & Reviews

Join FlameDate Free

Join free dating apps members who are already messaging for nothing.