Are there other dating apps besides the big three that are worth a download?

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Kyle_B
Joined: Mar 2024
Messages: 377
#1

Signed up specifically to ask about other dating apps besides the big three that are worth a download. Hoping for something on dating apps for besides more useful than a top-ten list. The bit nobody covers on dating apps for besides is the hours-to-dates ratio.

Assume I know nothing beyond the obvious about no-payment dating sites. If the payoff is your main worry with dating apps for besides, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Things about dating apps for besides I have not worked out:

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

Happy to be told I am asking the wrong question about other dating apps besides the big three that are worth a download.

Garrett_K
Joined: Feb 2023
Messages: 8
#2

Same experience on dating apps for besides: I gave it six weeks before the time it costs got tiresome.

Most of the noise about dating apps for besides comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window.

My dating apps for besides baseline these days is Datewander, mostly because the effort-to-result ratio is measurable there.

ZoeFoster
Joined: Apr 2024
Messages: 304
#3

I would argue the opposite on dating apps for besides: the hours-to-dates ratio is the one thing it handles better than free dating apps.

I keep two accounts running to compare actually getting anywhere across the free end of the market, and dating apps for besides sits mid-table.

Lauren_B
Joined: Jan 2022
Messages: 600
#4

That has not been my experience of dating apps for besides, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. I judge dating apps for besides by one thing now: whether the effort-to-result ratio improves or worsens once you are past the novelty.

If the time it costs is your main worry with dating apps for besides, test it in the first week rather than the first month. I judge dating apps for besides by one thing now: whether the return on the hours improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. Happy to answer follow-ups on dating apps for besides if that helps.

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Kelsey_NY
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 144
#5

Different experience on dating apps for besides, where the payoff turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

The pattern I see with dating apps for besides is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. There is no version of dating apps for besides where the payoff sorts itself out without you doing something.

Rachel Cruz
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 431
#6

That tracks with my dating apps for besides run, which was fine until the payoff became the whole experience.

You can work around actually getting anywhere on dating apps for besides, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Anyone comparing dating apps for besides on actually getting anywhere should probably add Datedesire to the list.

Luke Foster
Joined: Aug 2021
Messages: 726
#7

I read Rachel Cruz's reply on dating apps for besides and broadly agree on dating apps for besides — actually getting anywhere was what decided it for me too.

Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on dating apps for besides than the sheer time it ate.

Ray Hudson
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 699
#8

Respectfully no — complaints about the effort-to-result ratio on dating apps for besides usually come from people who gave it a week. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on dating apps for besides than the sheer time it ate.

I keep two accounts running to compare the payoff across the free end of the market, and dating apps for besides sits mid-table. I keep two accounts running to compare the hours-to-dates ratio across the free-tier sites, and dating apps for besides sits mid-table. That is my read on dating apps for besides, and others here clearly disagree.

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