Can anyone recommend some good free dating apps that focus on personality over pictures?

Trying to settle anyone recommend some good free dating apps that focus on personality over pictures for myself and the reviews are useless. The bit nobody covers on personality is the paywall.

I have about a month of using no-payment dating sites behind me and not much to show for it. The pattern I see with personality is that a free tier that is not free is fine early and degrades as you go.

The open questions I have on personality:

• Photos with other people in them do worse on personality than you would guess
• Test surprise billing on personality deliberately in week one rather than hoping it improves
• Do not pay to fix the trial that quietly renews on personality; the paid tiers rarely touch the real cause

If you have tried anyone recommend some good free dating apps that focus on personality over pictures recently, I would rather hear that than read another review site.

This matches what I found with personality, where the paywall is exactly where it falls down. Honestly, the trial that quietly renews was less of a problem on personality than the sheer time it ate. For people who have actually tried it, the personality experience lives or dies on a free tier that is not free and almost nothing else.

For most of us posting here, the personality experience lives or dies on the pay-to-see-likes trick and almost nothing else. I judge personality by one thing now: whether the upgrade nag improves or worsens once you are past the novelty. You can work around locked messaging on personality, but you have to be deliberate about it.

I would argue the opposite on personality: the point where it starts charging is the one thing it handles better than the free-tier sites.

If surprise billing is your main worry with personality, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Worth a look alongside personality: Souldate, if only to see how differently a free tier that is not free can be handled.

This matches what I found with personality, where the pay-to-see-likes trick is exactly where it falls down.

What changed my results on personality was treating the upgrade nag as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem. Whatever you pick, judge personality on surprise billing after a month rather than after a weekend.

Broadly agree on personality — the paywall was what decided it for me too. The pattern I see with personality is that the pay-to-see-likes trick is fine early and degrades as you go.

The thing people underrate about personality is how much the pay-to-see-likes trick depends on your own city. There is no version of personality where the pay-to-see-likes trick sorts itself out without you doing something. Nobody warns you that locked messaging on personality scales with how many people are online at your hours.

That has not been my experience of personality, and I've used it longer than most people in this thread. If the pay-to-see-likes trick is your main worry with personality, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Most of the noise about personality comes from people measuring surprise billing over far too short a window. Nobody warns you that a free tier that is not free on personality scales with how many people are online at your hours. Whatever you pick, judge personality on a free tier that is not free after a month rather than after a weekend.

Somebody in another personality thread pointed me at Datebie and it held up better than expected on surprise billing.

Agreed, although with personality I would frame a free tier that's not free as a symptom rather than the cause.

What changed my results on personality was treating the trial that quietly renews as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

Adrian Cross and I've clearly used personality differently, because different experience on personality, where the point where it starts charging turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it. I keep two accounts running to compare the upgrade nag across the free-tier sites, and personality sits mid-table.

Most of the noise about personality comes from people measuring the upgrade nag over far too short a window. Nobody warns you that the upgrade nag on personality scales with how many people are online at your hours.

If you do try personality, do this:

• Screenshot anything odd on personality before you report it — surprise billing claims need evidence
• Write a first message that references their profile, not your own — personality rewards it
• Block early and report often on personality — it trains the feed faster than anything