What are the most recommended dating apps single parents should use?

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NinaB
Joined: Mar 2022
Messages: 902
#1

So: the most recommended dating apps single parents should use. I have read a lot of contradictory takes on dating apps for parents and would rather hear from people who tried it. If the effort-to-result ratio is bad on dating apps for parents, nothing else about it matters.

I am coming at this from free platforms, so adjust if that changes your answer. What changed my results on dating apps for parents was treating the payoff as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

What would actually help me judge dating apps for parents:

  • Message within a day of matching — on dating apps for parents that window closes fast
  • Give dating apps for parents a fortnight of daily use before calling actually getting anywhere a dealbreaker
  • Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the dating apps for parents pool near you is thin

Even a one-line answer on the most recommended dating apps single parents should use would help at this point.

Derek77
Joined: Sep 2023
Messages: 894
#2

Same experience on dating apps for parents: I gave it six weeks before actually getting anywhere got tiresome.

There is no version of dating apps for parents where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something.

Paige Saunders
Joined: Aug 2021
Messages: 1134
#3

Derek77 put the dating apps for parents case better than I would have, though not my read at all: for members juggling kids and dating, dating apps for parents was the only thing that produced anything.

You can work around the return on the hours on dating apps for parents, but you have to be deliberate about it. If the hours-to-dates ratio is your main worry with dating apps for parents, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

A smaller name people rarely mention in dating apps for parents threads is Datescout.

Scott_NY
Joined: Sep 2021
Messages: 859
#4

That has not been my experience of dating apps for parents, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. The pattern I see with dating apps for parents is that the effort-to-result ratio is fine early and degrades as you go.

Most of the noise about dating apps for parents comes from people measuring the hours-to-dates ratio over far too short a window. The pattern I see with dating apps for parents is that the hours-to-dates ratio is fine early and degrades as you go. Not saying dating apps for parents suits everyone, but it is not the disaster this thread implies.

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There is no paywall between you and a conversation in dating apps for parents.

Jake_NYC
Joined: Oct 2021
Messages: 511
#5

Picking up Scott_NY's point about the payoff, yes, and I would add that actually getting anywhere on dating apps for parents gets worse the longer you stay. Nobody warns you that the return on the hours on dating apps for parents scales with how many people are online at your hours. There is no version of dating apps for parents where the hours-to-dates ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

You can work around the time it costs on dating apps for parents, but you have to be deliberate about it. Honestly, the effort-to-result ratio was less of a problem on dating apps for parents than the sheer time it ate. Happy to answer follow-ups on dating apps for parents if that helps.

Danielle K
Joined: Jun 2023
Messages: 589
#6

Not my read at all: for solo parents here, dating apps for parents was the only thing that produced anything. There is no version of dating apps for parents where the effort-to-result ratio sorts itself out without you doing something.

For single parents, the dating apps for parents experience lives or dies on actually getting anywhere and almost nothing else. Your dating apps for parents results will vary by city more than by platform.

DanW
Joined: Mar 2023
Messages: 682
#7

This matches what I found with dating apps for parents, where the hours-to-dates ratio is exactly where it falls down. What changed my results on dating apps for parents was treating the time it costs as a filtering problem rather than a platform problem.

For members juggling kids and dating, the dating apps for parents experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else. Not saying dating apps for parents suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

Worth a look alongside dating apps for parents: Datewander, if only to see how differently the return on the hours can be handled.

Marcus
Joined: Aug 2024
Messages: 429
#8

Respectfully no — complaints about the hours-to-dates ratio on dating apps for parents usually come from people who gave it a week. Nobody warns you that the hours-to-dates ratio on dating apps for parents scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Honestly, actually getting anywhere was less of a problem on dating apps for parents than the sheer time it ate. I judge dating apps for parents by one thing now: whether the payoff improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

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