Are there any completely free dating apps no subscription required?

Started by MadisonLoves · ·8 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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MadisonLoves
Joined Jul 2017
3,023 posts
#1

a fortnight of trying to work out any completely free dating apps no subscription required? — free datin, after reading far too many roundups, and I'm less certain than when I started.

Where it falls down is that for ordinary users, the block function buries you the moment you stop checking daily.

On balance, how long you leave a conversation running explains more of whether anything reaches a first meeting than how long you have had the account ever did.

Keen to hear from anyone who has dealt with current experience with any completely free dating apps no subscription required? — free datin lately.

GraceM
Joined Sep 2021
3,084 posts
#2

Does anyone know if that still holds when you factor in this?

In practice, the honesty of the bio explains more of the odds of a second date than which tier you're on ever did.

DustinF
Joined Aug 2018
2,746 posts
#3

My working theory is that whether the photos look like the same person explains more of match quality than the app's star rating ever did.

My rules for the which-one question, such as they are:

  • Keep work and socials out of it early on, and doubly so for ordinary users.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines, which matters most on free-tier services.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished — the platforms will not do it for you.
BrittanyS
Joined Apr 2022
2,405 posts
#4

The one change that worked was answering within a day — it changed the kind of people who replied on free-tier services.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the quality of your first message matters more than the size of the company behind it for ordinary users.

Is there a way to check before signing up in your local radius?

HunterV
Joined Nov 2020
1,873 posts
#5

Would that apply in a smaller town if you're dealing with the which-one question?

Swapping the main photo made conversations last past the first exchange, which surprised me.

If you take three things from this about any completely free dating apps no subscription required? — free datin:

  • Put something concrete in the opener, particularly on free-tier services.
  • Put something concrete in the opener, which matters most on free-tier services.
  • Screenshot anything odd before blocking, particularly on free-tier services.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished, especially for ordinary users.

Open to being wrong where the which-one question is concerned.

StellaS
Joined Apr 2023
976 posts
#6

Something worth knowing: the gap between how consistently you show up and the app's overall download figures is where how many conversations survive past day three is actually decided for ordinary users.

What I would tell someone starting on any completely free dating apps no subscription required? — free datin:

  • Write the bio for one person, not everyone, particularly on free-tier services.
  • Let a stalled conversation go, and doubly so for ordinary users.
  • Keep the first meeting short and public, because it is the single strongest signal you control.

Someone pointed me at Turndate and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

JulianM
Joined Oct 2022
2,787 posts
#7

Broadly agreed — @GraceM, the argument about verification is exactly right.

The detail that ruins it is that on free-tier services, the messaging limit treats a fifty-mile radius as a suggestion.

Been running Rendate in parallel — sign-up is quick and the free tier is genuinely usable.

Does anyone know if that still holds when you factor in — free datin?

NathanielP
Joined Aug 2021
437 posts
#8

I would push back a little. @JulianM, the point about the which-one question backfired when I tried it.

How quickly you reply is a better predictor of the proportion of real accounts you see than the app's overall download figures.

Does that change much in your local radius?

MadisonLoves
Joined Jul 2017
3,023 posts
#9

Saying plainly what I wasn't after cut the wasted time by more than half, which surprised me.

More often than not, for the general run of people, how consistently you show up tends to decide the proportion of real accounts you see, but that was months ago and things move.

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