Are there any free apps like grindr for straight people?

Started by RileyR · ·7 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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RileyR
Joined Apr 2018
1,246 posts
#1

the last couple of months of trying to work out any free apps like grindr for straight people? — free dating & apps |, mostly to see whether the complaints were fair, and the pattern got clearer than expected.

My sticking point is that the photo verification step gives you no idea when an account was last opened, especially once deciding where to spend the effort comes into it.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the gap between how specific you are about what you want and the feature list is where the proportion of real accounts you see is actually decided.

Cutting the match list right down changed the kind of people who replied and nothing else came close.

Direct experience of the question is what I'm after.

GavinR
Joined Mar 2017
1,042 posts
#2

I would frame that differently. @RileyR, the profile-quality point worked in a big city and nowhere else.

The detail that ruins it is that the reporting tool exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade, which is the real problem with the free options.

Nothing changes whether anything reaches a first meeting as much as the size of the pool within ten miles for most people.

Still working it out across the free options generally.

KaitlynB
Joined Dec 2020
2,267 posts
#3

Only partly agree. @GavinR, the timing observation is closer to the opposite in my experience.

The recurring problem is that the profile editor gives you no idea when an account was last opened, especially once deciding where to spend the effort comes into it.

On the free options, cutting the match list right down made conversations last past the first exchange for ordinary users.

Nathan Walker
Joined Feb 2017
1,774 posts
#4

Same experience here — @KaitlynB, the profile-quality point is the whole thing really.

The clarity of your main photo has a bigger effect on how long a conversation lasts than the size of the company behind it for ordinary users, which may say more about how I use them in the any free apps like grindr for straight people? — free dating & apps | context.

TravisP
Joined Nov 2021
270 posts
#5

The detail that ruins it is that the recommendation engine buries you the moment you stop checking daily — and nobody mentions it when they talk about deciding where to spend the effort.

Worth running Turndate in parallel for a couple of weeks.

CadeL
Joined Jun 2017
1,380 posts
#6

Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions with the free options?

The pattern I keep seeing is that whether an account has been verified beats the boost you paid for for ordinary users when it comes to any free apps like grindr for straight people? — free dating & apps |.

Where I would start if deciding where to spend the effort is the worry:

  • Keep the first meeting short and public, and doubly so for ordinary users.
  • Move to a voice or video call early, because it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
  • Set a daily time limit — with this whole area this is the difference-maker.
  • Never move money under any framing, and doubly so for ordinary users.

Not claiming this is universal for anyone in most people.

James Anderson
Joined Jan 2018
2,084 posts
#7

As far as I can tell, the gap between the effort in the opening line and whether it has a swipe interface is where the proportion of real accounts you see is actually decided on the free options.

What nobody mentions is that for ordinary users, the block function throttles how many people can actually see you.

GraceM
Joined Sep 2021
3,084 posts
#8

For ordinary users, putting one specific interest in the bio turned it from a chore into something workable for ordinary users.

Also had reasonable results on Datenest recently.

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