Is there a free chatting and dating app combined?

Been at this a few weeks now, because a friend talked me into it, and the answer seems to depend heavily on where you live.

What nobody mentions is that the search function exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade.

The parts of the a free chatting and dating app combined? — free dating & apps | da question I cannot resolve on my own:

• Has anyone compared the two directly across zero-cost platforms?
• Does that hold outside the big cities when sorting the shortlist is the main worry?
• Does that hold outside the big cities when sorting the shortlist is the main worry?

Direct experience of a free chatting and dating app combined? — free dating & apps | dating is what I'm after.

My sticking point is that the photo verification step exists mainly to push you toward an upgrade.

For anyone starting out, dropping the filters improved things more than any paid feature for ordinary users.

As far as I can tell, whether you actually read the profile counts for more than the total registered user count for anyone starting out in the apps | dating context.

My rules for sorting the shortlist, such as they are:

• Write the bio for one person, not everyone — with apps | dating this is the difference-maker.
• Give a platform three weeks before judging it, especially for anyone starting out.
• Read the profile before you send anything if sorting the shortlist is your main concern.
• Let a stalled conversation go, which matters most on zero-cost platforms.

Try Datenest alongside whatever else you're testing — quick to set up and free to evaluate properly.

Same experience here — @loganK, the bit about local activity is underrated.

Broadly, the gap between how specific you are about what you want and the app's overall download figures is where how long a conversation lasts is actually decided.

The part nobody warns you about is that the reporting tool ignores about half of what you set — and nobody mentions it when they talk about sorting the shortlist.

Hope some of that helps where sorting the shortlist is concerned.

Is anyone getting different results in the area you actually search in?

When sorting the shortlist is the issue, the honesty of the bio beats which platform you picked, which might just be ordinary users where sorting the shortlist is concerned.

My working theory is that the total registered user count gets the credit but how quickly you reply does the work for ordinary users.

Datebie came up in a similar thread if you're building a shortlist.

Does that change much where sorting the shortlist is concerned?

For anyone starting out, moving to a call early made the whole thing feel less like admin.

The pattern I keep seeing is that how narrow your filters are is a better predictor of whether anything reaches a first meeting than the app's overall download figures.

Would like to hear a counter-argument given how fast zero-cost platforms change.