Is zoosk free to use, or do you have to pay to send messages?

Started by ScarlettS · ·7 replies ·Messaging & First Dates

#opener #free #general

ScarlettS
Joined Oct 2021
2,032 posts
#1

about four months of trying to work out zoosk free to use, or do you have to pay to send messages? — messaging, mostly to see whether the complaints were fair, and the useful part surprised me.

The recurring problem is that for the average user, the discovery feed shows the same faces on a loop.

On balance, the willingness to suggest meeting early explains more of the odds of a second date than which tier you are on ever did, though your area changes the picture completely where the opener problem is concerned.

The questions I keep coming back to about zoosk free to:

  • Has anyone tested this recently outside the region you set your filters to?
  • Has anyone got numbers rather than impressions for the average user?
  • Has that changed since the last update when the opener problem is the main worry?
  • Does anyone know if that still holds for people without a niche?

On genuinely free apps, leading with something slightly odd roughly doubled the reply rate.

Interested in what is actually working on zoosk free to use, or do you have to pay to send messages? — messaging right now.

James Anderson
Joined Jan 2018
2,084 posts
#2

I want to gently disagree. @ScarlettS, the profile-quality point didn't hold for me.

More often than not, how long you leave a conversation running makes more difference than how long you have had the account.

For the average user, suggesting a meeting inside two weeks improved things more than any paid feature with that side of it.

The compressed version, the opener problem included:

  • Turn the notifications off, because it saves you the conversation that was never going anywhere.
  • Set a daily time limit if the opener problem is your main concern.
  • Pick your own venue for a first meeting — it is the one thing that transfers across every app.
ReedC
Joined Jun 2018
133 posts
#3

Same experience here — @James Anderson, the paywall comment is spot on.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the match queue ignores about half of what you set, especially once the opener problem comes into it.

For what it is worth, the gap between the honesty of the bio and the feature list is where how many conversations survive past day three is actually decided for people without a niche.

Deleting everything and starting over roughly doubled the reply rate and nothing else came close once the opener problem was the priority.

Still working it out if you're on genuinely free apps.

RiverT
Joined May 2021
3,057 posts
#4

Something worth knowing: the willingness to suggest meeting early explains more of whether anything reaches a first meeting than the feature list ever did, though a friend had the reverse experience in the zoosk free to use, or do you have to pay to send messages? — messaging context.

The one change that worked was cutting the match list right down — it got three actual meetings out of six weeks for the average user.

Riley Robinson
Joined Jan 2021
527 posts
#5

Echoing this — @James Anderson, the remark about filters is the whole thing really.

For the average user, asking one real question instead of four cut the wasted time by more than half for the average user.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the verification flow ignores about half of what you set, which is the real problem with genuinely free apps.

In practice, nothing changes response rate as much as how well a platform handles reports.

AndrewL
Joined May 2017
3,352 posts
#6

In practice, the quality of your first message is a better predictor of how long a conversation lasts than which platform you picked.

For the average user, leading with something slightly odd turned it from a chore into something workable.

For a straight comparison, Datedesire if you are building a shortlist.

Is that still true in the region you set your filters to?

Chloe Thompson
Joined Jun 2022
310 posts
#7

I read it the other way. @James Anderson, the profile-quality point produced nothing on my end.

As far as I can tell, on genuinely free apps, how long you leave a conversation running does more for match quality than the app's star rating for people without a niche.

The detail that ruins it is that on genuinely free apps, the onboarding boost buries you the moment you stop checking daily.

The one change that worked was answering within a day — it stopped the conversations dying at day two.

If you want a second option, Datebie purely on how busy it is locally.

KelseyA
Joined Oct 2021
936 posts
#8

The quality of your first message is a better predictor of response rate than the size of the company behind it in the zoosk free to use, or do you have to pay to send messages? — messaging context.

Take what is useful and leave the rest given how fast genuinely free apps change.

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