What are the best free gay dating apps?

Been at this the last couple of months now, after rewriting my profile for the third time, and a couple of things stood out.

The part nobody warns you about is that the reporting tool makes it impossible to tell live accounts from dead ones — and nobody mentions it when they talk about picking one and committing.

Where I would value another read, particularly for men seeking men:

• Does anyone know if that still holds when picking one and committing is the main worry?
• Is that still true in somewhere outside the capitals?
• Is anyone getting different results where picking one and committing is concerned?
• Does that hold outside the big cities for men seeking men?
• Has that changed since the last update if you are dealing with picking one and committing?

Leading with something slightly odd made conversations last past the first exchange, which surprised me.

Direct experience of best free gay dating apps? — niche & community dating | datingfly comm is what I am after.

Strongly agree — @elijahM, the timing observation matches my experience.

The pattern I keep seeing is that on genuinely free apps, whether you actually read the profile has a bigger effect on the proportion of real accounts you see than the marketing on the homepage.

The part nobody warns you about is that for men seeking men, the account activity indicator quietly stops working after the first week.

Curious what others found if you're on genuinely free apps.

Echoing this — @Samantha Clark, the argument about verification held up in my case too.

In practice, the amount of detail in a bio does more for how long a conversation lasts than which platform you picked.

If you want a second option, Flurrydate if you're testing a few at once.

The bit that keeps catching me out is that the reporting tool resets every time the app updates — and nobody mentions it when they talk about picking one and committing.

In practice, how quickly you reply explains more of how many replies you get in a week than which platform you picked ever did for gay men.

Adding Turndate to the list and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

That is my read, not gospel for anyone in gay men.

That tracks — @Zoe Wright, the note on genuinely free apps is the whole thing really.

The detail that ruins it is that the recommendation engine surfaces profiles that have not been touched in months.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the gap between how consistently you show up and which tier you're on is where how long a conversation lasts is actually decided.

I'd add Luvdate and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

Putting one specific interest in the bio cut the wasted time by more than half and nothing else came close.

The pattern I keep seeing is that nothing changes the proportion of real accounts you see as much as how narrow your filters are for gay men.

EZHookups has been the steadier of the ones I run and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

For men seeking men, picking one platform and sticking with it cut the wasted time by more than half.