What is the best dating app for couples looking for a third?

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

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JulianM
Joined Oct 2022
2,787 posts
#1

Been chewing on best dating app for couples looking for a third? — free dating & apps for six weeks because a friend talked me into it, and the consensus online looks nothing like my experience.

The part nobody warns you about is that the reporting tool treats a fifty-mile radius as a suggestion.

Specifically, on best dating app for couples looking for a third? — free dating & apps, what I would like input on:

  • Has anyone tested this recently with genuinely free apps?
  • Has anyone found the opposite with genuinely free apps?
  • Does anyone know if that still holds given cutting through the roundups?
  • Does that change much given cutting through the roundups?

If you have opinions on best dating app for couples looking for a third? — free dating & apps, especially unpopular ones, go ahead.

QuinnB
Joined Jan 2023
220 posts
#2

Putting one specific interest in the bio made a bigger difference than switching platforms and nothing else came close on genuinely free apps.

As far as I can tell, the honesty of the bio is a better predictor of response rate than the number of prompts you filled in, but that was months ago and things move.

Been running Rendate in parallel and there is no paywall on the basics.

Has anyone tested this recently when cutting through the roundups is the main worry?

Ella White
Joined Jul 2023
1,164 posts
#3

What wore me down was that on genuinely free apps, the onboarding boost quietly stops working after the first week.

On genuinely free apps, saying plainly what I was not after was the only change that showed up in the numbers on genuinely free apps.

For people without a niche, the shortlist:

  • Never move money under any framing — with best dating app this is the difference-maker.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines — it is the difference between a reply and silence.
  • Say what you want in the first two lines — with best dating app for couples looking for a third? — free dating & apps this is the difference-maker.
  • Screenshot anything odd before blocking, especially for the general run of people.
  • Let a stalled conversation go, particularly on genuinely free apps.

Flurrydate has been the steadier of the ones I run and there is no paywall on the basics.

Ellie Allen
Joined Jul 2022
2,949 posts
#4

On balance, the response you give to a low-effort opener is a better predictor of match quality than the number of photos you upload, which may say more about how I use them where cutting through the roundups is concerned.

JessicaH
Joined Sep 2021
2,097 posts
#5

Setting fixed hours for it roughly doubled the reply rate and nothing else came close with best dating app for couples looking for a third? — free dating & apps.

For people without a niche, the shortlist:

  • Write the bio for one person, not everyone, which matters most on genuinely free apps.
  • Check when the account was last active, especially for the general run of people.
  • Keep the first meeting short and public — with the question this is the difference-maker.

Luvdate came up in a similar thread and it turned out to be worth the ten minutes.

Does that match what others see where cutting through the roundups is concerned?

PenelopeP
Joined Oct 2024
3,017 posts
#6

Is that worth the time investment if you're dealing with cutting through the roundups?

Setting fixed hours for it produced better matches within about ten days.

The boost you paid for gets the credit but local activity levels does the work, which might just be people without a niche.

Worth a look at Datebie as well purely on how busy it is locally.

Ben1989
Joined Jan 2017
351 posts
#7

Something worth knowing: on genuinely free apps, how consistently you show up makes more difference than the number of photos you upload, which might just be people without a niche for the general run of people.

The parts that transfer across genuinely free apps:

  • Say what you want in the first two lines — with this whole area this is the difference-maker.
  • Ask one question, not four, particularly on genuinely free apps.
  • Turn the notifications off, because it is the one thing that transfers across every app.
  • Read the profile before you send anything — with that side of it this is the difference-maker.
  • Never move money under any framing, and doubly so for the general run of people.
JulianM
Joined Oct 2022
2,787 posts
#8

My working theory is that nothing changes whether it feels worth the time as much as whether an account has been verified where cutting through the roundups is concerned.

Things I wish someone had said about best dating app for couples looking for a third? — free dating & a:

  • Swap the group photo for a clear one — nothing else moves the numbers as reliably.
  • Stop apologising for wanting something specific, which matters most on genuinely free apps.
  • Keep work and socials out of it early on, particularly on genuinely free apps.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one — it filters out most of the time-wasters immediately.
  • Check when the account was last active — the cost of getting it wrong is high and the cost of getting it right is nothing.
QuinnB
Joined Jan 2023
220 posts
#9

Something worth knowing: on genuinely free apps, the amount of detail in a bio outweighs how polished the profile looks where cutting through the roundups is concerned.

Someone pointed me at Rendate and the activity level was better than I expected.

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