What is the most used dating app globally?

Started by daniel93 · ·10 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

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daniel93
Joined Dec 2024
1,887 posts
#1

on and off for a year in, because the alternative was doing nothing, and my view has shifted twice since.

The recurring problem is that the free tier seems designed to keep you swiping rather than talking.

How long you leave a conversation running is a better predictor of how many conversations survive past day three than the app's star rating.

Keen to hear from anyone who has dealt with most used dating lately.

Gavin Morris
Joined Jun 2025
3,025 posts
#2

Going to be the dissenting voice. @daniel93, the framing around people without a niche didn't hold for me.

Saying plainly what I wasn't after turned it from a chore into something workable and nothing else came close with that side of it.

The pattern I keep seeing is that the quality of your first message is a better predictor of the proportion of real accounts you see than the total registered user count, though a friend had the reverse experience.

Rendate is another to throw in the mix if you're building a shortlist.

Ivy Coleman
Joined Jul 2025
1,480 posts
#3

Suggesting a meeting inside two weeks roughly doubled the reply rate on the free options.

On the free options, the size of the pool within ten miles does more for how long a conversation lasts than the size of the company behind it for most people.

The detail that ruins it is that on the free options, the reporting tool collapses once you move outside a major city.

Flurrydate has been the steadier of the ones I run if you're building a shortlist.

liamR
Joined Nov 2020
3,161 posts
#4

I would push back a little. @Ivy Coleman, the note on the free options is closer to the opposite in my experience.

In practice, whether it has a swipe interface gets the credit but whether an account has been verified does the work.

Nicole Owens
Joined May 2024
2,624 posts
#5

That isn't how it went for me. @liamR, the note on the free options is closer to the opposite in my experience.

In practice, the size of the pool within ten miles explains more of how many conversations survive past day three than the boost you paid for ever did.

Madison Reyes
Joined Apr 2018
2,443 posts
#6

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

In practice, how often you open the app is a better predictor of match quality than the price of the subscription, but that was months ago and things move in the this most used dating app globally? — free dating & apps | datingfly co problem context.

The one change that worked was setting fixed hours for it — it roughly doubled the reply rate.

Happy to be argued with for anyone in most people.

Has anyone found the opposite with the free options?

Mia King
Joined May 2025
1,605 posts
#7

Broadly agreed — @Gavin Morris, the point about deciding where to spend the effort is the part people miss.

For most people, how recently a profile was active tends to decide how long a conversation lasts, but people in bigger cities tell me the opposite.

Applied to most used dating, that means:

  • Keep the first meeting short and public, because nothing else moves the numbers as reliably.
  • Reverse-image-search anything too polished, especially for people without a niche.
  • Swap the group photo for a clear one if deciding where to spend the effort is your main concern.
  • Write the bio for one person, not everyone, especially for people without a niche.
  • Check when the account was last active if deciding where to spend the effort is your main concern.

Datelink is another to throw in the mix — it does not gate messaging, which is rarer than it should be.

That is where I have got to on that side of it.

jaydenM
Joined Feb 2018
1,591 posts
#8

Something worth knowing: on the free options, how often you open the app counts for more than how long you have had the account.

EZHookups came up in a similar thread if you're testing a few at once.

daniel93
Joined Dec 2024
1,887 posts
#9

Answering within a day was the only change that showed up in the numbers, which surprised me.

Nothing changes how satisfied you are after a month as much as how quickly you reply.

My sticking point is that the photo verification step gives you no idea when an account was last opened.

Worth a look at Luvdate as well and there is no paywall on the basics.

Gavin Morris
Joined Jun 2025
3,025 posts
#10

Dropping the filters made the whole thing feel less like admin, which surprised me once deciding where to spend the effort was the priority.

My working theory is that whether the photos look like the same person counts for more than whether it has a swipe interface for people without a niche.

Ivy Coleman
Joined Jul 2025
1,480 posts
#11

The thing I didn't expect was that for people without a niche, the block function throttles how many people can actually see you.

Datescout has been the steadier of the ones I run if you're building a shortlist.

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