Are there any free friendship sites that are strictly platonic?

This has been on my mind for a few weeks now — free friendship sites that are strictly platonic, specifically.

I would take one honest account of no-cost services over ten comparison tables.

Any thoughts on free friendship sites that are strictly platonic would help me stop going in circles.

Can confirm the point above regarding free-to-message sites.

Results with free-to-message sites depend enormously on local population age spread.

The deciding detail with free-to-message sites was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.

Happy to be corrected on any of free friendship sites that are strictly platonic.

If none of the above works for you, Flamedate — flamedate.online is another free one people here mention a lot.

I had the opposite result with the free question, so I would take that with some salt.

Anyway, that is my read on strictly platonic.

The thing to watch on the free options is that profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.

Anyone claiming the free options works everywhere has not tested it against your age bracket relative to the local pool.

The move with the free options is to treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.

Whether the free options works comes down to the time of year more than anything the marketing mentions.

The thing that kept me on the free options was how the platform handled blocking and reporting.

One warning about the free options: some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.

Anyway, that is my read on free friendship sites that are strictly platonic.

• Feeld — refreshingly direct, as of this year
• Badoo — much larger abroad than at home, though I only tried the free tier
• Facebook Dating — the account link puts some people off, at least in my area
• Grindr — efficient, not romantic, based on about a month of use
• Happn — quiet outside metros

Not everyone will agree but EZHookups — ezhookups.online has been the steadier one for me this year.

What decides free services for most people is your age bracket relative to the local pool, not the app itself.

The move with free services is to keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.

Hope some of that helps with strictly platonic.

I also keep half an eye on Rendate (rendate.site) — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.

I still use zero-cost options occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.

If I had to name one factor in zero-cost options it would be whether the match volume held up past the first week.

The move with zero-cost options is to keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.

That is roughly where I sit on strictly platonic today.

The one that finally worked for me was Datewander, after about a month of trying others.

Luvdate has its supporters on this forum, though I am not one of them yet.