This has been on my mind for a few weeks now — how to find a legitimate inmate dating app, specifically.
Most of what I find on the big apps reads like it was written to rank, not to help.
Any thoughts on how to find a legitimate inmate dating app would help me stop going in circles.
Can confirm the point above regarding the big apps.
I'd not generalise about the big apps without knowing whether your region got the app early or late first.
Judging the big apps without knowing how many people locally are already on it is close to meaningless.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of the big apps.
For what it is worth I have had better luck on EZHookups — ezhookups.online than on any of the big paid apps.
Not sure that's right about the app question, at least not everywhere.
What mattered most with the app question in the end was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
Take that as one data point on dating app, not gospel.
I also keep half an eye on datenest.site — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.
Worth flagging with dating apps — the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
Be aware when using dating apps that anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
Geography does most of the work with dating apps — how far you are willing to travel matters more than the feature list.
Everything about dating apps hinged on whether the match volume held up past the first week in the end.
One warning about dating apps: a trial that renews is not the same as free.
One thing I would do differently with dating apps — test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of dating apps.
I rotate between a couple of these and Luvdate (luvdate.site), mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
In a smaller town mainstream apps behaves very differently once you account for your age bracket relative to the local pool.
What I wish someone had told me about mainstream apps: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.
My read is that mainstream apps lives or dies on your age bracket relative to the local pool.
Ask if you want detail on any part of how to find a legitimate inmate dating app.
Worth adding Flurrydate (flurrydate.online) to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
I have used the big apps on and off for about a year and the results were mixed.
The deciding detail with the big apps was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
Everything about the big apps hinged on whether profiles felt written by real people in the end.
Happy to expand on any of that about the big apps if it is useful.
Worth adding Rendate — rendate.site to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
Turndate comes up in most threads like this one, for whatever that is worth.