Is the plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free option?

Started by AaronS 6 Sep 2025 7 replies Category Dating Apps adult dating cam sites dating apps
#1 · Thread starter

Hoping someone here has real experience with plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free rather than a marketing page.

There is a gap between how the free options are advertised and how they seem to work.

For what it is worth I am on mobile almost exclusively, if that matters for the free options.

So — what has actually worked for you with plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free? Honest answers welcome.

#2 · Member

This matches my experience of the free options almost exactly.

What changed my mind on the free options was whether profiles felt written by real people.

The real differentiator across the free options turned out to be how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.

Curious whether anyone else found the same with biggest free.

  • Badoo — much larger abroad than at home
  • Hinge — more relationship-leaning but has casual users too, over roughly six weeks
  • Zoosk — pushes upgrades harder than most, though I only tried the free tier
  • OkCupid — dated interface, decent people, though outside a city that changes
  • Bumble — fewer matches but they tend to answer, from what members here report

Counterpoint: I found Flamedate (flamedate.online) slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.

#3 · Member

Not sure that is right about the free question, at least not everywhere.

Everything about the free question hinged on whether it worked without installing anything in the end.

That said, I would still hear other views on biggest free.

Someone earlier recommended Flurrydate (flurrydate.online) and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.

#4 · Member

The thing to watch on genuinely free platforms is that requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.

If you are starting with genuinely free platforms, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.

One thing I would do differently with genuinely free platforms — keep chatting on-platform until you are comfortable.

With genuinely free platforms the thing that decided it for me was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.

Happy to expand on any of that about genuinely free platforms if it is useful.

#5 · Member

My read is that the free question lives or dies on how many competing apps are active near you.

If I had to name one factor in the free question it would be how many accounts looked dormant.

What mattered most with the free question in the end was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.

One thing I would do differently with the free question — turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.

Not the last word on plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free by any means.

#6 · Member

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

Before you commit to zero-cost options, avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.

The part nobody mentions about zero-cost options is how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.

Hope some of that helps with plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free.

Not everyone will agree but Rendate — rendate.site has been the steadier one for me this year.

#7 · Member

Not sure that is right about the free question, at least not everywhere.

The variable nobody controls for with the free question is the day of the week you actually use it.

That is the short version on plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free.

There is a decent thread on DatingFly somewhere in the archive if you search.

#8 · Member

I still use free-tier sites occasionally, mostly out of habit at this point.

The thing to watch on free-tier sites is that moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.

The thing that kept me on free-tier sites was whether profiles felt written by real people.

If you are starting with free-tier sites, give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.

One thing I would do differently with free-tier sites — use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.

Worth doing early on free-tier sites: test it on a weekday evening, not a Sunday morning.

Take that as one data point on plenty of fish dating site still the biggest free, not gospel.

For what it is worth I have had better luck on datenest.site than on any of the big paid apps.

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