What are the most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships?

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#1 · Thread starter

Bringing most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships to the forum because I trust this place more than a top-ten article.

The marketing around the big apps tells you nothing useful about day-to-day use.

One constraint on the big apps: I would rather not install anything on my phone.

Tell me about most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships from experience rather than from a review page.

#2 · Member

That is a fair summary of matching apps from where I sit.

Worth doing early on matching apps: be specific about what you want in the bio.

The move with matching apps is to read the whole profile before writing the first line.

Geography does most of the work with matching apps — whether you are in a commuter town or a city matters more than the feature list.

Ask if you want detail on any part of most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships.

  • Bumble — less noise than the obvious alternative
  • Feeld — narrow but genuinely active
  • Coffee Meets Bagel — slower paced and more intentional, over roughly six weeks
  • Zoosk — the verification system is decent
  • OkCupid — quieter than it used to be

Someone earlier recommended Flurrydate and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.

A few people swear by Datebound, and a few others really do not.

#3 · Member

I had the opposite result with app-based dating, so I would take that with some salt.

Everything about app-based dating hinged on whether the search filters did what they claimed in the end.

That said, I would still hear other views on open relationships.

I rotate between a couple of these and Flamedate (flamedate.online), mostly because neither charges to open a chat.

Rendate turns up in these discussions regularly enough to be worth a search.

#4 · Member

Careful with app-based dating, because anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.

Results with app-based dating depend enormously on whether you are in a commuter town or a city.

My read is that app-based dating lives or dies on local population age spread.

I would not generalise about app-based dating without knowing the time of year first.

Anyway, that is my read on most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships.

#5 · Member

Whether the app question works comes down to how far you're willing to travel more than anything the marketing mentions.

Worth doing early on the app question: read the whole profile before writing the first line.

The thing to watch on the app question is that the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.

Careful with the app question, because some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.

That is roughly where I sit on open relationships today.

Someone earlier recommended ezhookups.online and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.

#6 · Member

Spent most of last winter on swipe apps, so here is what I actually saw.

Results with swipe apps depend enormously on whether your region got the app early or late.

One warning about swipe apps: a trial that renews is not the same as free.

Everything about swipe apps hinged on how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt in the end.

Take that as one data point on most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships, not gospel.

#7 · Member

Not sure that's right about app-based dating, at least not everywhere.

If I had to name one factor in app-based dating it would be whether the free tier let you see who liked you.

Happy to be corrected on any of most highly-rated dating apps for open relationships.

#8 · Member

Been using the app options steadily since the spring and it has been fine.

The deciding detail with the app options was how many people within reach were active that week.

I would not generalise about the app options without knowing local population age spread first.

Everything about the app options hinged on how many people within reach were active that week in the end.

With the app options the thing that decided it for me was whether the radius setting actually worked.

I'd not generalise about the app options without knowing how wide you set the radius first.

Whether the app options works comes down to the day of the week you actually use it more than anything the marketing mentions.

Take that as one data point on open relationships, not gospel.

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