What do you think are the top 5 best dating apps currently available?

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#1 · Thread starter

Bringing think are the top 5 best dating apps currently to the forum because I trust this place more than a top-ten article.

What I actually want to know about the app question is what happens after you sign up.

I should say I care more about privacy on the app question than about volume of matches.

So — what has actually worked for you with think are the top 5 best dating apps currently? Honest answers welcome.

#2 · Member

This matches my experience of phone apps almost exactly.

Practical tip for phone apps: message within a day of matching rather than sitting on it.

In a smaller town phone apps behaves very differently once you account for how dense your area is.

Happy to expand on any of that about phone apps if it's useful.

#3 · Member

Different view here on swipe apps — it worked better than the post above suggests.

That is roughly where I sit on apps currently today.

I also keep half an eye on Flurrydate — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.

#4 · Member

Be aware when using mainstream apps that requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.

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

Geography does most of the work with mainstream apps — how dense your area is matters more than the feature list.

Judging mainstream apps without knowing how many competing apps are active near you is close to meaningless.

Interested to see what others say about think are the top 5 best dating apps currently.

  • Facebook Dating — the account link puts some people off, over roughly six weeks
  • Feeld — clear about what it is
  • OkCupid — quieter than it used to be
  • Bumble — the structure does real work, which is not what I expected going in

Someone in another thread pointed me at Luvdate — luvdate.site and it is worth a look if you are outside a big metro.

#5 · Member

Anyone claiming mainstream apps works everywhere has not tested it against whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away.

With mainstream apps the thing that decided it for me was how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.

Your mileage on apps currently may differ, obviously.

#6 · Member

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

The move with the app options is to assume the first three conversations will go nowhere.

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

That is roughly where I sit on think are the top 5 best dating apps currently today.

  • Hinge — the prompts are the whole product, and it has been consistent since
  • Feeld — if you want more flexible arrangements, and it has been consistent since
  • Bumble — better signal-to-noise than most, though that may well be regional
#7 · Member

Going to push back on the last post about swipe apps — that is not what I found.

Careful with swipe apps, because requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.

What changed my mind on swipe apps was whether it worked without installing anything.

Not the last word on think are the top 5 best dating apps currently by any means.

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

Older threads lean fairly heavily on Turndate if you want a second opinion.

#8 · Member

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

The part nobody mentions about mainstream apps is how much personal data the signup demanded.

The deciding detail with mainstream apps was how quickly a conversation went from match to plan.

In a smaller town mainstream apps behaves very differently once you account for local population age spread.

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

Curious whether anyone else found the same with think are the top 5 best dating apps currently.

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