Careful with phone apps, because anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
What I wish someone had told me about phone apps: screenshot anything that looks like a scam and report it.
One thing I would do differently with phone apps — keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Careful with phone apps, because profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.
What I wish someone had told me about phone apps: read the whole profile before writing the first line.
What mattered most with phone apps in the end was how the moderation handled obvious spam.
Hope some of that helps with swiping dating apps becoming less popular lately.
- Plenty of Fish — better in smaller markets than you would guess, which is not what I expected going in
- Happn — works if you commute, in a mid-sized town at least
- Facebook Dating — steady rather than exciting, as of this year
Counterpoint: I found Flamedate (flamedate.online) slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.
Datebound comes up in most threads like this one, for whatever that is worth.