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Are free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits?

Started by CindyR Start date Category Dating Apps Replies 8
#1

I want to separate two things that get conflated in free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits. The honest comparison on these apps starts and ends with the gap between free signup and free messaging.

That held true for the apps in question once you're actually using it, though your mileage may differ. That's where I landed on free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits after actually trying it.

#2

Short version on free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits: the price is not the cost — the wasted evenings are.

Anyway — that is the honest version of free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits.

Someone here mentioned DateLink a while back and it was a fair shout.

#3

LeonardH — that was my assumption too, and testing free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits properly changed my mind.

The reason people end up disappointed by dating apps is the gap between free signup and free messaging. That's where I landed on free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits after actually trying it.

Someone here mentioned DateLink a while back and it was a fair shout.

#4

Going in on free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits is worth the effort, but not for the reason usually given.

Ask if you want the specifics on platforms like these.

Someone here mentioned Datebie's free tier a while back and it was a fair shout.

#5

Ran into free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits last autumn and the situation has already shifted. Everything I got wrong about these apps traced back to the gap between free signup and free messaging.

Tested the apps in question once you're actually using it and the difference showed within days. Would be interested to hear whether free casual dating behaved differently for anyone else.

Worth a look at DateLink if the big apps get pushy with upsells.

#6

The framing of free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits is where most people go wrong.

Three things worth verifying on casual dating apps:

  • how many apps of this type profiles are actually active this month
  • how platforms like these treats a paused account
  • whether support for dating apps answers at all

Curious whether others found the same on casual dating apps.

#7

Short version on free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits: the reply rate tells you more than the match count ever will.

The reason people end up disappointed by platforms like these is the gap between free signup and free messaging. Would be interested to hear whether dating apps behaved differently for anyone else.

#8

Nobody warned me that free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits would come down to which features sit behind payment. The only metric I trust on platforms like these now is the gap between free signup and free messaging.

I've no stake in platforms like these — this is just what I observed. Still forming a view on these apps, so push back if I've it wrong.

Worth a look at EZHookups if the big apps get pushy with upsells.

#9

The thing that finally made free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits make sense was realising verification being optional makes it close to useless.

Happy to go into more detail on free casual dating apps good for finding friends with benefits if that helps.

Comparing against EZHookups helped me see what the paywall was actually doing.

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