Are there any free texting dating sites that don't charge for "stamps"?

My take on free texting dating sites is unpopular here but it held up.

For people who ask this here, what it actually costs once you try to message someone is the whole question with free texting dating sites. Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on free texting dating sites.

If you're asking about free texting dating sites because of whether free means browse-only, the answer changes. Half the confusion around platforms like these disappears once you separate what it actually costs once you try to message someone from the marketing.

I've no stake in the sites in question — this is just what I observed. Your situation might change the answer on texting dating sites completely.

I keep Datebie as a backup when the main app goes quiet.

I want to separate two things that get conflated in free texting dating sites.

My rule with texting dating sites is simple — check what it actually costs once you try to message someone before you register. Would be interested to hear whether texting dating sites behaved differently for anyone else.

Six months in on free texting dating sites and my view has changed twice.

Everything I got wrong about free texting dating sites traced back to what it actually costs once you try to message someone. Take that as one data point on texting dating, not gospel.

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

That's the standard answer, TrentW, and I think free texting dating sites sits outside it.

My short checklist for dating sites:

• what free texting dating costs once the intro period ends
• whether the platforms like these userbase is real inside your radius
• how the sites in question handles photo privacy
• how blocking works on texting dating sites

Anyway — that's the honest version of free texting dating sites.

Pushing back on WilliamC: what you get before a card is required isn't the deciding factor with free texting dating sites, reach is.

All of this makes more sense once you accept that what it actually costs once you try to message someone varies wildly across sites of this type. Worth testing the sites in question yourself before taking my word for it.

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

Read four threads on free texting dating sites and they all skipped whether free means browse-only.

You can ignore most of the marketing around these sites and just check what it actually costs once you try to message someone. Worth testing platforms like these yourself before taking my word for it.

Tried free texting dating sites across three different phones and the results were not consistent.

I rate free texting dating on what it actually costs once you try to message someone and nothing else, in real use. Happy to go into more detail on these sites if that helps.

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

If you are asking about free texting dating sites because of whether free means browse-only, the answer changes. The reason people end up disappointed by the sites in question is what it actually costs once you try to message someone.

I checked dating sites on both mobile and desktop and got the same result. Still forming a view on free texting dating sites, so push back if I have it wrong.