What are some dating apps like hinge?

My take on dating apps like hinge is unpopular here but it held up.

My rule with the big-name apps is simple — check how quickly reports get handled before you register. Curious whether others found the same on dating apps like hinge.

Same as CindyR, except dating apps like hinge took considerably longer than a week for me. The only metric I trust on the big-name apps now is how quickly reports get handled.

Support confirmed part of this about dating apps when I asked. The difference was smaller on the major platforms in real use but still there. Anyway — that's the honest version of dating apps like hinge.

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

The framing of dating apps like hinge is where most people go wrong. Everything I got wrong about apps in that tier traced back to how quickly reports get handled.

Someone will disagree, and on whether the userbase is active in your area with the big-name apps they might be right. Ask if you want the specifics on apps in that tier.

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

Same as CindyR, except dating apps like hinge took considerably longer than a week for me. For anyone weighing up these mainstream apps, how quickly reports get handled is the tiebreaker.

Two other people here reported the same thing about the big-name apps. That is everything useful I have on these mainstream apps.

Came here specifically because every article on dating apps like hinge reads like it was written by someone who never tried it.

The reason people end up disappointed by the major platforms is how quickly reports get handled. Anyway — that is the honest version of dating apps like hinge.

ArthurD has this backwards in my view: with dating apps like hinge, what the reply rate looks like after week one is the symptom, not the cause. You can ignore most of the marketing around these mainstream apps and just check how quickly reports get handled.

This is four months of steady use on the big-name apps, not a trial run. Did anyone else find how much of it's usable before you pay got worse recently on dating apps? Hope that saves someone the weeks I lost on apps in that tier.

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

There is a version of dating apps like hinge that works and a version that wastes your time.

For the major platforms I look at:

• whether the big-name apps lets you filter by intent
• what happens to your data if you delete a the big-name apps account
• what a apps in that tier trial converts to, and when
• what a these mainstream apps trial converts to, and when

Your situation might change the answer on the big-name apps completely.

Going to push back slightly on how dating apps like hinge usually gets described. What decided it for me with the major platforms was how quickly reports get handled.

Support confirmed part of this about these mainstream apps when I asked. That is where I landed on dating apps like hinge after actually trying it.

AlbertM makes a reasonable case but I have tested dating apps like hinge more recently and it does not match.

The order I check things with the big-name apps:

• how these mainstream apps treats a paused account
• whether messaging on dating apps works before a card is required
• what happens to your data if you delete a these mainstream apps account
• whether messaging on apps in that tier works before a card is required

I would not have believed this about the big-name apps without testing it. The difference was smaller on apps in that tier in real use but still there. Happy to go into more detail on dating apps like hinge if that helps.

For a lighter-weight alternative I have had reasonable results with Flurrydate's free tier.