Dating Apps — page 3

App comparisons, free tiers, paywalls and real usage reports. 1309 threads from DateBound members.

When you are in a smaller town, the ones with a paywall tend to feel massively worse than they are, which most people notice within a week. Honestly, the ones with a paywall have moved the useful bits behind a subscription, and it shows in the reply rate. What actually mattered was that the older established sites have dropped the feature everyone used since the start of the year. Realistically, if the replies dry up after one message the answer is usually to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them rather than skip anything asking for a card number to read messages.

Across a couple of different accounts the older established sites have made the free version harder to use, and it makes a real difference. The distance radius changed marginally for the better part of a year, though it depends heavily on where you live. Speaking personally, the distance radius is the thing that decides it, while sites that skip verification rarely say so. The part nobody mentions is that the older established sites have started throttling messages since the last round of app updates.

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