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On reflection, the daily match cap is the thing that decides it, granted most of the free apps rarely say so. If you keep getting the same profiles, keep your expectations low for the first fortnight — that is where most people give up too early. When you are in a smaller town, the bigger platforms tend to feel a great deal worse than they are, which is worth knowing before you sign up. Being blunt about it, I'd move to a proper conversation quickly rather than test two platforms at once, since that is where most people give up too early. My advice would be to report the obvious fakes rather than ignoring them and then move to a proper conversation quickly, though it settles down after a while.

Despite the fact that most of the free apps look similar, the boost system differs a little, and that alone put me off. The age check and the daily match cap pull in opposite directions, which most people notice within a week. In the last stretch of trying I noticed the verification step behaving differently on apps with a strict photo policy, so results vary more than you'd think. Even if most of the free apps look similar, the daily match cap differs a little, and it makes a real difference. The boost system changed noticeably in the past six months, which changes the whole experience.

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Over roughly forty conversations apps with a strict photo policy have improved the filtering a fair bit, which is worth knowing before you sign up. Keep your expectations low for the first fortnight, because otherwise you end up judging it on a bad day, but it is not the disaster people claim. My advice would be to write a profile that gives someone something to reply to and then check the free tier limits before you commit, and it shows in the reply rate. In my experience, the discovery feed is the thing that decides it, while the ones with a paywall rarely say so.

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