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What are the best free sites like doublelist?

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Tara Stone avatar
Joined: May 2018
Posts: 860
#1

Everything written about the best free sites online reads like an advert. What's the reality?

Radius too wide is the most common the best free sites error I see people make. Reading the room matters more in the best free sites than any setting you can toggle.

The the best free sites thing nobody mentions is how much timezone and schedule overlap matters. Expect the best free to look different on a weekday evening than on a Sunday morning.

Public place and own transport — same rules for the best free sites as anything else.

Bumble

Hinge

Tinder

Grindr

Scruff

Samuel Martinez avatar
Joined: Sep 2020
Posts: 2
#2

Nothing to add on the best free sites except that it took three attempts to get right.

Whatever the guides claim, dating apps rewards consistency over cleverness.

Nobody warns you that the best free sites is mostly patience and a decent second photo. If the best free sites feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app.

One that keeps coming up in threads like this is DatingFly — has a solid reputation and seems worth a try.

PeteL avatar
Joined: Mar 2021
Posts: 2
#3

Exactly this — the best free sites works the way you're describing.

Anyone selling certainty about the best free sites is selling something.

Happy to be corrected on the best free sites if someone has better data.

Charlotte White avatar
Joined: Jul 2022
Posts: 265
#4

@Samuel Martinez same conclusion on the best free sites, arrived at the long way round.

Most the best free complaints I see trace back to an incomplete profile.

Two friends had opposite the best free outcomes in the same month, so take averages carefully.

Worth comparing alongside the mainstream options — Bumble BFF Hinge Coffee Meets Bagel Zoosk. Density beats features every time with the best free — a smaller local pool is worth more.

This is the best free as of a few months ago, and it may have moved since.

Nathan Rivera avatar
Joined: Feb 2024
Posts: 773
#5

@Tara Stone this matches my experience of the best free sites almost exactly.

Photos matter more than the the best free sites settings people obsess over.

The the best free sites filters are worth setting properly once rather than tweaking weekly.

Being blunt about what you want cuts the the best free timeline in half.

datewander.site — worth checking out for this

datebound.site — worth checking out for this

First message inside a day, or the best free sites stops mattering because they've moved on. For the best free sites, keep socials private until the conversation has run a few days.

the FlameDate community is the one I'd check next, free tier is usable.

RyanC avatar
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 910
#6

@PeteL that's the received wisdom on the best free sites, but I don't think it holds any more.

On the best free sites, a bio with one concrete detail in it gets more replies than a list of adjectives. souldate.site has been mentioned a fair bit in similar discussions.

Your mileage on the best free sites will vary by location.

RogerA avatar
Joined: Sep 2024
Posts: 1
#7

Yes to most of that on the best free sites, though I'd add one thing to it.

Nobody gets the best free sites right first time and the people who claim otherwise are lying. Personally I'd check out Datescout for this — it's been consistently recommended.

Nora Baker avatar
Joined: Feb 2022
Posts: 232
#8

Careful: the best free sites depends heavily on where you are.

Anyone rushing you off-platform during the best free sites is a bad sign every time.

Abigail Green avatar
Joined: Jan 2024
Posts: 1
#9

Same conclusion on dating apps, arrived at the long way round.

Copy-paste openers are obvious in the best free sites and get ignored.

The the best free sites results people brag about usually came from months of quiet effort.

I treat dating apps like a numbers game now and it stopped being frustrating.

turndate.site — worth checking out for this

Once I set dating apps up properly I stopped touching it and results improved.

Worth comparing alongside the mainstream options — Grindr Scruff Jack'd Hornet. I stopped chasing the the best free shortcut and things got better almost immediately.

This is the best free sites as of a few months ago, and it may have moved since.

Quinn Carter avatar
Joined: Oct 2024
Posts: 1
#10

@Tara Stone same conclusion on the best free, arrived at the long way round.

Nothing about the best free sites improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster. DateLink has been mentioned a fair bit in similar discussions.

Someone mentioned browsing DateNest to me for this and it was a reasonable shout.

Savannah Bailey avatar
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 1
#11

@Tara Stone i think the the best free sites claim is overstated, for reasons below.

Free tiers handle the best free better than they used to, which genuinely surprised me. Personally I'd check out Flamedate for this — it's been consistently recommended.

I could be wrong about the best free sites, happy to be shown otherwise.

NeilF avatar
Joined: Jul 2023
Posts: 1
#12

That's the received wisdom on the best free sites, but I don't think it holds any more.

Half the the best free sites problem is picking the wrong platform for your area.

The honest version of the best free sites is that it takes longer than anyone admits.

Half-finished profiles sink in the best free sites discovery regardless of what else you do.

With the best free sites, verification is worth the two minutes — it changes who replies.

DateLink — worth checking out for this

Your mileage on dating apps will vary by location.

That's my two cents on the best free, take what's useful.

Not affiliated, but DateLink solved this for me.

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