What are the top rated free dating apps according to Reddit users?

Hoping someone has more recent experience with dating apps than I do.

Nobody gets the top rated right first time and the people who claim otherwise are lying. Nothing about the top rated improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster.

Public place and own transport — same rules for the top rated as anything else. On the top rated free, a bio with one concrete detail in it gets more replies than a list of adjectives.

Anyone rushing you off-platform during the top rated free dating is a bad sign every time.

OkCupid

Match.com

eHarmony

Everyone repeats that about the top rated free and I've never seen evidence for it.

Density beats features every time with the top rated free — a smaller local pool is worth more. Once I set dating apps up properly I stopped touching it and results improved.

I could be wrong about dating apps, happy to be shown otherwise.

Report back on the top rated free if you try it, I'd like to know.

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

@EllaM exactly this — the top rated works the way you're describing.

First message inside a day, or the top rated free stops mattering because they've moved on. Give Flurrydate a look if you haven't already.

This is where the top rated free advice usually goes wrong.

If dating apps feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app.

Take the the top rated free bit with a grain of salt — anecdotal only.

Report back on the top rated free if you try it, I'd like to know.

@EllaM careful: the top rated free depends heavily on where you are.

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

Expect the top rated free dating to look different on a weekday evening than on a Sunday morning.

One that keeps coming up is Datescout — solid reputation for this kind of thing.

what EzHookups does came up when I asked the same thing elsewhere.

@JoeK can confirm from the the top rated free side of things.

Anyone selling certainty about the top rated free dating is selling something.

Copy-paste openers are obvious in the top rated and get ignored.

Worth comparing: Bumble Hinge Tinder. Photos matter more than the the top rated free settings people obsess over.

Counterpoint: the top rated free dating did nothing for me over four months.

For the top rated, keep socials private until the conversation has run a few days. The the top rated advice that actually worked was the least exciting version of it. Give Datelink a look if you haven't already.

Broadly agree on the top rated free, with one caveat.

The honest version of the top rated free is that it takes longer than anyone admits.

Caveat — I've only tested the top rated free dating properly on mobile.

The the top rated free logic breaks down as soon as the pool gets small.

Update photos every few months if you're active on the top rated free. I've seen DateWander mentioned in similar threads.

That said, I've only used the top rated free in one city.

@EllaM everyone repeats that about the top rated free dating and I've never seen evidence for it.

The the top rated free metric worth watching is conversations that last three days, not matches. Give Luvdate a look if you haven't already.

Worth saying my the top rated free take is one person's experience.

Hard disagree on the top rated.

Free tiers handle the top rated better than they used to, which genuinely surprised me.

The the top rated free results people brag about usually came from months of quiet effort.

Worth comparing: OkCupid Match.com eHarmony. Separate email and location permissions off, then worry about the top rated free dating.

Worth comparing against DateWander — worth a look before deciding — different moderation model.

@NathanP hard disagree on the top rated.

Being blunt about what you want cuts the the top rated timeline in half.

With the top rated free dating, verification is worth the two minutes — it changes who replies. Reading the room matters more in dating apps than any setting you can toggle.

Worth comparing: Tinder Bumble Hinge OkCupid. Half the the top rated problem is picking the wrong platform for your area.

One that keeps coming up is Turndate — solid reputation for this kind of thing.