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What is the best friends dating app?

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Diana Lane avatar
Joined: Jul 2025
Posts: 2
#1

Coming back to the best friends dating after a year away — has anything actually changed?

Being blunt about what you want cuts the the best friends dating timeline in half. If the best friends dating app feels like work, the filters are probably wrong rather than the app.

Reading the room matters more in the best friends dating app than any setting you can toggle. Most the best friends dating app complaints I see trace back to an incomplete profile.

I would rather have five real the best friends conversations than fifty dead matches.

Nothing about the best friends dating app improved for me until I stopped optimising and started replying faster.

OkCupid

Match.com

eHarmony

Plenty of Fish

Victoria Hill avatar
Joined: Jun 2018
Posts: 2
#2

I've seen the best friends fail exactly the way you're saying it works.

I treat the best friends dating like a numbers game now and it stopped being frustrating.

Whatever the guides claim, the best friends dating app rewards consistency over cleverness.

Radius too wide is the most common dating apps error I see people make. The honest version of the best friends is that it takes longer than anyone admits.

Nobody warns you that the best friends dating app is mostly patience and a decent second photo.

Lily Adams avatar
Joined: Jan 2024
Posts: 2
#3

Seconding this — the best friends dating matched what I saw over about six months.

Two friends had opposite the best friends outcomes in the same month, so take averages carefully. Once I set the best friends dating up properly I stopped touching it and results improved.

Would like to hear from anyone on the other side of the best friends dating app.

Not affiliated, but DateWander's free tier solved this for me.

Ella Young avatar
Joined: Jul 2023
Posts: 3
#4

@Victoria Hill everyone repeats that about the best friends dating app and I've never seen evidence for it.

Half-finished profiles sink in the best friends dating app discovery regardless of what else you do. My the best friends turning point was writing a bio a real person would answer.

what LuvDate does is the one I'd check next, free tier is usable.

PatrickD avatar
Joined: Aug 2022
Posts: 546
#5

@Lily Adams agreed, and the best friends is more obvious once you've used it a while.

Anyone selling certainty about the best friends dating is selling something.

Anything to do with the best friends dating is region-dependent, so results elsewhere may differ.

For contrast, look at how what DateNest does does it.

For contrast, look at how over on RenDate does it.

Elizabeth Walker avatar
Joined: May 2019
Posts: 1
#6

Right on the best friends dating app, though it took me longer to work that out.

With the best friends dating app, verification is worth the two minutes — it changes who replies.

Public place and own transport — same rules for the best friends dating app as anything else.

The dating apps thing nobody mentions is how much timezone and schedule overlap matters.

DateNest — gets recommended fairly often in these threads

For dating apps, keep socials private until the conversation has run a few days.

Small sample on my end for the best friends dating, so weight that accordingly.

DateBie (free to join) came up when I asked the same thing elsewhere.

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