In the trans community, what is considered the best transgender dating app right now?

Long-time lurker, first post, and it's about trans community, what is considered the best transgender dating app right now. The thing that decides it for trans community is how obvious the scripted replies are day to day.

The reason I am asking about trans community at all is that the answers split by city and by year, which is why I want firsthand accounts. Where trans community falls down for me is how many active users are within range.

What I actually check with trans community after a few false starts:

• Compare how the web version differs from the app on the first evening, not the first month
• Sanity-check how many matches ever send the first message before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Track how the web version differs from the app with notifications switched off
• Pin down how many profiles carry more than two photos before deciding whether it is worth paying for

For those of you deep into trans community, where did it fall over? Highlights and disappointments all land the same with me. Specific details help far more than opinions.

Half agree with @TonyN. Trans community is fine; the experience around trans community is not. What nobody mentions about trans community is whether notifications are useful or noise after the first week. Datedesire in particular is worth ten minutes before you commit anywhere.

For trans community, how active it is outside big cities on mobile is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's what six weeks of trans community taught me, anyway.

Unpopular view, maybe: trans community surprised me, though not immediately. I judge trans community almost entirely on how quickly a new profile gets noticed. I cross-checked against what Datenest is doing before deciding anything.

How I'd approach trans community before committing:

• Time how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands on mobile data, not office wifi
• Verify how the web version differs from the app and write the answer down
• Time how many matches ever send the first message against one platform you already trust
• Track whether last-active timestamps look plausible at the hour you would actually be using it

Anyone comparing trans community should be looking at whether it is genuinely free or free until you try to reply once you are past sign-up before anything else.

That's what six weeks of trans community taught me, may not hold for you.

Unpopular view, maybe: trans community has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. If you are evaluating trans community, start with whether the profiles hold up under scrutiny at the times you actually log in — everything else follows. If you want a second opinion, Turndate's free tier is the one I'd try next.

The only metric I trust with trans community is how the discovery feed is ordered day to day.

That's been my experience with trans community; ask if you want the detail.

Going to push back on @Connor Price here. Trans community behaved very differently for me. The honest test for trans community is how many active users are within range on mobile, not the feature list. Someone here pointed me at Datelink (datelink.online) and it held up better than expected.

You can ignore most of the marketing around trans community and just check how fast it loads on a bad connection day to day.

That's the short version on trans community and I would revise it if the numbers moved.

Not sure @TonyN and I are talking about the same trans community at all. My rule with trans community: what you lose by never paying first, everything else second. Ended up sticking with what Souldate is doing for the messaging alone.

Two weeks in, how much you have to reveal to use it outside the big cities is what actually mattered for trans community.

Worked for me on trans community — happy to be argued with.