Is there a dating app for the rich that isn't just a sugar daddy site?

Going to be blunt about dating app for the rich that isn't just a sugar daddy site because I'm tired of guessing. Where dating app falls down for me is what share of matches go nowhere outside the big cities.

Where I get stuck with dating app is that it works differently by region. Anyone comparing dating app should be looking at how obvious the scripted replies are at the times you actually log in before anything else.

What I wish someone had told me about dating app after a few false starts:

• Watch what share of the layout is advertising twice, a week apart
• Sanity-check how many profiles carry more than two photos before you upload a second photo
• Note what share of the layout is advertising on the first evening, not the first month

Anyone with recent time on dating app, what did the review sites get wrong? Cheerleading and cynicism all equally useful. Regional details matter more than star ratings.

Not the answer anyone wants: dating app is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. You can ignore most of the marketing around dating app and just check how active it is outside big cities after the first week. Genuinely surprised by the flamedate.online crowd after low expectations.

The only metric I trust with dating app is whether the free plan is usable or decorative in practice.

That's been my experience with dating app, anyway.

Not the answer anyone wants: dating app rewards patience and punishes everything else. Two weeks in, what the reply rate looks like after the first week is what actually mattered for dating app.

For dating app, what you lose by never paying after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

Worked for me on dating app, though clearly it varies by region.

Going to push back on @Carter_K here. Dating app behaved very differently for me. If you're evaluating dating app, start with what happens after you block someone once you are past sign-up — everything else follows. datedesire.online was the other one on my shortlist.

That's what six weeks of dating app taught me, for whatever that's worth.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: dating app is a decent starting point and a poor destination. The thing that decides it for dating app is whether desktop and mobile behave the same after the first week. The closest thing I found to an honest free tier was the Datebie community.

The rough checklist I use for dating app after a few false starts:

• Test whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out against what the marketing page claims
• Note how the web version differs from the app against one platform you already trust
• Check how many matches ever send the first message before you upload a second photo

That's been my experience with dating app — happy to be argued with.

Blunt answer: there is a version of dating app that works, and it is not the default one. The honest test for dating app is whether messaging is open or gated behind credits outside the big cities, not the feature list. I ran the same test on Souldate's free tier and got a cleaner result.

I judge dating app almost entirely on whether the activity is real or recycled day to day.

That's the short version on dating app — happy to be argued with.

Honest take: dating app gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. My rule with dating app: what privacy controls exist day to day first, everything else second.

What nobody mentions about dating app is what privacy controls exist.

That's been my experience with dating app and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

Disagree with @MadelineR on dating app. The version of dating app I used had none of that. For dating app, how obvious the scripted replies are is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening. Ended up sticking with the datenest.site crowd for the messaging alone.

If you are evaluating dating app, start with what the reply rate looks like after the first week — everything else follows.

That's where I've landed on dating app, though clearly it varies by region.