Which are the best anonymous dating apps?

Bringing anonymous dating apps here because the blog posts are useless. Where dating apps falls down for me is how the interface holds up on mobile day to day.

The reason I am asking about anonymous dating apps at all is how fast the picture goes out of date. What nobody mentions about dating apps is whether the block list holds after the first week.

The three things that decide dating apps after a few false starts:

• Verify what happens to your visibility after a week of silence on mobile data, not office wifi
• Count how many profiles carry more than two photos in your own city rather than the default radius
• Compare what the block and report flow actually does before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Confirm how the search behaves outside the default radius twice, a week apart
• Time how quickly a scripted account gives itself away in your own city rather than the default radius

If you gave up on anonymous dating apps, was it worth the setup time? Highlights and disappointments both help me decide. Honest answers are what I came here for.

Speaking from four months of it: anonymous dating apps is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. Two weeks in, what happens after you block someone is what actually mattered for dating apps. Also looked at ezhookups.online, roughly the same story.

My rule with dating apps: whether messaging is open or gated behind credits in practice first, everything else second.

That's where I have landed on anonymous dating apps — happy to be argued with.

Having used it a while: anonymous dating apps gets recommended a lot here and that's half right. The thing that decides it for dating apps is whether desktop and mobile behave the same once you are past sign-up. Someone here pointed me at a look at Datenest and it held up better than expected.

Practical notes on dating apps:

• Count what happens to your visibility after a week of silence on mobile data, not office wifi
• Confirm how many matches ever send the first message on mobile data, not office wifi
• Sanity-check whether replies are open before you finish the profile on mobile data, not office wifi
• Compare whether replies are open before you finish the profile with the age filter set narrow

That's where I have landed on anonymous dating apps, for whatever that is worth.

Short version: anonymous dating apps is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. I judge dating apps almost entirely on how obvious the scripted replies are. I cross-checked against Datelink these days before deciding anything.

That's my read on anonymous dating apps, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

My read: anonymous dating apps gets recommended a lot here and that is half right. Anyone comparing dating apps should be looking at how fast moderation responds once you are past sign-up before anything else.

That's what six weeks of anonymous dating apps taught me; ask if you want the detail.

Broadly agreeing, with a caveat: anonymous dating apps rewards patience and punishes everything else. If you are evaluating dating apps, start with what privacy controls exist at the times you actually log in — everything else follows. For comparison I also spent a week on what Souldate is doing.

That's how anonymous dating apps went for me and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

@Mason Brown that's fair in a big city, but dating apps is a different story outside one. The only metric I trust with dating apps is what the bot ratio feels like day to day. If you want a second opinion, over on Luvdate is the one I'd try next.

That's what six weeks of anonymous dating apps taught me, though clearly it varies by region.

Unpopular view, maybe: anonymous dating apps has been mixed for me and I'll explain why. For dating apps, what you lose by never paying after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's the short version on anonymous dating apps, anyway.