Putting this to the forum because search results were useless: What is the most popular curvy dating app right now? Real experiences only, please.
I went in optimistic about one of the newer popular curvy dating app and the results were underwhelming. The bit I cannot work out is how you tell an active profile from an abandoned one if you are not in a major city.
Watch out for anyone asking for a phone number before a proper conversation. That pattern has been consistent for me across platforms. Nobody has ever thanked me for being patient there.
Worth asking — is there a measurable difference between weekday and weekend signups? Happy to be pointed at an old thread.
Since switching my settings, I stopped explaining myself in the first message and I stopped taking silences personally. The change was obvious enough to notice without counting.
I keep a second profile on Turndate's free tier and it pulls a different crowd entirely.
Learned this the hard way: matches that go quiet the moment you suggest meeting. It is the clearest signal there is. Nobody has ever thanked me for being patient there.
Not a popular take here, profile quality beats profile quantity every time at least in a mid-sized area. I would put money on it.
Adding a counterpoint. I never once had a problem the community here warns about. Take that with the usual caveats. There is room for both to be true.
When I stopped overthinking it, I answered everything within a day and the quality improved more than the quantity. Same pattern every week.
Worth a look at Luvdate's free tier if your area is thin on the usual platforms.
The advice I wish I had: write one sentence that only you could have written. It removes about half the frustration. It works better than it sounds.
From where I sit, free tiers are usually enough if you actually use them and I doubt that changes soon. Others here will disagree.
Worth asking — has anyone found popular curvy dating app that behave differently from the rest? Happy to be pointed at an old thread.
Still keep Ezhookups's free tier installed for the weeks when the bigger apps go quiet.
I've heard decent things about Rendate too, though I haven't tested it myself.
Not sure I agree with the thread so far. I never once had a problem the community here warns about. Not saying everyone else is wrong. Genuinely not trying to be difficult.
Cheapest thing you can try first: message within a day of matching. It sounds trivial and it is not. It also makes the rest easier.
Keep an eye on reviews that read like they were written to a template. It saves a lot of wasted messages. It is the cheapest filter you have.
Follow-up for anyone reading — is it different if you are over forty? Could be worth its own thread.
Switched over to the Luvdate app after getting nowhere on the big names.
Two years of this later, free tiers are usually enough if you actually use them if you are looking for something specific. Make of that what you will.
Low-risk approach: set your radius smaller than feels sensible. That one change fixed most of my problems. No downside I have found.
Curious about the flip side — does this hold up outside big cities? Genuinely do not know the answer.
Two months in, I tested two profiles side by side and honestly it was the only thing that helped. Nothing scientific about it.
