There is a flood of dating apps and websites on the Internet, but the main problem is that most of the profiles on these apps are fake. After 10-15 minutes of chatting they will demand money. Also sometimes you will have to talk with bots, they will repeatedly answer the same phrases for any question you put them. So it is not so easy to find genuine apps and profiles for serious dating. It took me 17 days to make a list of 11 free dating and relationship apps for men/women after proper testing.
It is great news for the readers that they no longer need any research and can install any app from the list and can start enjoying dating. Also, I will give you some tips based on my own experience to find out real and genuine profiles on these dating and relationship apps. I have selected only free apps, but these apps also have some in-app purchases which totally depends on you whether to buy or not. Let’s start by consuming no time:
11 Best Free Dating & Relationship Apps for Men of All Ages
1. Badoo
Badoo app comes first when we search for a dating app store and you can say it is a very common dating app. This app is one of the most loving dating apps available for smartphones. This app is suitable for all men more than the age of 17 years. It is available for Apple devices as well as for Android. It has 100M+ downloads on Google Play and millions of downloads on Apple store which makes it the most popular app for making friends.
- Google play ratings: 4.1 out of 5 (5M Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.5 out of 5 (63.5K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
2. Free Dating App
This is a good app if you don’t want to spend money on making new friends and finding new dates near you. This app automatically filters people near you and you can then connect to them. Directly you can send messages to them and start flirting. These apps are not designed to find true love for you, but these are designed to find single people near to you.
The best thing which I love about this app is that it is totally free and has a lot of potential for you. It is not a common and famous app on the internet but you will surely find it helpful for you. You can download it for Android smartphones.
- Google play ratings: 4.2 out of 5 (3.5 Lakhs Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads
3. Once: Meet singles close to you, one match per day
Once, this app is also trending these days in European countries but it serves all over the world. You can swipe endlessly to find the best match for you. Also, you will daily get a perfect match for you in the evening.
- Google play ratings: 4.4 out of 5 (3 Lack Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.0 out of 5 (<1000 Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
Obviously, it is available above the age range of 17 years. You will get some basic features in the free version but for all features, you will have to pay for it. It is available for Android and iOS devices.
4. happn – Local Dating app
This is one of the most famous dating apps with millions of downloads. If you search Google play with a dating keyword you will surely get it in the results. They claim to have near 1 billion members around the globe. You can like people secretly, and they will never know who liked them, but if they like you back only then they can find that you have already liked them. This is the reason, happen will help you to find the best match for you.
- Google play ratings: 4.1 out of 5 (1.5M Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.3 out of 5 (52.6K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
You can download happen for your Android as well as for iOS smartphone.
5. Mingle2 Free Online Dating App – Chat, Date, Meet
With lots of features, it is also a famous app for chatting, dating and meeting. You can sign up instantly and start finding unlimited new friends in your local area. Start chats instantly with new connections. There are millions of singles on Mingle2, which are looking for you.
- Google play ratings: 4.4 out of 5 (1.7Lakhs Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.4 out of 5 (43.7K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
Download it for Android and iOS here.
6. hi5 – meet, chat & flirt
hi5.com is a social networking website to meet, chat and flirt. They have also launched an Android app to make dating easy for their users. Hi5 is an old and reliable social networking platform. Till now they haven’t launched an application for iOS, but their Android app is quite good.
- Google play ratings: 4.4 out of 5 (1.35Lakhs Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
7. Plenty of Fish Free Dating App
Plenty of Fish also known as POF is a dating app and they claim that they have more conversations among singles than any other dating app. You know that all dating apps have lots of fake user accounts and this app also has, but users claim that POF has more fake accounts as compared to any other app. I think they have applied some filters in the near past which decreased the number of spam accounts. So it is safe for users now and you can get it for Android as well as for iOS devices.
- Google play ratings: 3.7 out of 5 (1.5M Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.1 out of 5 (1.1M Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
From the reviews, it is clear that iOS users are more satisfied than Android users. The Android version of this app has some issues which you can read in the reviews, so we recommend you to download it for iOS devices. If you have an Android OS device, then you can consider any other app from the list.
8. Tinder – Match. Chat. Date.
Really? Are you surprised because we placed the Tinder app at 8th place? Actually, Tinder is a very popular and famous app and when we think about a dating app, the first image highlighted on our brain is Tinder. But here I placed apps according to their ratings and reviews from the users. Apps placed above the 8th number are more effective and I recommend you to check those apps first and then you can try it.
- Google play ratings: 3.4 out of 5 (4M Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 3.9 out of 5 (52.2K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
It is available for Android and iOS.
9. OkCupid – Meet New People & Find Love Near You
OKC or OkCupid is an 18+ dating app with millions of downloads and is famous among the youngsters. They claim to have 175 million matches each year. This app needs some improvements like a country filter and making more things available for free. Some users claim that it is a money-oriented app but in reality, it also has some good free features like a love calculator. In actuality, it is mainly designed for India and I recommend it for Indian users only.
- Google play ratings: 3.8 out of 5 (4.2Lacks Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.3 out of 5 (186.7K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
Its interface and working are best on the iOS devices and you will enjoy it on your iPhone/iPad or iPod. Get it for your Android and iOS device here.
10. YoCutie – 100% Free Dating App
This is a 100% free dating app for Android and iOS devices. You can sign up with email, Gmail or Facebook. Like the other apps, you can swipe photos and videos to find new matches. This app allows you to verify yourself and then you will only see the verified profiles. This feature gives you the facility to bypass fake profiles and this is the best feature of YoCutie which impresses me the most.
- Google play ratings: 3.9 out of 5 (1.5Lacks Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.3 out of 5 (1.4K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads
11. Zoosk Dating App: Meet Singles
If you are bored with the old and conventional dating apps, then you can choose Zoosk. This is a new dating app with unique features. It is not totally free, you can sign up and use some basic features for free. But to enjoy all features you need to pay for it. So, only 25% of its features are free and we recommend you to install it only if you are bored with other apps.
- Google play ratings: 3.7 out of 5 (5.9Lacks Ratings)
- Apple store ratings: 4.3 out of 5 (69.2K Ratings)
- Cost: Contains ads & offers in-app purchases
Download it for Android and iOS.
From the above list of best free dating apps for relationships and dating, two apps are there which are totally free and these are YoCutie and Free Dating App & Flirt Chat. Other apps are also free but contain in-app purchases that mean some features of these apps are free and for other features, you will have to pay.
At the end of this article, I want to give you some advice which will help you to find genuine profiles.
- Ignore the profiles which send you links in the messages
- Don’t reply to those messages which have any model’s or actress’s DP
- If you feel that the user replying the same answers for two different questions, then it will surely a bot account
- Try those apps from the above list of dating apps which provide the feature of profile verification and choose contact with verified profiles only
- Don’t send money to any user, in any case, so stay attentive, stay safe.
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