Has anyone tried the truly madly dating app? How does it compare to Hinge?

Started by Molly
Started 17 Oct 2025
Board Dating App Reviews
11 posts
Platform ReviewsApp HelpDating Tech
#1

Tried the truly madly dating app keeps coming up here, so I'll add what I've got rather than start another thread. The thing that surprised me about tried the truly madly dating app was how much the free tier does most of what you need. Two things moved the needle on tried the truly madly dating app for me: read the billing page before you tap anything, and patience — that is most of it. Comparing the product itself against Hinge, the gap is smaller than the marketing suggests. What I found with tried the truly madly dating app is that the paid tier mostly buys you visibility, not matches — by and large that changes how you use it.

Open to being wrong on tried the truly madly dating app if someone has run it longer than I have.

#2

@Molly — broadly with you, with one caveat: nobody warns the typical user that tried the truly madly dating app needs a fortnight before the results mean anything. Ran tried the truly madly dating app alongside Hinge for over the last year — same effort on both, substantially different outcome. The part nobody mentions about tried the truly madly dating app is overall consistency; it shapes everything else. Everyone benchmarks tried the truly madly dating app against Hinge and that comparison flatters neither. Broadly, this particular route lives or dies on general reliability; the rest follows from there.

#3

@Brooklyn — that has not matched my experience. The reason tried the truly madly dating app frustrates the average member here is that the defaults are tuned for somebody else entirely. What tipped tried the truly madly dating app from frustrating to surprisingly decent for me was one change — message five people and count the replies. I would call tried the truly madly dating app overrated, though your mileage will vary. I stopped worrying about day-to-day usability on tried the truly madly dating app once I realised the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week.

#4

Tried the truly madly dating app rewards patience more than strategy, though your mileage will vary, and the rest is preference. The advice I would give most people asking this about tried the truly madly dating app is unglamorous: message five people and count the replies, then reassess. Honestly the fix for that side of things is boring: set your radius wider than feels sensible — anything else is a distant second. Someone upthread mentioned Datewander — worth a look and I will second it — the free tier is genuinely usable.

#5

Where I landed on tried the truly madly dating app: frustrating, provided you read the billing page before you tap anything. The honest summary of tried the truly madly dating app: underrated, and how it performs in practice is the reason why.

#6

If overall consistency is your main worry with tried the truly madly dating app, the practical move is to turn off read receipts and see what changes. People overstate whether it holds up over time on that approach and understate how much the first message matters less than the timing. If you want a low-commitment test, Datescout (free to browse) lets you browse before it asks for anything.

#7

@Paisley — that hasn't matched my experience. For people in general, tried the truly madly dating app works a little better if you test it for a week before committing. There is a version of tried the truly madly dating app that works well for the average member here, and it starts with deciding to check activity at different hours.

#8

@Logan — broadly with you, with one caveat: against Hinge, tried the truly madly dating app trades reach for signal — whether that suits you depends on your city. Tried the truly madly dating app gets recommended constantly and I still think overall consistency makes it a hard sell for the typical user. Tried the truly madly dating app is a reasonable default, but general reliability is the thing that will decide whether you stay. I have been running Ezhookups community alongside the mainstream apps and the reply rate held up better than I expected.

#9

@Logan — this matches what I saw. Tried the truly madly dating app looked promising until day-to-day usability turned into the whole experience, though it depends heavily on where you are. Do not judge tried the truly madly dating app on week one — the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week, and the other variables barely registered.

#10

@Dominic — that hasn't matched my experience. Three weeks into tried the truly madly dating app the pattern was clear: the app is only as good as the local user pool, but I'd want more data points. In my experience, that flavour of site is priced like a premium product and behaves like a free one — the remaining tweaks are marginal. Broadly the complaints about tried the truly madly dating app are really complaints about day-to-day usability across the whole category. Tried the truly madly dating app improved meaningfully once I stopped treating it like a numbers game. That side of things is the bit that decides it — everything else is polish.

Still testing tried the truly madly dating app, so treat this as provisional.

#11

@Paisley — broadly with you, with one caveat: for anyone weighing up tried the truly madly dating app — whether it holds up over time is real, but it's manageable if you message five people and count the replies. The app in question is fine on the surface; that approach is where it falls apart, and the rest is detail. People overstate whether it holds up over time on tried the truly madly dating app and understate how much the algorithm favours new accounts for about a week. Someone upthread mentioned what DatingFly is doing and I will second it — the free tier is genuinely usable.

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