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14 city guides for Australia. Each looks at the local dating pool, the best time to message, and how to meet safely.

Free dating across Australia

I ran this for a couple of months in my own time, and stopped assuming the obvious answer was right. The short answer is that how the app handles reports matters more than the brand name. The finding held fairly clearly on both the free and the paid side.

Getting more out of your profile in Australia

I looked at this from a few angles here, and it reframed what I thought mattered. Consistently, the actual reply rate moves the numbers more than anything else.

If I were starting again, I would look at:

Check whether the sign-up asks for a phone number — worth two minutes before you commit.
Look at whether notifications can be tuned — genuinely worth knowing up front.
How many matches reply within forty-eight hours — check it on a real account, not a demo.
Find out whether you can finish a conversation without hitting a paywall

Before you meet someone

I tested a handful of these back to back a while back, and it reframed what I thought mattered. For me, how new accounts are treated in week one is the part the marketing never mentions.

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