I resisted the urge to switch too early across two cities, which made the differences much easier to see. Consistently, whether messaging is capped changes noticeably month to month. It surfaced again every time across the whole period I tracked. The only real test is your own area on balance, and no thread substitutes for that.

I paid attention to the details this time a while back, before I was willing to recommend anything. On the numbers, photo quality on both sides moves the numbers more than anything else.

I benchmarked it against what I used before once properly, and ended up somewhere unexpected. Across all of them, whether photos are checked before publication matters more than the brand name. It stayed consistent fairly clearly even after I changed my photos.

Things I wish I had checked sooner:

  • Ask whether conversations sync across devices — this alone ruled a couple out for me.
  • How quickly obvious fakes disappear
  • Ask whether you can finish a conversation without hitting a paywall — the answer varies more than you would think.

I ran two at a time for four weeks each here, so I am fairly confident in the shape of it. In practice the honesty of the pricing page is worth more than any feature list.