- Inexpensive premium features
- Various relationship tests
- Available on multiple platforms
- Large user base
- Requires a lot of information to sign up
- Many restrictions on sending messages
- Poor matching system
- No integrations with other services
Here are a bunch of fast facts about the three services to give some context for the head-to-head contests to follow.
Winner: best free experience
The thing about “free” dating apps is that you’re enticed to upgrade to get full functionality. But how much mileage do you get out of the free version before you feel like wanting to upgrade?
Bumble’s main restriction is that you can only extend the amount of time you have to respond to a match before it expires once per day. You also can’t re-connect with your expired matches right away. But your matches can come back to you eventually, so it’s not as big of a deal as it sounds.
Tinder has rather stricter limits on its free use. You can only “like” a limited number of profiles per day, you can’t undo a “like” or “dislike” (you can occasionally undo a “dislike” in Bumble with the “Backtrack” feature), and you are limited to matching in your current location – you can’t change it to search for matches somewhere else.
Plenty of Fish has some restrictions, too. You only get 8 profile photos maximum, you can’t search for users by name (which, to be fair, you can’t do on Tinder or Bumble regardless), and you won’t always see someone’s full profile. Continue reading Quick comparison table: how Bumble, Tinder, & POF stack up
