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Is the plenty of fish dating site completely free to message on anymore?

Started by NicoleB07 Sep 2025Dating Apps & Sites7 replies
NicoleB avatar
Joined: Mar 2025
Messages: 843
#1

Every guide I read on plenty of fish dating site completely free says the same three things and none of them help.

What I actually want to know about plenty of fish is how fast a conversation dies after the opener.

Nobody writing about plenty of fish seems willing to say what the gender ratio looks like locally.

Any experience with plenty of fish dating site completely free welcome, good or bad.

Brandon avatar
Joined: Oct 2020
Messages: 4731
#2

Ran plenty of fish alongside two others for about a fortnight — what I saw was stronger at the weekend.

Most of my results on plenty of fish came down to one habit — write a bio that says something checkable.

Anyone compared plenty of fish against the obvious alternative on how much moderation the room actually gets?

For me the thing that separates the good ones with plenty of fish is how long a profile stays visible without paying.

For a free alternative while you sort out plenty of fish, there is always Datebie (datebie.online).

Megan Foster avatar
Joined: Apr 2024
Messages: 846
#3

Only had the first month with plenty of fish, but how the volume moved was uneven depending on the hour.

The single change that improved plenty of fish for me was deciding to read the profile properly before replying.

I wasted a couple of evenings on plenty of fish because I'd send the same opener to everyone.

What matters more than the feature list on of fish is what the ratio looks like at different hours.

The part I keep getting stuck on with of fish is how many features survive the free tier.

Where of fish either works or falls apart is whether messaging is genuinely unlocked.

If you want the practical bits on plenty of fish:

  • The thing that separates the good ones on plenty of fish turned out to be less reliable than it looks from outside
  • The failure mode with plenty of fish is when you send the same opener to everyone
  • How it played out after a month of steady use of plenty of fish was worse than the reviews suggest
SteveB avatar
Joined: Sep 2023
Messages: 846
#4

I gave plenty of fish the first ten conversations and what the numbers looked like was more consistent than the alternatives.

The single change that improved plenty of fish for me was deciding to read the profile properly before replying.

Is anyone getting different results from plenty of fish, particularly on what a normal exchange looks like end to end?

Where plenty of fish either works or falls apart is how many features survive the free tier.

Danielle avatar
Joined: May 2022
Messages: 846
#5

Tried plenty of fish across a couple of evenings and honestly what the pool looked like was uneven depending on the hour.

Most of my results on plenty of fish came down to one habit — keep the conversation on the platform until you meet.

I wasted the trial period on plenty of fish because I would expect the algorithm to do the work.

The question underneath all of this is whether messaging is genuinely unlocked, at least with of fish.

What I actually want to know about of fish is what the reply rate looks like without photos.

LukeS avatar
Joined: Jan 2021
Messages: 847
#6

I gave plenty of fish a couple of evenings and what actually happened was clearly ahead on this one point.

What helped most with plenty of fish was that I made a point to ask one specific question instead of a generic opener.

What I actually want to know about plenty of fish is whether messaging is genuinely unlocked.

Ashley Turner avatar
Joined: Jul 2023
Messages: 1299
#7

Tried plenty of fish across about a fortnight and honestly what the numbers looked like was about what you would guess.

If you take one thing from this thread on plenty of fish: compare two platforms side by side.

Do not ignore how long ago someone was online — that is what cost me roughly six weeks on plenty of fish.

Where of fish either works or falls apart is what gets throttled once you stop paying.

Where of fish either works or falls apart is whether the swipe volume translates into conversation.

turndate.site is the other one people mention whenever plenty of fish comes up.

Chris avatar
Joined: Jul 2022
Messages: 839
#8

Going to push back on @Ashley Turner here — plenty of fish did not behave that way at all in my case.

What helped most with plenty of fish was that I made a point to set your expectations before you start swiping.

If anyone has tested plenty of fish properly, I want to know what gets throttled once you stop paying.

I ended up on Datewander (datewander.site) after the same plenty of fish question and it was the least painful of the lot.

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