Modern Internet users who aren’t yet familiar with the online dating industry often make the same mistake — they choose the sites with the largest audience. At first glance, this makes sense — more users equal more chances to meet your soulmate. But in reality this is not entirely true.
Very popular dating sites and apps have a number of serious disadvantages:
- Difficulty finding a suitable match due to too many users. You can spend hours in vain studying hundreds of profiles, swiping photos of girls or guys, without finding a person who suits you.
- Lots of people who aren’t looking for a serious friendship or relationship. On popular sites like Tinder and Badoo, many users are looking for a quick “encounter without obligation”. This is not suitable for everyone.
- Scammers, Internet trolls and unpleasant or problematic users. The larger and more popular the site, the more there are. This can ruin your entire online dating experience.
Plus, it’s worth remembering about anonymity, security and privacy — unfortunately, many popular dating sites and apps have problems with this.
So what’s there to do for those who are intent on serious relationships and are not ready to put up with the disadvantages above?
Highly specialized dating sites — the best choice for serious and promising friendships
In the past few years, the demand for niche dating sites and applications has been rapidly growing — designed for certain types of users, their interests and preferences. The audience here, as a rule, is much smaller, but it is of higher quality. And the chances of meeting interesting like-minded people are much higher.
We’ve rounded up some interesting, highly specialized dating sites and apps that might interest you. Reason for more details.
Once
An app that takes your list of interests into account and builds an emotional profile based on them. And when your profile is compiled, once a day Once offers you a potentially suitable person to meet. The app has already received positive reviews from Vanity Fair, Elle and Glamor. And the number of active users exceeds 10 million and continues to grow.
Toffee
A very unusual dating app for iOS, Toffee is made for people who have received private education. At first glance this seems a bit strange, but if you look closely it makes a lot of sense. After all, interests, ways of thinking, and even styles of communication differ among such people, albeit slightly. And the fact that a unique dating platform has been created for them is great news!
Luxy
The Luxy application is positioned as a dating platform for the elite — successful and wealthy people who really know their own value. Popular TV host Jimmy Kimmel once said that the Luxy app is exclusively for the top 1% of the population. Of course, one could treat this approach as an attempt to divide users into worthy and unworthy. But applications like Luxy still have their place.
Bristlr
This is perhaps one of the most unusual dating apps in our collection. Bristlr is a dating platform for men with beards and girls who love men with beards. The bottom line is, if you’re a man and don’t have a beard, you simply won’t be able to use the Bristlr. Of course, the system can be fooled. But what’s the point? This is an interesting application which has already been written about by the BBC, Cosmopolitan, MTV News, Elle and other popular publications.
Metal Dating
Simply an indispensable dating app for heavy music lovers. The developers of Metal Dating are convinced that common musical tastes are an important part of successful and promising dating. Conversely, different tastes may well cause a breakdown in a relationship. You must admit, it’s hard to imagine a couple in which the rough and tough man listens to Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath, while the fragile girl adores BTS for example. Though we don’t deny that such couples exist as well, and they’re quite happy together.
CanDoBetter
A highly controversial but still interesting dating app where you can find a better match than you already have. You create your own profile and add your current partner’s information. Then other CanDoBetter members vote on who they think suits you best, and you get to communicate with the person who collects the most points. From a moral point of view, this is murky and perhaps distasteful. But still, we couldn’t fail to mention this unusual application.
Date My Pet
Popular dating app for pet owners. In it, you not only create your own profile, but also discuss your pet. This allows you to find interesting partners for joint walks with your pets, chat about them and just have a pleasant time with like-minded people. A really big advantage of Date My Pet is the opportunity to liven up leisure time not only for yourself, but also for your four-legged friend.
Bazoocam
Bazoocam ranks among some of the first random video chats. Initially, it was popular only in France, but it then attracted many users from other countries. On the Bazoocam website, you can chat face to face, play simple online games with random users, connect to the video stream of other participants, or launch your own stream to a large audience.
Shagle
A simple online video chat with a gender filter, search by location in more than 70 countries and virtual gifts that you can give to users you like. Owners of premium accounts can go to a separate chat to communicate only with girls. However, there are often fakes and bots here, so you need to be careful. Another major disadvantage of Shagle is the lack of mobile apps. On a smartphone, you have to use the web version, which is not very convenient.
CooMeet
This international video chat app is a real godsend for single men who want to meet girls. Unlike other chat roulettes, online chat with girls CooMeet completely excludes connecting to other men. And to use the service all girls must confirm their identities, which prevents the appearance of fakes and bots on the site. CooMeet is available on the web, iOS and Android devices. In addition, there is an affiliate program here that allows you to earn real money.
Niche dating sites raise your chance of true love
Today there are more than 8,000 dating sites, applications and online video chats in the world. Among them there are both super popular apps and little-known niche ones. We recommend combining them for the best experience.
Large sites like Badoo, Tinder, Bumble and others are well suited for those who want to understand the basic principles of dating apps and how everything works here. But niche sites — the choice of those who want to quickly find like-minded people, are aimed at serious acquaintances and promising relationships.
We also recommend combining classic dating sites or apps with video chats. They offer completely different communication formats that can satisfy the requirements of even the most sophisticated Internet user. The only difference is that dating platforms provide settings for targeted searches, while video chats provide more random results. But the chances of meeting an interesting chat partner or even a future soulmate are no less.
