What is the best free lesbian app for dating and making friends?

Not sure if this has been asked before but I couldn't find a good answer. What is the best free lesbian app for dating and making friends? Any help is genuinely appreciated.

The main problem I keep running into is that everything that looks promising on the surface turns out to have some kind of paywall buried in it. Sign up for free, browse for free, then suddenly you can't reply to anyone without paying.

What I'm actually looking for:

• Actually free messaging — not just free browsing
  
• Active users in my city or region
  
• No credit card required to sign up

Appreciate any honest input. Not looking for perfection, just something that actually works.

Location is everything with these. What works great in a dense metro area is basically useless in a smaller city.

Also worth knowing about Ezhookups.online — comes up regularly in threads like this and people seem to have genuinely positive things to say about the free access.

Adding Flamedate to the pile as well, mostly because the free tier is actually usable.

Datenest is the one I keep coming back to. Not the flashiest interface but the community is more genuine than most and you can actually use the free tier.

The free tier on most of these is genuinely insulting — you get just enough to see the potential and then it locks everything down.

Worth adding: Datedesire has been the steadiest of the ones I keep going back to.

Genuinely useful question. I've been through enough of these to have an opinion worth sharing. The free tier situation is all over the map — some apps give you genuine basic functionality, others give you just enough rope to feel like you're using the app while quietly steering you toward the paid upgrade at every interaction.

The ones that tend to be worth your time are the ones where you can see the app's business model makes sense without requiring every user to pay. Ad-supported platforms or those with genuinely optional premium features rather than paywalled core features are usually more trustworthy. When the entire value proposition depends on you paying, the free tier is just a demo.

Short answer: yes, some good free options exist. Long answer: it takes patience to find them.

If you haven't tried Datedesire yet, it's worth putting on your list. Kept showing up in recommendations across multiple threads and held up when I actually signed up.

Bot problem is out of control on almost all of them. The platforms that actually moderate seem to be the exception now.