Reviews of LDS Singles and Dating Sites
WARNING: Don't be fooled by imitation LDS Singles and Dating sites!
Owners of regular non-LDS singles sites have realized a lot of the singles looking online for love are LDS. They want to cash in on the LDS singles market. So they've started advertising saying things like "Find LDS Singles", etc. But when you click on the ad it takes you to their generic non-LDS singles site.
How can you tell if a site is really for LDS singles only? Well, it's pretty obvious it's not an LDS singles site if you don't see the word LDS in the name of the company or anywhere on the page. But many sites have a way of putting "LDS singles" at the top of the page you're taken to when you click on their ad for LDS singles. Yup, I see this a lot. So you have to look for other red-flag blunders like these: the about us page says nothing about being LDS, girls pictured on the site or the models on the site are dressed immodestly, the site mentions finding a lover or a fling, the site gives you the option to search same-sex, gay or bi.
Here are our reviews and ratings of the most popular real LDS singles sites:
LDS Singles Rating:(out of 4 stars)
Price: $11.95/month, or less if you pay for several months at once
What's Free:
-View Profiles
-Create Your Own Profile for Others to View
The Good: There are tons of success stories posted on the site. I didn't count them, but they say they have over 1,000 success stories.
Doing a free search is quick and easy. I searched for young single males in my area and found a bunch, even ones I know. They were definitely quality guys and not losers.
LDS Singles has cool features like The COMPASS Matching System and Personality Profile, Audio/Video Chat and Instant Messenger, Powerful Search Tools, Unlimited Email, Flirts, Activity Groups, Events, Privacy Settings and more.
When you create a free profile, someone who's a member can let you know they're interested in you.
LDS Singles is the real deal. A membership with them may be the best bang for your buck.
The Bad: After a member expresses interest in you from your free profile, you have to become a member in order to contact them back.
Some of the pictures on the website are cheesy looking.
CTR Match Rating:
Price: $2.00/month, or less if you pay for several months at once
What's Free:
-Free LDS Compatibility Survey
-Send and Read Unlimited, Real Messages
-View detailed profile information, including 1 picture, and a self description paragraph.
-See who matches up best with you according to our matching calculations, including potential points of relationship strength and friction.
-The ability to rate pictures and have it affect your score with them.
The Good: If you're frugal, CTR Match is for you. The price is really affordable.
You get the feeling that the people behind CTR Match are truly interested in helping singles meet and aren't just trying to make money. They say their goal is to make the site actually usable for free members, while being more usable for paying customers.
The best feature of this site is that you don't have to become a member in order to meet and talk to people.
The Bad:You're paying less, but you're probably also getting less. It seems like a small company, and maybe a new company that doesn't have many members yet.
The website isn't as professional looking as other LDS singles sites.
LDS Mingle Rating:
Price: $11.99/month
What's Free:
-View Profiles
-Create Your Own Profile for Others to View
The Good: They have almost 400 success stories.
The site is very professional looking.
The Bad: Until you create a free profile you can't do a free search by area so you get results from all over the world.
LDS Romances Rating:
Price: $19.95/month, or less if you pay for several months at once
What's Free:
-Create Your Own Profile for Others to View
-Free Trial
The Good: The site also has forums, message boards and LDS links.
You can meet friends without the pressure of feeling like it's a meat market.
The Bad: It seems like there's something unprofessional about this company. I don't know, that's just my feeling. The website often has misspellings and sentences written in bad English. I'm not against an amateur website or a small business (just look at jenmagazine.com, we're amateur and a small business), but my problem is that they charge more than the other LDS singles services do, without offering any added benefits.
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