This has been bugging me for weeks, so: good dating app without payment restrictions on your inbox. For inbox apps in particular, most of the disappointment traces back to the ratio of matches to conversations. Same story on restrictions: nothing improves until you give it a fortnight before judging the pool.
The restrictions apps angle is worse, because the platform counts a like as a match, and you only notice once you have spent a few evenings on it. Inbox apps is the clearest case of it — how far the free tier gets you collapses as soon as the platform throttles your visibility unless you pay.
Look closely at restrictions apps and what decides it is how honest the pricing page is, not the marketing copy. The deciding factor is the depth of the profile fields, at least on my account — and that goes double for good dating app without payment restrictions on your inbox. What has actually worked for you on restrictions inbox, and what would you avoid?