Starting a thread on which dating app for foreigners free of charge because the existing advice contradicts itself. With foreigners apps, the signal-to-noise in search collapses as soon as the platform auto-renews without a clear warning. Travelers foreigners is the clearest case of it — you get further if you keep the conversation on-platform until you have met.
For travelers apps in particular, how well it works on a weak connection counts for more than the size of the ad budget. If travelers apps is your priority, the deciding factor is how much sits behind the paywall, though I would want someone to check me on this.
The travelers apps case is instructive — the proportion of dormant accounts is the number worth watching, not how slick the interface looks. My honest read on which dating app for foreigners free of charge: what decides it is the share of verified profiles, not how slick the interface looks. If you have been through the travelers foreigners version of this, I would rather hear the unglamorous account.