Is the Thursday Dating App Legit?

Yes, in the sense most men mean. Thursday is a real dating company that runs real events for singles and sells tickets to them, and its app lists those events by city. What it does not do is promise you a date. Much of the doubt you read online comes from judging it as the swipe app it used to be, so check what it offers in your city before you trust any review, including ours.

The question hides three separate worries.

The first is whether the company is real and still running. The second is whether you will lose money on something that is not what it claims to be. The third is whether it works, meaning whether you will meet anyone worth meeting.

Thursday answers the first two reasonably well. It cannot answer the third in advance, and nobody honest can. It publishes no figure for how many men leave an event with a date, so nobody can tell you your odds.

Thursday began as a dating app and now puts events first. Its homepage talks about less matching and more meeting. The app shows singles events in cities around the world and sells tickets to them. It also runs some in-app games meant to start conversations at an event. It also sells singles trips.

That change is the main reason men call it a scam or a dead app. A man who remembers a swipe feed opens it, finds a calendar of tickets instead, and assumes something is wrong. Nothing is wrong. The product is different.

Some formats have their own quirks. At one, an AI matchmaking night called Matchbox, guests fill in a questionnaire on arrival and are paired on values. Some pairings may be platonic on purpose, and a guest who misses the questionnaire misses the pairings. Do not read a pairing as a promise.

You do not need to take anyone's word for it. A few minutes in the app tells you most of what you need.

Find an event in your city and read the whole ticket page. It should say what the event is, where it is, when it starts and what the ticket covers. If you cannot tell what you are buying, do not buy it.

Read the cancellation and refund terms on that page before you enter a card. We do not state them here because they are the company's to set and can change, so read what is on your screen on the day.

Pay inside the app or on the company's own site, and nowhere else. If anyone asks you to send money some other way, or to move the conversation off the app before you have met, walk away. That advice holds on every dating app.

A legit company can still sell you an evening that does not suit you.

Tickets cost money, and you pay for each one whether or not you meet anyone you like. Spots are limited, so popular events sell out. Events are city based, so a man in a small town may find nothing near him. If there is nothing near you, you have your answer without spending anything.

It also does not mean everyone there is a good match for you. Everyone has paid to come and is single, which removes a lot of guessing about intentions. It does not tell you whether you will like each other.

Search for what Reddit says and you will find a mix. Some posts describe the old swipe app. Some describe a good night out. Some describe a flat one.

Those are different products judged by different standards. A man who wanted a feed of faces and got a ticket page is angry at the wrong thing. A man who went to one event, talked to nobody and wrote it off after a single night has a sample of one.

a dating coach's general advice about any dating tool is to test it, count what happens and let your own results decide. That applies here.

Go to three events over a month, and count the same things each time: people you spoke with for more than a few minutes, numbers you asked for and dates you set.

Go with a plan. Pick one or two people you would like to talk to, open with something about the event itself and keep early conversations short and friendly. If you like someone, ask for her number before the night ends and suggest a specific time that week. A man who asks plainly gives her something easy to say yes to.

Dress as yourself on a good day, arrive on time and put your phone away.

If you are shy, or events are rare where you live, a regular dating app may be the easier place to start. Fix your photos and your first lines, since those travel with you everywhere.

You can use both. Keep an app running while you try events, and see which one gives you more conversations and dates. Put your evenings where the results are.