Best For: Serious relationships, marriage-minded singles
Available In: Australia
Membership Options: Free sign-up, premium subscription
Quick Verdict:
eHarmony has really taken hold in Australia and, for once, beats Match for popularity by a long way. It’s the site of choice for the seriously intentioned and attracts over 700,000 site visits each month.
Best For: Dating, serious relationships
Available In: Australia
Membership Options: Free sign-up, premium subscription
Quick Verdict:
Over 80% of members are graduates and EliteSingles is favoured by busy professionals in the 20 – 40 age-bracket. With a feature-packed site and excellent customer service it’s a site growing in popularity in the main Australian cities.
Best For: Social networking, dating
Available In: Australia, UK, U.S., Germany and global
Membership Options: Free to join, premium subscription
Quick Verdict:
Benaughty caters for the Australian casual dating sector and over 1m Aussies have joined. The site offers a three-day trial for AUD 0.99 a day, but make a note to cancel before expiry if you wish to otherwise a full month’s charge will be applied.
Best For: Dating, relationships
Available In: Australia
Membership Options: Free browsing, subscription to highlight profile, tokens to send messages
Quick Verdict:
Established for over 20 years, RSVP gets over 1m visits per month and is a popular user-friendly site. It uses stamps (tokens) for premium features such as messaging but we prefer the more transparent subscription for consumers rather than the tokens payment model.
Best For: Dating, relationships
Available In: Australia
Membership Options: Free sign-up, premium subscription
Quick Verdict:
Match is rapidly gaining a foothold in the Australian dating sector but currently has a smaller membership base than the likes of eHarmony, RSVP and EliteSingles. Match is, however, feature packed and, particularly if you are city-based, you should get a good choice of potential dates.
Best For: Friendship, dating, relationships
Available In: Australia, U.S. , Japan
Membership Options: Free sign-up, Premium subscription
Quick Verdict:
AussieCupid’s site usage has a relatively small membership so you will get limited date choices unless you are in a main city. Approximately 75% of site users come from Australia as you would expect while 8% are from the U.S. and 5% from Japan.
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