Feb 11, 2017 02:48 PM EST By Ava Jones, UniversityHerald Reporter

To avoid any false marketing promise, the truth is, there are no dating apps that can guarantee the relationship desired. But there are dating apps that can give people the platform to meet the person of their standards, and from there they can do the proper follow through. This way, they can hook up and get down and dirty, especially as the Valentine's Day is fast approaching.

7 Apps For Dating And Getting Laid

Eventbrite, Bumble, Blendr, Coffee Meets Bagel, and Down Dating are five of the most popular and effective dating apps online, Android Authority reported. Eventbrite and Blendr help users meet a prospected partner in their locality. Bumble is focused more on helping the women demography in finding their date and Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating app for the professionals. If CMB and Tinder had a love child, it would be Down Dating.

Eventbrite helps users know the upcoming events in their locality where they can find prospected partners. It helps users buy tickets and get RSVP to certain local events. It provides a lot of information to the user including Android wear support and Android Pay support.

Meanwhile, Bumble is a dating app where women get to choose who they want to talk to, like choosing from a line-up of puppies in a pet store. It can even help women find partners in the same sex for the members of the LGBT.

Do they work?

But the question is just how effective are dating apps and do they really work? According to research, some 15 percent of adults in the US used dating apps and dating sites. Pew Research found out in their 2016 research that only five percent of Americans who used online dating platforms landed on a committed, significant, and long-lasting relationship, Bustle reported.

Match conducted a 2016 Singles survey in the US and found out that 40 percent of people in the country have dated a person they met online. There are no clear indications, however, on how long their relationship lasted. According to the survey, 15 percent of singles got addicted to the search process in these dating platforms.

Millennials makes up the most numbers among people who got addicted to online dating platforms. Men are more likely to get addicted to the searching process in these dating sites and apps, while half of the women who have tried these dating apps feel burned out.

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