Pure Review September 2023

To get started, download the app on your mobile device first. It would take approximately 2–3 minutes to register. Take note that accounts are automatically deleted after 24 hours.

To create an account, open the app and grant the app permission to process your data. This includes your email, phone number, and payment information. Since profiles are deleted after a certain amount of time, the app would need to collect your personal data to finetune the user experience for you.

After allowing Pure access, you'd have to choose if you'd want to register via phone or email. After that, you must select your gender and email address or phone number, verify your email or number, and choose if you are creating a new account or an old one and who you are looking for.

Once those are set, you would have to turn your location settings on. The app heavily relies on GPS to suggest nearby users in your area. You must upload a good photo of yourself. Being a visual app, the app only asks for your gender, sexual preference, and photo—nothing else. Therefore, you remain entirely anonymous. You'd only have your photo to attract possible interactions.

Pure, like its minimalistic design, has very minimalistic features. Your profile turns into a meeting request, which is broadcast to other users near your location using the app.

This is when luck favors those with the right timing and in the right location. You must be in an area where there are lots of Pure users. Also, with the time limit, there's considerably lower activity. The best time is during "peak hours," whenever that may be in your area. 

After matching, you can have an anonymous audio chat (akin to a phone call, and the conversation is completely confidential – unless you want to retain your connection thereafter), allowing you to have an intellectual matching experience rather than swiping based on looks.

While its concept is fresh and trendy, you can only contact others through basic chat. This app observes discretion with its temporary profiles. But to actually contact other users, you'd need to mutually like each other. That's the only way a chat box will be activated.  

If you are in an area where there are not that many Pure users or low activity, it's best to skip this one since you'd have to fill in your credit card information right away upon signing up. However, if you are just plain old lucky to be in an area where there are loads of Pure users and you wish to have easy and casual fun, this app is made just for you. 

The feature that makes Pure stand out from the rest is its self-destructing personal ads. After creating an account, you'd only have 24 hours to use it. It works like an Instagram story where everything disappears after a certain period of time. Once the time limit is up, the personal ad, along with your messages, is deleted permanently. You'd have to create a new personal ad to use the app again.

Other than a selfie, your name and any other personal details will not be displayed on the site. Therefore, you'd have to make sure to have one heck of a display photo to get noticed. Remember, the chat window only pops up when the "like" is mutual. 

Having temporary profiles in the form of personal ads that display zero details can be both advantageous and disadvantageous. While it is one way of helping you remain almost anonymous, other users would also be anonymous as well. It is better to take precautions and thoroughly vet your matches well before you go meet up with them in real life.