Pure Review September 2021

To get started, download the app on your mobile device first. The app is available on Google Play and the App Store. It is completely free to download, but there are in-app purchases. It would take approximately 2-3 minutes to register. Take note that profiles are temporary and deleted after the 1-hour time limit. Therefore, you'd have to create a new profile whenever you'd want to use Pure.

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, email address or phone number, verify your email or number, 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, photo, and 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 using the app near your location. This is when the 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. Best time it during "peak hours," whenever that may be in your area.

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 the area where there's 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, locate other users near your area, like them, and if they like you back, chat with them and maybe, discuss a meeting arrangement. 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, are 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 precaution and thoroughly vet your matches well before you go meeting up with them in real life.