BravoDate Review: Does It Really Work in 2024?

BravoDate overview in 1 minute

• One of the largest Eastern European dating platforms available today
• It’s free to browse profiles and watch the profile pictures of the ladies
• New users get 20 free credits; no credit card or email verification needed
• BravoDate has a great reputation—this dating website has more than 14,700 reviews on SiteJabber with a rating of 4.28 stars (out of 5)
• The mobile version is smooth and fast
• Most female profiles are validated by the ID 
• Very fast registration process
• The live chat is extremely convenient
• Virtual and real gifts for those who want to express their feelings in a long-distance relationship

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The pros & cons of BravoDate

Who is and isn’t BravoDate for?

In-depth review of BravoDate

How does BravoDate work?

• After the registration, you’ll be able to browse profiles and send winks
• The platform doesn’t provide matches
• You can search for a perfect match yourself and narrow your search results with free filters
• Sending messages is not free

So, once you create a profile on BravoDate, you’ll be able to browse all those female profiles, read profile descriptions, send them Winks, etc. However, you won’t get any matches here—instead, you’ll have to use the search tool to find a perfect match. Once it’s done, you can send a Wink to that lady or add her to your favorite list—if you want to send messages or chat with the girls, you’ll need to buy credits. Still, as a new user, you’ll get 20 free credits, meaning you have 10 minutes of live chat for free!

BravoDate features review

What makes BravoDate stand out from the competitors? One of those things is the assortment of premium tools offered by this site. Here, we’re going to talk about the most interesting messaging and other features provided by Bravo Date.

Newsfeed

NewsFeed is a free feature that allows you to view the “feeds” of other users of BravoDate. Just click the Newsfeed button and you’ll see them all—it’s like Facebook, but much more enjoyable and interesting, to be honest.

“People”

This is a very simple game where you see the profile picture of a user and if you like this picture, you can send a message that will most likely (taking into account the response rate of 85%) lead to further communication. It’s fun, interesting, and it’s also free!

Live chat

Live chat is basically the main messaging feature on this dating site. According to our analysis and mail order bride site reviews, users typically spend more time chatting via instant messenger than composing long emails. This becomes even more obvious and understandable if one pays attention to the cost of this feature—it’s pretty affordable, actually (we’ll cover it later).

Gifts

So there are two types of gifts here: virtual and real ones. Virtual gifts are basically paid stickers you can send to anyone on the site, while real gifts are a more interesting feature. Here’s how it works: you choose a gift, send it to a certain person, and then this person will record a video with this gift—so you can be 100% sure you’ve sent it to a real woman and not just wasted your hard-earned money on a scam. It’s real, it’s genuine, and, well, it’s pretty costly, but it’s really a great feature for those who want to express their feelings to their long-distance girlfriends.

Pricing & value for money

BravoDate has a credit system: you pay for credits, and then you exchange these credits for messaging, gifts, and other features; that’s how it works. Now, let’s take a look at the credit packages available here:

• $10 for 20 credits 
• $20 for 50 credits 
• $45 for 125 credits 
• $70 for 250 credits 
• $150 for 750 credits

Here’s the list of the free services on BravoDate:

• Registration
• Profile browsing
• Watching photos
• Sending Winks
• Favorite list
• The “People” game and Newsfeed
• Editing your profile and uploading pictures

Now, let’s take a look at the paid features:

• Live chat costs 2 credits per minute 
• Sending 1 email costs 10 credits (the first one) or 30 credits (all the next emails) 
• Gifts cost from 30 to 5,000 credits (virtual) and 700 credits (real gifts)
• Watching a photo—10 credits 
• Watching a video—50 credits

Let’s say you’ll want to spend around 300 minutes (5 hours) per month in a live chat. It’s not much, so let’s add 20 emails you sent to different women—that’s how a lot of men use international dating websites. How much would that be?

Profiles quality—BravoDate user base review

So, the quality of the profiles is just incredibly high here. And we’re not talking about their great make-up or fabulous natural beauty, which is expected when you are into Slavic ladies. What we mean here is that these profiles are very detailed—they have a lot of pictures (typically around 10), private and public albums, profile descriptions, and a lot of extra information about themselves. Just take a look at these two random ladies we found on BravoDate, and these are not even the most detailed profiles on this site!

P.S. Kindly note that even if a profile is ID-verified, it doesn’t mean its owner is 100% genuine. Even if you’re chatting with a validated user, you should still follow at least the basic safety rules: don’t send money, don’t reveal sensitive information, etc.

How to use BravoDate?

BravoDate is one of the most intuitive and user-friendly dating platforms we’ve ever seen. This website provides a very comfortable environment for both experienced dating enthusiasts and those who rarely visit dating sites. Still, here’s a short guide on the main steps of your BravoDate journey.

Registration process

You just need to enter your email address and password to sign up, that’s all. You’ll be asked questions and you’ll also be asked to write a profile bio during the registration, but you can skip these steps if you’re in a hurry. In such a case, your profile will be ready in 1-2 minutes max.

Once your profile is created, you can just click that BravoDate login button and enter your password, that’s all.

Profile creating

Now, you’ll have to answer all those questions you skipped during the registration. Well, it’s not mandatory, of course, and you can actually enjoy BravoDate even without a profile photo, not to mention all those fields about your personality. However, if you spend some time and answer these questions carefully, you will definitely not be disappointed. With a detailed profile, you will get much more attention, profile views, and messages from the ladies. Remember what we said about a high response rate? Well, it is high, but only if you have at least 1-2 photos and at least basic information about yourself.

Searching for potential matches

According to numerous BravoDate.com reviews (and our test results), this is one of those slightly disappointing sides of this dating site. We mean, yes, the support team is great here, the assortment of communication tools and other paid features is wide, and there are lots of ladies from different countries here. But to be on top of the list of the best mail order bride sites, a platform must be perfect—and the search tool on BravoDate is far from being perfect. There are only two search filters here (age and country), and that’s not what we wanted to see.

Communication with matches

As for the messaging tools, BravoDate definitely deserves 5 out of 5 stars. Well, ok, there’s no video chat here, so let’s say it’s 4.5/5, but it’s still a good result. We personally loved the live chat tool, but the email feature is great, too, especially if you are somewhat old-fashioned and feel like a long email will express your feelings better than a conversation in the instant messenger. Anyway, all the messaging tools available on BravoDate are very convenient and pretty affordable (especially the live chat). You can also click the “Say Hello” button if you can’t come up with an interesting idea for your first chat message to a woman: in this case, you’ll send one of those icebreakers written by the site’s team.

Customer support

The BravoDate customer support team is exactly as good as one expects from such a high-quality dating platform. We sent them a few messages with made-up problems like “Hey, I can’t buy credits, help me, please. Best regards.” They helped us right away, we got a response in 5-10 minutes, and all our “problems” were “fixed.”

Yes, of course, it’s not the most important factor when it comes to a dating site, but when you need their help, you’ll want everything to be done quickly and in a professional manner. Maybe you won’t even have any problems with the site but meet a scammer or a bot here (again, we found no BravoDate scam reviews and met no fake profiles, but who knows).

Frequently asked questions

Written byJohn Millerstone, Author

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