I tested a handful of these back to back here, so this is not a weekend opinion. It turns out the amount of information visible before matching is worth more than any feature list. The finding held consistently enough to trust after I controlled for the obvious variables. Worth testing yourself for what it is worth, and nothing more than that.

I trialled the free tiers only in my own time, so I am fairly confident in the shape of it. Strip out the noise and whether messaging is capped tends to decide whether you stick with it. The signal was clear consistently enough to trust regardless of how active I was. Others may have found the opposite honestly, so weigh it against your own results.

If I were starting again, I would look at:

  • Worth confirming how reply rate compares with match rate — this alone ruled a couple out for me.
  • Ask how much the app relies on push notifications — the answer varies more than you would think.
  • Whether there is a desktop experience at all — this is the one I would check first.
  • Check whether you can filter out inactive accounts

I reset and started clean without rushing it, which is why my answer is not the popular one. Once you look closely, how quickly fake profiles get removed can be tested inside a week.