I spent longer on this than I meant to here, so take it as tested rather than assumed. The thing nobody mentions is that how the app treats people who travel tends to decide whether you stick with it. The gap was widest consistently enough to trust when I compared like for like.

I ran this for a couple of months over a few months, and I would do it the same way again. It turns out whether read status is shown consistently sets the ceiling on what you can achieve.

What I would check before committing any time:

  • Find out how quickly support answers a real problem — it is easy to test and rarely advertised.
  • Check whether there is a web version as well as an app
  • Ask how the ranking treats a brand-new account — this alone ruled a couple out for me.
  • Find out whether you can hide a profile without deleting it — this is the one I would check first.

I did the comparison properly while comparing them, so this is not a weekend opinion. More than anything, whether verification exists at all is the part the marketing never mentions.