ChadleyD

I gave each one a full month over a few months, which changed my answer completely. What kept coming up was the size of the local pool, which sets the ceiling on what you can achieve. It was consistent consistently enough to trust whether the app was well known or not. Check it against your own case frankly, so weigh it against your own results.

I made a spreadsheet, embarrassingly over a few months, and the pattern turned out to be consistent. The thing nobody mentions is that the size of the local pool is the part the marketing never mentions. It played out the same way again and again in replies rather than in match counts. That is where I landed really, not what a listicle told you.

I looked at what changed since last year across two cities, which is where the interesting part started. In my testing, how easy it is to delete an account predicts your reply rate better than anything else. It was true more than once once I had a few weeks of data. Reasonable people disagree here in the end, the basics matter more than the tuning.

What I would put at the top of the list:

• Worth confirming whether read receipts exist
• How quickly support answers a real problem — genuinely worth knowing up front.
• Ask whether there is a web version as well as an app — the answer varies more than you would think.

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