Are there any older dating apps specifically for the 60+ demographic?

I've spent about three months poking at dating apps and I still don't have a clean answer.

Every comparison of dating apps I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

I gave dating apps about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

The short list of what I need from dating apps:

• Whether dating apps has real users outside the big metros
• How dating apps handles demographic compared with the bigger names
• Whether the dating apps experience holds up after the first fortnight
• How dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

Even a 'don't bother' on dating apps is a useful answer.

Datebound is what I ended up using while working through dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

The thing that caught me out with dating apps was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

Have you looked at the demographic side of dating apps yet, or still on the basics?

Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with dating apps weren't on the biggest platform.

Are you asking about dating apps for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

To build on Owen Martinez's answer about dating apps: Depends what you mean by dating apps, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

Worth splitting dating apps into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Luvdate solved the messaging-paywall part of dating apps for me last year.

I keep the Datescout free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

Adding Datewander to the pile for dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.