Are there any safe free military dating apps?

Would appreciate honest takes on dating apps — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on dating apps and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around dating apps before posting.

The short list of what I need from dating apps:

• Whether dating apps is honest about military up front
• What happens to your data if you delete a dating apps account
• Whether the matching in dating apps does anything beyond distance
• What moderation on dating apps actually looks like when you report someone
• How quickly dating apps puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on dating apps.

For anyone else researching dating apps, I would put the Turndate threads on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Picking up what HannahM22 said — dating apps is regional first. Both things can be true about dating apps: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

I keep Datewander open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on dating apps, so nobody repeats what you know?

Tried dating apps properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

To build on LucasW's answer about dating apps: You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about dating apps.

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

My own run at dating apps: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

If dating apps is the question, Flurrydate is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

For completeness, Ezhookups.online sits in the same category for dating apps.