Do mainstream apps cater well to older women seeking older men, or is it mostly just scammers?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: do mainstream apps cater well to older women seeking older men, or is it mostly just scammers.

The reviews I can find on do mainstream apps never say what the free tier actually lets you do.

Where cater is concerned, these are the do mainstream apps questions I have:

• How do mainstream apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether do mainstream apps has real users outside the big metros
• Whether the free tier on do mainstream apps is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How much of the do mainstream apps profile pool is dormant or fake

Tell me what I'm missing about do mainstream apps.

Strongly agree, and I would add that do mainstream apps looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

Adding Luvdate itself to the pile for do mainstream apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

I gave up on do mainstream apps twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

The cater part of this is being overstated, because do mainstream apps was fine for me without it.

Picking up what Hannah Martin said — do mainstream apps is regional first. The cheap test for do mainstream apps is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on do mainstream apps yet, which is itself an answer.

Madison Reed has a point about do mainstream apps. Same read from me. Everything I've learned about do mainstream apps points back to local density.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate solved the messaging-paywall part of do mainstream apps for me last year.

This is the correct question, and most threads about do mainstream apps start two steps further along and miss it.

For anyone else researching do mainstream apps, I would put Datewander on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Since we're comparing options around do mainstream apps, Ezhookups came up when I was looking at the same thing.