How are dating apps rated by the Google Play Store algorithm lately?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: are dating apps rated by the Google Play Store algorithm lately.

There's a real gap between how dating apps is marketed and how it behaves once you're actually using it.

What I'm trying to weigh up with dating apps:

• Whether anyone has tested play properly on dating apps
• What the play side of dating apps looks like in practice
• How visible dating apps keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• How much of the dating apps profile pool is dormant or fake

Tell me what I'm missing about dating apps.

The play variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of dating apps.

Since we're comparing options around dating apps, the Flurrydate community came up when I was looking at the same thing.

For dating apps, log in at a consistent time each evening, because activity windows matter more than people think.

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

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flamedate's free tier solved the messaging-paywall part of dating apps for me last year.

OwenM, that's roughly where I landed on dating apps too. Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with dating apps weren't on the biggest platform.

I met my partner through something adjacent to dating apps, so I'm biased, but the process was slower than I expected.

For completeness, Datebound.site sits in the same category for dating apps.