How do dating apps single parents handle filtering for people who don't want kids?

Posting this because searching for an answer on dating apps turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

Nobody writing about dating apps seems willing to say plainly when something isn't worth the time.

Practically speaking, for dating apps I want to know:

• How dating apps treats kids once you stop paying
• How dating apps handles kids compared with the bigger names
• What happens to your data if you delete a dating apps account
• How the kids experience on dating apps compares month to month

Any first-hand experience with dating apps would help more than another list.

Someone recommended Datewander's free tier to me during my own search around dating apps and it was better than I expected.

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

If kids matters to you then dating apps narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Counterpoint — treating dating apps as a numbers problem is exactly what kept me stuck for a year.

Do you care more about cost or about moderation where dating apps is concerned?

Hard disagree on the kids point. That has not been my experience of dating apps at all.

Which parts of dating apps have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?