If you had to pick one, what is the best online dating app on the market right now?

Genuine question for the board, and I've tried to search first: if you had to pick one, what is the best online dating app on the market right now.

The problem with researching best online dating is that almost every top result is a ranked list written by someone paid to rank it.

Where pick is concerned, these are the best online dating questions I have:

• How best online dating handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• How much pick actually costs you when using best online dating
• Whether the free tier on best online dating is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How much of the best online dating profile pool is dormant or fake

Particularly interested in the pick side of best online dating if anyone has been there.

The pick part of this is being overstated, because best online dating was fine for me without it.

Disagree with Sophia Lane slightly here on best online dating. The pick disagreement in this thread says more about best online dating than any single answer.

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

Took me about six weeks on best online dating before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

Someone recommended Flamedate itself to me during my own search around best online dating and it was better than I expected.

What moved the needle for me on best online dating was three clear photos plus one specific opening line.

Flurrydate's free tier is what I ended up using while working through best online dating — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

Not affiliated with anyone, but the Turndate threads solved the messaging-paywall part of best online dating for me last year.

Have you looked at the pick side of best online dating yet, or still on the basics?

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

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

For me the pick side of best online dating was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

For anyone else researching best online dating, I would put Datingfly itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on best online dating are more use than any ranked list.

Once I sorted out pick, the rest of best online dating became much more manageable than I expected.

Someone will probably mention Flamedate.online before this thread is done.