What are some genuinely good dating apps for guys who don't have professional photos?

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

The frustrating part about dating apps is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

Concretely, for dating apps, these are my criteria:

• Whether dating apps is honest about professional up front
• What the professional side of dating apps looks like in practice
• How dating apps treats professional once you stop paying
• How the professional experience on dating apps compares month to month

Particularly interested in the professional side of dating apps if anyone has been there.

Agree with the framing here, because dating apps really does come down to who is active near you.

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

Set a deadline when you try dating apps, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

the Turndate community is what I ended up using while working through dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

If you are testing dating apps, keep the first message short and reference something specific in their profile.

Agreed, and specifically on professional — that is where dating apps either works or falls apart.

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

Practical suggestion on dating apps: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

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

The professional angle you raise is the part most threads on dating apps skip entirely.

I've also seen Flamedate.site mentioned in this context more than once.