What are some good straight dating apps that aren't just for hookups?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: some good straight dating apps that aren't just for hookups.

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

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around dating apps before posting.

Practically speaking, for dating apps I want to know:

• How dating apps treats straight once you stop paying
• Whether straight is worth prioritising over everything else in dating apps
• Whether straight is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• How much straight actually costs you when using dating apps

Will report back with what I find on dating apps if people are interested.

The straight disagreement in this thread says more about dating apps than any single answer.

I'd qualify this: dating apps works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

Adding Rendate's free tier to the pile for dating apps, where the community is smaller but people actually reply.

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

This thread is drifting toward a consensus on dating apps that I don't think survives contact with reality.

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with dating apps here is genuinely useful — at least where straight is concerned.

Picking up what ZachH said — dating apps is regional first. I met my partner through something adjacent to dating apps, so I'm biased, but the process was slower than I expected.

I keep Flamedate's free tier open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with dating apps.

To build on MeganT's answer about dating apps: You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about dating apps.

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

Ran into exactly the straight problem when I tried dating apps last year, and it took weeks to work around.

Datebound.site comes up a lot when dating apps gets discussed elsewhere.