What are the best anonymous dating apps that use blur features on photos?

Been circling this one for a while and I want input from people who actually use these platforms: best anonymous dating apps that use blur features on photos.

Every comparison of dating apps I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched dating apps.

Narrowing it down, here is what matters to me about dating apps:

• What the blur side of dating apps looks like in practice
• Whether blur makes any material difference to dating apps
• How much blur actually costs you when using dating apps
• How dating apps treats blur once you stop paying
• Whether dating apps is honest about blur up front

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

Read the small print on blur before you commit to anything around dating apps.

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

For context on dating apps: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Disagree with MeganT slightly here on dating apps. Worth splitting dating apps into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

My rule for dating apps is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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

One caution on dating apps — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

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