What are the best dating apps for 50 year olds returning to the dating scene?

Someone in another thread mentioned best dating apps in passing and it's been bugging me since.

The scene question keeps getting skipped in everything written about best dating apps.

So far I've tried the obvious route with best dating apps and got nowhere useful.

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

• Whether the free tier on best dating apps is genuinely usable or just a demo
• How much of the best dating apps profile pool is dormant or fake
• How long best dating apps takes before a conversation goes anywhere at all

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about best dating apps.

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

StevenK has a point about best dating apps. Depends what you mean by best dating apps, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

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

Picking up what StevenK said — best dating apps is regional first. Agreed, and specifically on scene — that is where best dating apps either works or falls apart.

A friend had a good outcome with best dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

How long did you give best dating apps before deciding it was not working for you?

Respectfully, I think the framing of best dating apps sets people up to be disappointed.

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

Are you asking about best dating apps for a city or somewhere more rural, because that changes the answer completely?

Does scene actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for best dating apps?

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

To build on StevenK's answer about best dating apps: Going to push back a little, because I do not think best dating apps is about the size of the pool at all.

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

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

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