What are the best dating apps for average guys?

Posting this because searching for an answer on best dating apps turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

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

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

The criteria I keep coming back to on best dating apps:

• Whether the best dating apps experience holds up after the first fortnight
• Whether messaging on best dating apps works without handing over card details
• What moderation on best dating apps actually looks like when you report someone
• How the average experience on best dating apps compares month to month

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

Since we're comparing options around best dating apps, Datescout's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

SarahK, that's roughly where I landed on best dating apps too. Have you looked at the average side of best dating apps yet, or still on the basics?

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

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

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

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on best dating apps, so nobody repeats what you know?

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

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

My experience with best dating apps was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Which parts of best dating apps have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

The thing that caught me out with best dating apps was auto-renewal buried in a trial.

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