What are the best dating apps for older singles who want companionship?

Long-time lurker here, finally posting, because what I want to understand is best dating apps for older singles who want companionship.

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

Setting companionship aside for a second, this is what I need from best dating apps:

• How best dating apps treats companionship once you stop paying
• How much companionship actually costs you when using best dating apps
• How best dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile

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

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

This tracks. Once companionship enters the picture, best dating apps stops being a simple comparison.

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

I'd separate companionship from best dating apps here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

Picking up what Elijah Scott said — best dating apps is regional first. Good thread — most discussion of best dating apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

Once I sorted out companionship, the rest of best dating apps became much more manageable than I expected.

Aiden Lewis has a point about best dating apps. The companionship part of this is being overstated, because best dating apps was fine for me without it.

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

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

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