What are the best dating apps for people over 40 who are widowed?

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

The frustrating part about best dating apps is that the honest answers are buried in comment sections, not articles.

I've already worked through the first page of results on best dating apps, which is why I'm asking here.

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

• How quickly best dating apps puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• How much best dating apps actually costs you when using best dating apps
• Whether best dating apps is worth prioritising over everything else in best dating apps

Tell me what I'm missing about best dating apps.

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

Turndate is what I ended up using while working through best dating apps — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

I keep Flamedate.online open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating apps.

Anything promising instant matches around best dating apps is worth treating with suspicion.

To build on Ben1989's answer about best dating apps: Not sure I agree. The people I know who did well with best dating apps weren't on the biggest platform.

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

Ben1989 has a point about best dating apps. The cheap test for best dating apps is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.