What are the best dating apps like tinder but with a much better gender ratio?

I keep running into the same wall with best dating apps and I'd rather hear it from real users than another review site.

I don't trust app store ratings on best dating apps — they're gamed in both directions.

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

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

• How quickly best dating apps puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started
• How best dating apps handles ratio compared with the bigger names
• Whether the best dating apps experience holds up after the first fortnight
• What moderation on best dating apps actually looks like when you report someone
• Whether ratio is the reason best dating apps feels inconsistent

Even a 'don't bother' on best dating apps is a useful answer.

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

This is the correct question, and most threads about best dating apps start two steps further along and miss it.

To build on Liam Walker's answer about best dating apps: If ratio matters to you then best dating apps narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

The ratio 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, the Flamedate community came up when I was looking at the same thing.

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

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

Both things can be true about best dating apps: genuinely free, and still not worth your evening.

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

Someone recommended the Turndate forums to me during my own search around best dating apps and it was better than I expected.