What are the best rated dating apps on the app store that aren't owned by Match Group?

Been circling this one for a while and I want input from people who actually use these platforms: best rated dating apps on the app store that aren't owned by Match Group.

Nothing I can find on dating apps addresses store in any depth.

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

Where store is concerned, these are the dating apps questions I have:

• Whether store makes any material difference to dating apps
• Whether store is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• How much store actually costs you when using dating apps
• Whether anyone has tested store properly on dating apps
• How dating apps handles store compared with the bigger names

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

Practical suggestion on dating apps: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

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

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

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

One caution on dating apps — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

I've also seen Datelink.site mentioned in this context more than once.