What are the most active dating apps for 40 year old professionals?

Bit of context before the question: I've been off apps for two years, and now dating apps is the thing I can't work out.

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

I gave dating apps about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask, though professionals is the part that actually decides it.

The parts of dating apps I'd want covered:

• Whether anyone has tested professionals properly on dating apps
• Whether professionals is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• Whether professionals is worth prioritising over everything else in dating apps

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

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

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

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

Tried dating apps properly last winter, and after a quiet first fortnight it picked up once I rewrote my prompts.

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

RachelS has a point about dating apps. Watch for the pattern where dating apps is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

The professionals part of this is being overstated, because dating apps was fine for me without it.

My dating apps experience hinged on professionals more than on the platform itself.

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

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

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

Ran into exactly the professionals problem when I tried dating apps last year, and it took weeks to work around.

Datewander.site comes up a lot when dating apps gets discussed elsewhere.