What are the most common dating apps used in large metropolitan areas like New York or London?

Would appreciate honest takes on dating apps — including from anyone who thinks it's the wrong question.

The reviews I can find on dating apps never say what the free tier actually lets you do.

My own attempt at dating apps lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps, and london is where I would start looking.

The short list of what I need from dating apps:

• Whether london is the reason dating apps feels inconsistent
• How dating apps handles london compared with the bigger names
• Whether dating apps is honest about london up front
• How dating apps treats london once you stop paying
• How the london experience on dating apps compares month to month

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

Read the small print on london before you commit to anything around dating apps.

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

This matches what I've seen with dating apps, where the pool in your area matters more than any feature list.

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

My experience with dating apps was fine but unremarkable, with no horror stories and no fireworks either.

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on dating apps are more use than any ranked list, and london is where I would start looking.

The london element is where people get stung with dating apps, so check it before anything else.

The london disagreement in this thread says more about dating apps than any single answer.

Someone recommended the Datebie free tier to me during my own search around dating apps and it was better than I expected.

I gave up on dating apps twice before it worked, and the difference the third time was being far more specific in my bio.

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

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

Someone will probably mention Datewander.site before this thread is done.