What are the most popular dating apps for over 40 in the UK?

Started by Elijah Scott 5 replies Board: Niche & Community
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Elijah Scott profile photo
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#1

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

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

For what it's worth I did test a couple of options around popular dating apps before posting.

Practically speaking, for popular dating apps I want to know:

  • How much of the popular dating apps profile pool is dormant or fake
  • How much popular dating apps actually costs you when using popular dating apps
  • Whether popular dating apps has real users outside the big metros
  • What happens to your data if you delete a popular dating apps account
  • How quickly popular dating apps puts a paywall in front of a conversation that has started

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about popular dating apps.

Mason Clark profile photo
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#2

The popular dating apps variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of popular dating apps.

LilyM profile photo
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#3

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

I'd qualify this: popular dating apps works fine if you're in a city, less so otherwise.

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#4

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

Just flagging that some results you will find for popular dating apps are review farms rather than reviews.

Luna Scott profile photo
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#5

Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with popular dating apps here is genuinely useful.

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#6

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

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