What are the top best dating apps for purely finding long-term love?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: top best dating apps for purely finding long-term love.

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

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

Concretely, for best dating apps, these are my criteria:

• Whether purely is worth prioritising over everything else in best dating apps
• Whether anyone has tested purely properly on best dating apps
• What moderation on best dating apps actually looks like when you report someone

Will report back with what I find on best dating apps if people are interested.

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

Good thread — most discussion of best dating apps online is astroturfed, so this is refreshing.

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

Bookmarking this, because threads like it on best dating apps are more use than any ranked list.

Does purely actually matter for what you want, or is it a side issue for best dating apps?

The purely angle you raise is the part most threads on best dating apps skip entirely.

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

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

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

To build on KatieM's answer about best dating apps: Coming back to this one later, since the range of experience with best dating apps here is genuinely useful.

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

The cheap test for best dating apps is whether you can send one message without a card, and if you cannot, move on.

Set a deadline when you try best dating apps, or it becomes a scrolling habit rather than an actual search.

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

Worth noting that nobody in this thread has agreed on best dating apps yet, which is itself an answer.

Anything promising instant matches around best dating apps is worth treating with suspicion.