What are the top dating apps for lgbtq youth to meet safely?

Every time top dating apps comes up somewhere else, the thread turns into an advert. Hoping this one doesn't.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on top dating apps and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

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

If it helps, here is how I'm scoring top dating apps:

• Whether the matching in top dating apps does anything beyond distance
• How visible top dating apps keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• Whether lgbtq is worth prioritising over everything else in top dating apps
• What happens to your data if you delete a top dating apps account
• Whether lgbtq makes any material difference to top dating apps

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

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

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

TamaraJ, that's roughly where I landed on top dating apps too. For context on top dating apps: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

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

Picking up what TamaraJ said — top dating apps is regional first. Have you looked at the lgbtq side of top dating apps yet, or still on the basics?

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

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on top dating apps, so nobody repeats what you know?

Which parts of top dating apps have you already tested, so nobody here repeats it back to you?

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

For completeness, Datenest.site sits in the same category for top dating apps.