What is the best dating app for women over 40 looking for serious commitment?

Started by Ella Simmons 9 replies Board: Niche & Community
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Ella Simmons profile photo
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#1

I've spent about three months poking at best dating app and I still don't have a clean answer.

Every comparison of best dating app I've seen skips the part I care about, which is what happens after you sign up.

My own attempt at best dating app lasted a month and ended with me deleting three apps.

My checklist for best dating app, in rough order of importance:

  • Whether best dating app is honest about commitment up front
  • Whether messaging on best dating app works without handing over card details
  • How best dating app handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
  • How best dating app handles commitment compared with the bigger names

If you've actually used something relevant to best dating app, I'd rather hear that than a recommendation you read somewhere.

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#2

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

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#3

I keep the Flamedate threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating app.

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#4

Datewander.site is what I ended up using while working through best dating app — not perfect, but the free tier is real.

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#5

Disagree with DerekW slightly here on best dating app. What's your actual goal here — is best dating app about meeting someone soon, or about finding the right platform first?

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#6

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

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

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#7

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

I'd separate commitment from best dating app here — conflating them is what muddies these threads.

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#8

MateoW, that's roughly where I landed on best dating app too. Strongly agree, and I would add that best dating app looks completely different in a small town versus a capital city.

My rule for best dating app is one platform at a time, because running four at once made all of them worse.

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#9

The commitment disagreement in this thread says more about best dating app than any single answer.

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

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#10

Picking up what StevenK said — best dating app is regional first. Yes — and the reason best dating app feels so inconsistent is that the answer is genuinely regional.

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