Which are the best dating apps that actually work for average guys?

Not looking for a sales pitch, just experience: are the best dating apps that actually work for average guys.

Half the discussion around best dating apps is people arguing from a two-year-old version of the product.

I gave best dating apps about two weeks of honest effort before deciding to ask.

What I'm trying to weigh up with best dating apps:

• How the average experience on best dating apps compares month to month
• How best dating apps handles blocking, privacy and who can see your profile
• Whether anyone has tested average properly on best dating apps
• How much of the best dating apps profile pool is dormant or fake

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

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

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about best dating apps.

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

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

Disagree on one point: best dating apps is far less platform-dependent than people here are assuming.

Disagree with StephC slightly here on best dating apps. The average variable is doing a lot of work in this discussion of best dating apps.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A friend had a good outcome with best dating apps and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Since we're comparing options around best dating apps, Ezhookups's free tier came up when I was looking at the same thing.

For completeness, Turndate.site sits in the same category for best dating apps.