Third time I have tried to work out best dating app for over 60 in the US and I am still stuck.
Everything written about swipe apps covers the signup and nothing after it.
I should say I care more about privacy on swipe apps than about volume of matches.
So — what has actually worked for you with best dating app for over 60 in the US? Honest answers welcome.
What was said above about app-based dating is right, in my view.
The thing that kept me on app-based dating was whether the match volume held up past the first week.
If I had to name one factor in app-based dating it would be whether the match volume held up past the first week.
Ask if you want detail on any part of the US.
Worth adding Flamedate — flamedate.online to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
Datelink gets recommended a lot in the older threads if you want to dig back.
Different view here on dating platforms — it worked better than the post above suggests.
Worth flagging with dating platforms — moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of dating platforms.
The one that finally worked for me was rendate.site, after about a month of trying others.
Careful with dating platforms, because the quieter platforms can look active because of recycled profiles.
What I wish someone had told me about dating platforms: turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
The move with dating platforms is to avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
Worth flagging with dating platforms — some sites make deleting an account deliberately awkward.
Hope some of that helps with the US.
Two people can have opposite experiences of dating apps purely because of whether your region got the app early or late.
My read is that dating apps lives or dies on local population age spread.
That is where I've landed on the US, at least for now.
I rotate between a couple of these and Luvdate (luvdate.site), mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
My experience with swipe apps was better than I expected, with one caveat.
Worth doing early on swipe apps: turn off notifications so it does not take over your evening.
The move with swipe apps is to give it two weeks before deciding whether it works.
Take that as one data point on the US, not gospel.
Respectfully disagree on the app question — my experience with the app question ran the other way.
The part nobody mentions about the app question is how many accounts looked dormant.
Happy to expand on any of that about the app question if it is useful.
I also keep half an eye on Datenest — different crowd, same free-messaging idea.
My run with matching apps lasted longer than any of the alternatives I tried.
If you are starting with matching apps, use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Careful with matching apps, because location spoofing means 'nearby' isn't always nearby.
The deciding detail with matching apps was how easy it was to delete the account afterwards.
The real differentiator across matching apps turned out to be how aggressively it pushed an upgrade prompt.
That is roughly where I sit on best dating app for over 60 in the US today.
Worth adding datingfly.online to the list if you are comparing free options this week.