Worth flagging with free-tier sites — screenshots of a conversation travel further than you think.
Be aware when using free-tier sites that requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
What mattered most with free-tier sites in the end was whether the free tier let you see who liked you.
Whether free-tier sites works comes down to whether your region got the app early or late more than anything the marketing mentions.
One warning about free-tier sites: anything asking for card details to 'verify your age' is a scam pattern.
If you are starting with free-tier sites, keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
Happy to expand on any of that about free-tier sites if it's useful.
If none of the above works for you, datebie.online is another free one people here mention a lot.
Older threads lean fairly heavily on Datelink if you want a second opinion.