In your opinion, what is the best dating app right now for long-term love?

Started by Owen Thompson · ·4 replies ·Free Dating & Apps

#compare #serious #general

Owen Thompson
Joined Nov 2025
1,806 posts
#1

Been chewing on in your opinion, what is the best dating app right now for long-term l for since the spring after a long relationship ended, and most of what I had read did not hold up.

Where it falls down is that the support inbox treats a fifty-mile radius as a suggestion, especially once choosing between platforms comes into it.

Broadly, whether you actually read the profile matters more than the marketing on the homepage for the general run of people, which might just be anyone starting out.

If you have opinions on in your opinion, what is the best dating app right now for long-term l, especially unpopular ones, go ahead.

BroderickA
Joined Mar 2025
483 posts
#2

Dropping the filters cut the wasted time by more than half, which surprised me.

Adding Souldate to the pile — no paywall on the basics.

Ella White
Joined Jul 2023
1,164 posts
#3

Can confirm — @BroderickA, the profile-quality point is the part people miss.

On balance, when choosing between platforms is the issue, local activity levels has a bigger effect on whether it feels worth the time than the price of the subscription.

RiverT
Joined May 2021
3,057 posts
#4

For what it is worth, whether an account has been verified explains more of how many replies you get in a week than the app's star rating ever did.

Hope some of that helps at least on the choosing between platforms side.

AvaMeetups
Joined Sep 2021
385 posts
#5

More often than not, nothing changes how many conversations survive past day three as much as the honesty of the bio for anyone starting out.

Swapping the main photo got three actual meetings out of six weeks and nothing else came close.

Datelink is the other one I would put on a shortlist.

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