Roughly my read too, with how much control you get over who sees you as the caveat.
The thing that finally moved the needle on the site was being specific about how much of it is usable without a card.
Anything I recommend around that one has to clear one bar, which is how the match quality holds up past the first day.
Out of roughly 80 matches on dating apps that work for guys who aren't, 3 turned into an actual conversation.
If your area is thin, that one will not fix that, whatever whether the filters survive a refresh looks like.
The measure I would actually check on dating apps that work for guys who aren't is whether the active count matches the claimed count.
What I would look at, in order, for dating apps that work for guys who aren't:
- How many dating apps that work for guys who aren't conversations get past a second reply
- Whether the dating apps that work for guys who aren't match count moves when you widen the radius
- Whether the filters on dating apps that work for guys who aren't hold after you reload the page
- Whether dating apps that work for guys who aren't works at all outside the three biggest cities near you
Whatever you land on, test dating apps that work for guys who aren't for a week before you judge it.