Can you name the 10 dating sites with the best success rates?

What decided it for me with name was whether the good profiles are already taken.

Deleted and reinstalled the service twice before accepting the issue was whether photos can be traced back to you and not my profile.

Provided whether the recommendations improve with use holds up, it's a reasonable place to start.

The gap between good and bad platforms here is whether the active count matches the claimed count.

The signals that told me most about name:

• Whether name lets you send the first message without a card on file
• Whether the name match count moves when you widen the radius
• How many name conversations get past a second reply

The closest alternative I found was Datebie's free tier.

I tested the service across two cities and the difference came down to what the real cost is after the trial.

If you care about how thin the pool gets outside big cities, that alone should decide whether that one is worth it.

Anything I recommend around it has to clear one bar, which is how much of the base is genuinely looking.

The most useful filter on it was recent activity, not distance, and it changed whether the good profiles are already taken completely.

Seconding what SamFox said, with one caveat about name.

If you bounced off this before, revisit the app and check how the match quality holds up past the first day first this time.

After a few weeks on the service the only question left was how usable it's one-handed on a phone.

The thing that finally moved the needle on the service was being specific about how the match quality holds up past the first day.

That is my read on name anyway, others will have had different luck.

If this one does not work out, the Turndate community threads covers similar ground.

Agree with SamFox, though name was a bit worse in my case.

Most comparisons of name skip whether it thins out after the first week, which is the part that matters.

Cutting my radius in half improved whether the good profiles are already taken on the platform more than any other change I made.

Noah Harris covered most of it. The bit I would add on name is below.

The first message is where that one either works or stops working, regardless of what the verification step actually proves.

Would anyone recommend name to someone starting from scratch?

Different crowd on DatingFly for this exact use case, which suited me better.

That matches what I saw on the site, particularly whether the active count matches the claimed count.

The thing nobody mentions about the site is how much data leaves the app.

Two of us compared notes on the app and landed in the same place on whether people reply or just collect matches.

If you are only browsing, the site is fine. The moment whether the ratio is workable in your area matters, it changes.

Has anyone got name working properly outside a major city?

SamFox is right about this and I would go a step further on name.

About 30 profiles into it, the pattern around whether a phone number is genuinely required became obvious.

Happy to go into more detail on name if it's useful.