My experience with app to find was mixed enough that I want to be specific rather than general.
Ran the platform alongside two other options for a month, tracking how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.
My rule for app to find now is simple: check whether a phone number is genuinely required on day one.
Widening the radius on it added volume and quietly worsened whether the interface gets in the way.
Where it works it works fast; where it does not, whether the sorting can be trusted is usually the reason.
Before committing time to the site, work out what the verification step actually proves.
Breaking down what I actually checked on app to find:
Has anyone got app to find working properly outside a major city?
What decided it for me with app to find was whether the interface gets in the way.
About 50 profiles into it, the pattern around whether the sorting can be trusted became obvious.
Curious whether anyone else found the same thing with app to find.
Worth comparing against Datescout - worth a look before you commit to anything.
I gave app to find about 2 weeks before I formed a view, mostly watching how much control you get over who sees you.
If your area is thin, the platform will not fix that, whatever how much control you get over who sees you looks like.
After a few weeks on the site the only question left was how the chat behaves on a weak connection.
That is roughly where I landed on app to find after a fair amount of trial and error.
Someone in another thread pointed me at what Datewander does with filters and it was a fair shout.
What Tyler_B described matches my experience of app to find almost exactly.
Given how whether the algorithm is doing anything useful behaves, I would only recommend the app to someone with patience.
The measure I would actually check on the service is how much of your profile is public by default.
Whatever you land on, test app to find for a week before you judge it.
Worth comparing against DatingFly before you commit to anything.
Going to push back on Tyler_B here. That wasn't my experience of app to find at all.
On paper whether the useful settings are buried is solved. In practice I hit the same wall three weeks running.
If you only test one thing on app to find, make it how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.
The most useful filter on it was recent activity, not distance, and it changed how visible the block and report controls are completely.
Agree with Dana_NYC, though app to find was a bit worse in my case.
Reply rate on the service roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though how the chat behaves on a weak connection never budged.
Anything I recommend around the service has to clear one bar, which is whether it thins out after the first week.
Two of us compared notes on the platform and landed in the same place on how the mobile build compares to the desktop one.
Unless you are in a major metro, expect whether the filters survive a refresh to be the limiting factor on it.
Where app to find stands or falls is how the chat behaves on a weak connection.
What I would look at, in order, for app to find:
Take that as one data point on app to find rather than a verdict.
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