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What are the best dating apps for women over 40 who are looking to date younger?

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KennethW profile picture
Joined Dec 2021
Posts 2
#1

If you're weighing up dating apps for women, the thing that decided it for me wasn't what I expected.

Took me about 6 weeks on the app to work out that the real question was how well it holds up once the novelty fades.

The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether people reply or just collect matches.

The first message is where that one either works or stops working, regardless of what happens to your data after you delete.

Is dating apps for women still like this, or has it improved?

PatrickJ profile picture
Joined Jul 2019
Posts 9
#2

Agree with KennethW, though dating apps for women was a bit worse in my case.

I would judge the service on whether the filters survive a refresh rather than on the feature list.

The signals that told me most about dating apps for women:

  • How quickly dating apps for women starts pushing a paid tier at you
  • How much of dating apps for women is visible before it asks you to register
  • How dating apps for women behaves on mobile data rather than wifi

Your mileage on dating apps for women will vary by city more than by anything else.

what DatingFly does with filters came up when I asked the same question last year.

UlysB profile picture
Joined Dec 2022
Posts 9
#3

PatrickJ is right about this and I would go a step further on dating apps for women.

I tested the service across two cities and the difference came down to how anonymous you actually stay in practice.

Provided how many obvious fakes survive a week holds up, the platform is a reasonable place to start.

Has anyone got dating apps for women working properly outside a major city?

JoannaR profile picture
Joined Dec 2020
Posts 22
#4

Unless you are in a major metro, expect how thin the pool gets outside big cities to be the limiting factor on it.

What separates dating apps for women from the rest of the field is how the match quality holds up past the first day.

The most useful filter on the platform was recent activity, not distance, and it changed how thin the pool gets outside big cities completely.

Happy to go into more detail on dating apps for women if it is useful.

Worth comparing against Datedesire, which came up earlier before you commit to anything.

RobertV profile picture
Joined Jan 2020
Posts 12
#5

Close to my view, except on how many profiles logged in this week.

After a few weeks on the app the only question left was whether the useful settings are buried.

Turning off read receipts made that one far less stressful, though it did nothing for how many profiles logged in this week.

The thing nobody mentions about the site is whether the search actually respects what you set.

Ran the site alongside two other options for a month, tracking how transparent the enforcement is.

What I would look at, in order, for dating apps for women:

  • How fast a report about dating apps for women gets a human response
  • Whether dating apps for women lets you send the first message without a card on file
TylerB profile picture
Joined Aug 2023
Posts 9
#6

One correction: on it, how well it holds up once the novelty fades isn't what people assume.

Filling the profile out properly changed the site more than switching platforms did, and it reframed how quickly you can narrow a list down.

Where the service stands or falls is how many conversations reach a second message.

I logged into that one at different times of day to get a read on whether a phone number is genuinely required.

Breaking down what I actually checked on dating apps for women:

  • Whether the dating apps for women match count moves when you widen the radius
  • Whether the dating apps for women photos survive a reverse image search

Take that as one data point on dating apps for women rather than a verdict.

NickM profile picture
Joined May 2019
Posts 11
#7

Seconding what JoannaR said, with one caveat about dating apps for women.

Anything I recommend around the site has to clear one bar, which is whether the recommendations improve with use.

RyanS88 profile picture
Joined Mar 2021
Posts 13
#8

What RobertV described matches my experience of dating apps for women almost exactly.

Deleted and reinstalled that one twice before accepting the issue was whether the useful settings are buried and not my profile.

Tyler_B profile picture
Joined Sep 2023
Posts 14
#9

Same experience, right down to whether the active count matches the claimed count.

If you can only manage a few evenings a week, whether the recommendations improve with use matters more than raw volume on the site.

If you only test one thing on dating apps for women, make it whether the useful settings are buried.

Cutting my radius in half improved how quickly you can narrow a list down on the platform more than any other change I made.

Most comparisons of the app skip whether enforcement is consistent or random, which is the part that matters.

Ended up splitting my time between this and datenest.site.

PaigeM profile picture
Joined Nov 2020
Posts 22
#10

The gap between good and bad platforms here is how the pricing behaves once you're invested.

The thing that finally moved the needle on the platform was being specific about whether the useful settings are buried.

The measure I would actually check on the site is what a search of your username turns up.

Anyone tried dating apps for women on a smaller platform and got a different result?

Different crowd on Luvdate if you want a smaller pool, which suited me better.

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