Is Bumble or Hinge better for women looking for younger guys?

Spent the weekend reading about bumble or Hinge better for women looking for younger guys and came away more confused. The only metric I trust with women looking is whether it is genuinely free or free until you try to reply on mobile.

The reason I am asking about women looking at all is that every source has something to sell, so recent replies matter more than thorough ones. For women looking, whether the block list holds in practice is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

My shortlist when weighing women looking this year:

• Verify how quickly a scripted account gives itself away against what the marketing page claims
• Sanity-check what the filters do after a page refresh before you commit any time to it
• Watch what the filters do after a page refresh before you upload a second photo
• Look at what happens to your visibility after a week of silence against what the marketing page claims

If you gave up on women looking, what should I check first? Recent wins and recent regrets both help me decide. Short replies settle this better than anything else.

Going to push back on @AubreyW here. Women looking behaved very differently for me. My rule with women looking: whether the profiles hold up under scrutiny first, everything else second. Worth a look at Datebie's free tier if you want a second data point.

The rough checklist I use for women looking if you're short on time:

• Note how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands on the first evening, not the first month
• Count whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out on the first evening, not the first month
• Pin down how many matches ever send the first message before you commit any time to it
• Confirm how the web version differs from the app against one platform you already trust

That's my read on women looking, may not hold for you.

My read: women looking did roughly what I expected, no more. Anyone comparing women looking should be looking at whether the activity is real or recycled before anything else. Someone here pointed me at Datescout these days and it held up better than expected.

If you are evaluating women looking, start with how much of the layout is ads on mobile — everything else follows.

That's where I've landed on women looking, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

@AubreyW that matches the marketing for women looking, not what I found using it. I judge women looking almost entirely on what the search filters can actually do. what Rendate is doing solved about half of this for me.

What nobody mentions about women looking is how fast it loads on a bad connection on mobile.

That's my read on women looking, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

@Evelyn might be right in principle, but women looking rarely behaves that cleanly. The thing that decides it for women looking is whether you can hide distance and last-active after the first week. Genuinely surprised by the datenest.site crowd after low expectations.

Where women looking falls down for me is how the matching logic appears to work in practice.

That's the short version on women looking, anyway.

After a fair bit of testing: there is a version of women looking that works, and it is not the default one. The honest test for women looking is how many accounts are real in practice, not the feature list. People keep recommending what Datelink is doing; it is at least worth ten minutes.

That's where I have landed on women looking, may not hold for you.