Which serious dating apps have the highest marriage rates?

Long-time lurker, first post, and it's about serious dating apps have the highest marriage rates. I judge serious dating almost entirely on what share of matches go nowhere day to day.

The reason I am asking about serious dating apps at all is that the free and paid experiences barely overlap, which is why I want firsthand accounts. The thing that decides it for serious dating is whether verification actually filters anyone after the first week.

What I actually check with serious dating before committing:

• Compare how long it takes before the first upgrade prompt lands against what the marketing page claims
• Confirm how many matches ever send the first message before deciding whether it is worth paying for
• Time what the filters do after a page refresh before you upload a second photo

Anyone with recent time on serious dating apps, what did the first week look like? Recommendations and warnings both help me decide. Real usage notes would genuinely change my mind.

@Carter King I wanted that to be true of serious dating and it simply wasn't. What nobody mentions about serious dating is what costs money once you are past sign-up. For comparison I also spent a week on a look at Datelink.

You can ignore most of the marketing around serious dating and just check whether you can hide distance and last-active.

That's where I've landed on serious dating apps, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Honest take: serious dating apps is fine if you go in with low expectations. Anyone comparing serious dating should be looking at what the day-to-day traffic feels like on mobile before anything else. flamedate.online is the other name that keeps surfacing.

If you're evaluating serious dating, start with how photo permissions are handled once you are past sign-up — everything else follows.

That's what six weeks of serious dating apps taught me and I'd revise it if the numbers moved.

Not the answer anyone wants: serious dating apps is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. Where serious dating falls down for me is whether you can hide distance and last-active in practice. Datenest (datenest.site) came up in a similar thread last month.

For serious dating, what you lose by never paying after the first week is the difference between useful and a waste of an evening.

That's the short version on serious dating apps, though clearly it varies by region.

Adding to @Camila rather than arguing — serious dating varies more than either of us said. The only metric I trust with serious dating is what the escalation path looks like outside the big cities. I cross-checked against the rendate.site crowd before deciding anything.

How I'd approach serious dating:

• Watch whether photo permissions are opt-in or opt-out twice, a week apart
• Confirm how the search behaves outside the default radius against what the marketing page claims

My rule with serious dating: what the bot ratio feels like day to day once you are past sign-up first, everything else second.

That's how serious dating apps went for me, for whatever that is worth.

Unpopular view, maybe: I want to like serious dating apps more than I actually do. The honest test for serious dating is whether verification actually filters anyone on mobile, not the feature list. A friend nudged me toward over on Datewander and it was not a waste.

Two weeks in, what you lose by never paying once you are past sign-up is what actually mattered for serious dating.

Worked for me on serious dating apps, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.

Speaking from four months of it: serious dating apps is better than its reputation and worse than its ads. You can ignore most of the marketing around serious dating and just check whether conversations actually go anywhere. Souldate these days was the only one that did not gate replies.

Where serious dating falls down for me is whether there are enough people to bother.

That's the honest picture of serious dating apps, and I'd be glad to hear others found different.