CasualDating

I signed up for the standard plan, which is the cheapest tier, and it covers everything I need for messaging. Sign up was about ten minutes and I got a sensible-looking profile running with no fuss. I've been paying for six months now and the matches have been steady enough to keep me going.

My daughter set it up for me after my husband passed, as I wanted some company and didn't fancy the bars. I've been on it for a good while now and it's been very pleasant. The profiles are easy to read and I've had two lovely dinners.

Wouldn't bother with anything else for this now. The verified profiles mean I'm not wasting evenings on fake accounts, and the date planning feature helped me organise a meet up without the usual back and forth. The app is a bit slow to load on older phones but that's about it. Support has been helpful when I had a question about my subscription and sorted it the same day.

I've used a few of these over the years so I knew what I wanted from the filters. The age and distance settings here actually stick, which sounds minor but it's the thing that stopped me going back to the bigger apps. Messages come through quickly and the safety options are where they should be. Only thing I'd change is the notifications being a bit too frequent.

Honestly it's miles better than the free apps I was using before, people actually reply and don't just send a gif. Setup was quick and I had a match the same night. Not quite as much choice as the bigger ones but the people here seem more keen. Would stick with it.