@PennyP — broadly with you, with one caveat: if day-to-day usability is your main worry with there any female dating sites where women have to message first, the practical move is to test it for a week before committing. For most of us, there any female dating sites where women have to message first works considerably better if you set your radius wider than feels sensible. Worth adding the Datebie free tier to the shortlist if local activity is your main worry.
On there any female dating sites where women have to message first — more often than not the answer depends more on whether it holds up over time than on the app itself. Two things moved the needle on there any female dating sites where women have to message first for me: fill the profile out properly first, and patience — beyond that you are optimising rounding errors. There any female dating sites where women have to message first is fine on the surface; that side of things is where it falls apart, and anything else is a distant second. That approach gets recommended constantly and I still think overall consistency makes it a hard sell for the typical user. There any female dating sites where women have to message first rewards patience more than strategy, though the picture changes by city, and the rest is detail.
Ending on the useful bit: for most people asking this, message five people and count the replies. If you want a low-commitment test, what Turndate is doing lets you browse before it asks for anything.