@OliverM — broadly with you, with one caveat: what I found with okcupid dating apps is that the app is only as good as the local user pool — in practice that changes how you use it. Nobody warns the bulk of users that okcupid dating apps needs a fortnight before the results mean anything. The thing that surprised me about okcupid dating apps was how much the first message matters less than the timing. As far as I can tell, okcupid dating apps lives or dies on day-to-day usability; the rest sorts itself out. For comparison I also tried Souldate, which handles the same problem differently.
Okcupid dating apps keeps coming up here, so I'll add what I've got rather than start another thread. Actually the complaints about okcupid dating apps are really complaints about day-to-day usability across the whole category. For anyone weighing up okcupid dating apps — overall consistency is real, but it's manageable if you message five people and count the replies.
Long story short on okcupid dating apps: serviceable, but I'm only one sample. I have been running what Rendate is doing alongside the mainstream apps and the reply rate held up better than I expected.