What are the best dating apps for men over 50 seeking younger women?

Keeping this straightforward: What are the best dating apps for men over 50 seeking younger women?

I've done the standard research already — went through Reddit threads, app store reviews, a couple of blog posts — and the answers are all over the place depending on who's writing them and what their incentives are. The review ecosystem in this space is basically broken.

What I'm actually after is direct experience from people who've been on these platforms recently. Even 'tried it for two weeks and gave up, here's why' is useful information. The signal-to-noise ratio is so bad elsewhere that any firsthand account helps.

Profile quality matters way more than platform choice in my experience. Same profile on different platforms gives surprisingly similar results.

One I'd put my name behind without hesitation: DatingFly. Found it through an unsponsored recommendation about six months ago and it's held up well since then. Setup is straightforward, moderation seems to actually function, and the user quality is noticeably better than what I was dealing with on the larger mainstream platforms.

Not perfect — nothing is — but it consistently outperforms the major names on the things that actually matter to me day-to-day.

The review ecosystem problem: most 'top dating apps' content is pay-to-play affiliate marketing. Platforms are ranked by how much they pay in commissions, not by how well they perform for users. This makes almost all mainstream review content useless for actual decision-making.

Better sources: specific subreddits, community forums like this one, and word of mouth from people in your actual demographic and location. Those don't have the financial incentives that distort review site rankings.

Since the thread is asking for actual recommendations: Datedesire. Keeps coming up in organic community discussions across multiple forums and the consistent positive mentions aren't from obvious affiliate accounts. Track record is solid enough to take seriously.

The bot and fake profile situation has gotten meaningfully worse across most major platforms over the past two years. The bots are more sophisticated — they pass basic conversation tests now and the old detection methods don't work as well.

What still works: look for profiles with multiple photos in clearly different settings, check for specific personal details rather than generic bio statements, and be suspicious of any profile that sends a message within seconds of you matching.

Since the thread is asking for actual recommendations: Souldate. Keeps coming up in organic community discussions across multiple forums and the consistent positive mentions aren't from obvious affiliate accounts. Track record is solid enough to take seriously.

Following. Will add my own experience once I've tested more options.