If you’ve decided to take the plunge and really commit to online dating in order to find a serious relationship, you probably want to use the best dating site possible. Maybe you just got out of something long-term (or you got out of it ages ago but just recovered), or maybe you’ve been playing the …

We all know the basics of how Bumble works: it’s the app where women take control, with the impetus on them to start the conversation. This twist on the usual dating app setup, and mild twist on gender norms, were intended to create a welcoming space online for women. If you haven’t been keeping up …

As eharmony has been around since the year 2000, essentially pre-history in internet terms, it’s fair to ask whether the site is still a good place to look for a partner. In the over-saturated online dating world of today, there are so many apps and dating sites that it’s hard to keep track of them, …

Sometimes you find someone so perfect on a dating app that you need them to see your right swipe and give you one back ASAP. I mean, you would never admit it to your mates, but late at night lying on the sofa in your boxers, drinking a beer and swiping through Bumble, sometimes you …

Hinge is a dating app that claims it is ‘designed to be deleted’. The logic behind Hinge was that Tinder is too superficial, focusing as it does on pictures and quippy bios over in-depth personal info. Millennials and Gen Z daters want more than that, but they don’t want the long personality quizzes and clunky …

The short answer: Yes, of course over 40s can use Tinder. The long answer: Yes, of course over 40s can use Tinder, but they might not want to. And the full and complete answer is… well… this entire article you’re about to read. Because it’s not as simple as a yes or no. Tinder is …

Hinge might be the app that’s designed to be deleted, with its focus on actual connections and meaningful relationships (that’s what the developers want it to be, anyway!), but let’s be real, all dating apps are also kind of designed to be screenshotted! Or at least it’s hard to resist snapping a screenshot every now …

Zoosk is a worldwide success and has been for a long time. The dating site, which has recently been purchased by dating-behemoth Spark Networks, debuted in 2007 and has been going from strength to strength ever since. Or it was until free dating apps became the norm. In the last couple of years, a lot …

Elite Singles is a dating site for adults with extensive educations and/or high-flying jobs to find matches who are equally successful. Most users hold at least a bachelor’s degree, and many have impressive job titles. But really the ‘Elite’ part of the marketing shouldn’t distract you too much. In my opinion, the bigger feature of …

It can be daunting to date in later life, especially if the last time you were on the market your options were meeting through friends, sending your info to a newspaper’s matching pages, or getting really chatty at the bar. Online dating is its own micro-society, and it has its own rules. There’s no shame …