This has been bugging me for weeks, so: dating app for old people. Same story on smartphone apps: the platform surfaces profiles far outside your radius, so it pays to cancel the trial the day you start it. It is worth checking the proportion of dormant accounts before you look at the size of the database, which is the whole problem with smartphone require.
The smartphone angle is worse, because what decides it is the amount of recycled content, not the badge on the download page. If smartphone require is your priority, how much sits behind the paywall is a better predictor than how slick the interface looks, for what it is worth. Applied to require apps, you get further if you keep a note of what you actually spent.
For smartphone require in particular, nothing improves until you log the times of day your messages get answered. Most threads about dating app for old people miss this — the platform buries the cancellation flow, and how honest the pricing page is suffers for it. Specifics about smartphone apps welcome — vague reassurance less so.