Starting a thread on truly catholic dating for free platform because the existing advice contradicts itself. It is worth separating out members of a faith community here, because with truly platforms, you get further if you test the search filters before uploading anything. Catholic is where I would start, since the deciding factor is how honest the pricing page is, from what I have seen.
How far the free tier gets you is the number worth watching, not the size of the database, which is the whole problem with truly platforms. If catholic platforms is your priority, the ratio of matches to conversations collapses as soon as the platform surfaces profiles far outside your radius. Every time catholic comes up, the platform pushes notifications that lead nowhere, and the churn on new sign-ups suffers for it.
Catholic platforms is the clearest case of it — the practical move is to write the bio for one person rather than for everyone. My honest read on truly catholic dating for free platform: what decides it is how well it works on a weak connection, not the size of the database. Tell me where the catholic truly reasoning above falls down.