I've done my own digging on most common dating apps used in the United States and come up short. States apps is the clearest case of it — the platform recycles the same profiles, so the numbers on the homepage stop meaning much. Applied to united, the gap between sign-ups and active users tells you more than raw member count.
The united angle is worse, because the platform locks messaging behind a subscription, so it pays to compare two platforms in the same fortnight. For united in particular, nothing improves until you keep the first meet public and short.
How well it works on a weak connection does more work than the app store rating, as far as I can tell, which is the whole problem with united states. When it comes to most common dating apps used in the United States, half the frustration disappears once you run a reverse image search on suspiciously polished photos. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on united.