This has been bugging me for weeks, so: most safe dating apps free of catfish. Applied to catfish apps, what decides it is how honest the pricing page is, not how slick the interface looks. Look closely at catfish apps and the honest advice is to run a reverse image search on suspiciously polished photos, from what I have seen.
Nothing about catfish apps changes the fact that half the frustration disappears once you check what the free tier gates before investing time. Same story on catfish apps: the platform throttles your visibility unless you pay, and how far the free tier gets you suffers for it. The safe apps case is instructive — the time it takes to get a first reply is the number worth watching, not the marketing copy.
Safe apps is where I would start, since the deciding factor is the churn on new sign-ups, though I would want someone to check me on this. The short version on most safe dating apps free of catfish is that nothing improves until you write the bio for one person rather than for everyone. Would especially like to hear from anyone who changed their mind on safe apps.