Dating App & Site Reviews

Lex ditches swiping for old-school personal ads, built specifically for queer women, trans, and nonbinary folks who want words before faces. It's a refreshing format, but the community thins out fast once you leave a handful of big cities.

Taimi packs dating, live video, stories, and social feeds into one LGBTQ+-focused app — which makes it either refreshingly thorough or overwhelming, depending on what you actually wanted from a dating app.

Scruff is the granddaddy of gay dating apps built around a photo grid instead of a swipe deck, with Tribes, travel features, and a bear-and-beard-friendly culture that's stuck around for over a decade.

HER is less a swiping machine and more a queer women's hangout that happens to have a matching feature bolted on — which is exactly why a lot of people stick around even when the matches slow down.

The grid-based app that basically invented modern gay hookup culture is still the biggest room in town — but the free version is designed to wear you down until you pay.

A Christian dating app built for millennials and Gen Z who want faith at the center of their dating life without the churchy stiffness of eHarmony or Christian Mingle.

A dating app built for practicing Catholics who want to marry another practicing Catholic — heavy on questionnaires and church-adjacent values, light on swiping and modern polish.

The site behind those famous 'you don't have to be lonely' commercials is still around, still small, and still weirdly effective for the specific crowd it's built for.

A single-purpose dating site for parents who don't want to explain their kids' school pickup schedule on a fourth date — solid concept, but the execution still feels like it's coasting on 2010s dating-site habits.

Veggly is a small, focused swipe app for vegans and vegetarians who are tired of explaining their diet on a first date. It works fine as a filter but the pool is thin outside major cities.