My working checklist for plenty of fish app, refined over a few months:
- how the visibility toggles behaves once you actually use plenty of fish
- how the free tier behaves once you actually use plenty of fish
- if the free tier is genuinely enforced — worth checking before you commit to plenty of fish
Having tried a fair few, I would say habits matter more than app choice when it comes to plenty of fish.
What changed my results with plenty of fish was tightening my location radius.
What changed my results with plenty of fish was rewriting the opening line entirely.
How many matches actually respond is worth more attention than the size of the database, at least in my experience with plenty of fish.
The tell with plenty of fish is usually how generic the opening line is.