What are the best apps for finding a date tonight without spending hours swiping?

Curious where people land on the best apps for finding a date tonight without spending hours swiping, because I keep getting told two opposite things. Everything I have read about apps date tonight skips straight past the effort-to-result ratio.

I have tried a few options across what is on offer already and none of them stuck. For regulars here, the apps date tonight experience lives or dies on the hours-to-dates ratio and almost nothing else.

What would actually help me judge apps date tonight:

• Turn off read receipts on apps date tonight if the time it costs is making you anxious about response times
• Set the radius wider than feels comfortable if the apps date tonight pool near you is thin
• Run apps date tonight beside one other option so you have a baseline for actually getting anywhere
• Give apps date tonight a fortnight of daily use before calling actually getting anywhere a dealbreaker

Any first-hand experience with the best apps for finding a date tonight without spending hours swiping is welcome, good or bad.

@Grant_88 makes a fair point about apps date tonight, but seconding this, because on apps date tonight the honest answer is that the effort-to-result ratio varies enormously by area.

If the effort-to-result ratio is your main worry with apps date tonight, test it in the first week rather than the first month.

Somebody in another apps date tonight thread pointed me at Ezhookups and it held up better than expected on the return on the hours.

Disagree, because blaming the hours-to-dates ratio lets you off the hook — my apps date tonight results improved when my profile did.

The thing people underrate about apps date tonight is how much the return on the hours depends on your own city. For people replying above, the apps date tonight experience lives or dies on the payoff and almost nothing else.

That has not been my experience of apps date tonight, and I have used it longer than most people in this thread. You can work around the payoff on apps date tonight, but you have to be deliberate about it.

Most of the noise about apps date tonight comes from people measuring the payoff over far too short a window. Not saying apps date tonight suits everyone, but it's not the disaster this thread implies.

I will push back here, because apps date tonight worked fine for me and the payoff was never the issue. Nobody warns you that actually getting anywhere on apps date tonight scales with how many people are online at your hours.

Nobody warns you that the payoff on apps date tonight scales with how many people are online at your hours. I judge apps date tonight by one thing now: whether the hours-to-dates ratio improves or worsens once you're past the novelty.

A smaller name people rarely mention in apps date tonight threads is Flurrydate.

Different experience on apps date tonight, where the hours-to-dates ratio turned out to be manageable once I changed how I used it.

You can work around the effort-to-result ratio on apps date tonight, but you have to be deliberate about it. The thing people underrate about apps date tonight is how much the effort-to-result ratio depends on your own city.

I would argue the opposite on apps date tonight: the time it costs is the one thing it handles better than the options here.

There is no version of apps date tonight where the time it costs sorts itself out without you doing something. Happy to answer follow-ups on apps date tonight if that helps.

Somebody in another apps date tonight thread pointed me at Luvdate and it held up better than expected on the payoff.

I read NinaB's reply on apps date tonight and that feels too harsh on apps date tonight, given the payoff is a problem across the options here rather than specific to it.

Honestly, the payoff was less of a problem on apps date tonight than the sheer time it ate. Your apps date tonight results will vary by city more than by platform.