How we review dating platforms

What we check on every platform

These are the checks, in full. They are the same five columns published in theLow-Tech Entry Index, because the checklist and the published data are one thing, not two.

1. Can you complete sign-up in a desktop browser, without a smartphone?We open the sign-up on a computer and go through it to the end. If it stops to demand an app, a text message code, or a camera, we record where it stopped.
2. Can you see real profiles before you hand over money?We look at what a free account actually shows: whole profiles, blurred photos, or a wall asking for a card.
3. Is there a phone number, and does a person pick it up?We find the number on the platform’s own site and call it once, in its stated hours, and record what happened.
4. Does the text get bigger without the page falling apart?We enlarge the text in the browser and check that nothing overlaps, disappears off the side, or becomes unclickable.
5. Can a paid subscription be cancelled without phoning anyone?We look for the cancel path in the account settings and record whether it is there, or whether it routes you to a phone call or a retention chat.

Alongside those, we record the price shown at the moment of the check and the exact page we were looking at, so anyone can repeat the check and disagree with us.

Why there are no scores and no ranking

We do not give marks out of ten, we do not weight anything, and there is no "best" at the bottom of the page. A score is a judgement dressed as a measurement: it compresses observations you can verify into one number you cannot. What matters — can I sign up on my computer, can I look before I pay, can I cancel without a phone call — is different for each reader, and a single number hides exactly the answer they came for. So we publish the observations and let you weigh them.

The same reasoning is why nothing here is described as a winner. A platform that suits someone who lives on their phone may be the wrong one for someone who does not own a smartphone, and neither of them is a higher score.

What "not checked" means

A cell reads not checked when we have not run that check ourselves on that platform. It is not a criticism of the platform and it does not mean "probably no". It means the observation does not exist yet, and we would rather say so than fill the gap. Cells are never left blank and never inferred from how a similar platform behaves.

How we check

One person on the editorial team opens the platform, works through the checks on the live product, writes down what happened, and records the date and the URL. That is the whole method. What we do not do matters as much:

• We do not aggregate other sites' reviews or user sentiment and present it as our own observation.
• We do not invent test accounts and then describe them as real people with histories.
• We do not publish screenshots of other members' profiles.
• We do not quote a price we could not load ourselves on the platform's own pricing page.

Which platforms we include

A platform is worth covering here if it genuinely has people in their sixties and seventies using it, and if there is a way in for someone who is not smartphone-first: a desktop website, a published support number, type that survives being made larger, and no compulsory video step at sign-up. Platforms that fail all of that are still allowed on the page — we say so, with the date, rather than quietly leaving them out.

We exclude platforms we cannot get into to check: invitation-only services, apps with no desktop or web path at all, and anything that requires payment before a single screen is visible. An unverifiable platform gets no entry rather than a hedged one.

How often we re-check

Platforms change their sign-up flows and their prices without telling anyone, so every observation carries its own date and ages in public. We re-run the checks on the platforms we cover on a rolling basis and update the date when we do. Where a check is old enough that we would not rely on it ourselves, it is pulled rather than left standing — an undated claim is worth less than no claim.

Affiliate links

MeetOver60 is funded by affiliate commissions. Some links to platforms pay us if you sign up through them, at no extra cost to you, and every one of those links is marked where it appears. The commission has no effect on what the checks say, on the order platforms appear in, or on whether a platform is covered at all — and because we publish no ranking, there is no placement to sell in the first place.

If a platform we earn from starts making it harder to cancel, drops its phone support, or misrepresents what it charges, that goes on the page with the date we saw it, and if it stands we stop linking to it. The full funding statement is in oureditorial policy.

Who publishes this

MeetOver60 is published by a brand, not by a named individual, and no page here claims a person wrote it. Articles are prepared with the help of AI tools and then read, checked and edited by the editorial team before they go up; the team is answerable for every published claim. We do not invent authors, we do not attach professional credentials to a byline, and we are not therapists, lawyers or financial advisers. More onwho we are.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, or true but out of date, tell us:hello@meetover60.com. We correct factual errors within a week, note the correction on the page, and change the date. Stale is a kind of wrong, so a platform that has changed its sign-up or its pricing is worth an email too.

Where the checks are used

The same checks sit behind theLow-Tech Entry Index, thepricing index, and every platform page acrossdating sites for people over 60 anddating over 70.