What is the best black people dating app for finding a spouse?

This topic comes up constantly in my friend group with no consensus. What is the best black people dating app for finding a spouse? Figured this forum would have better-quality takes than most.

The reviews I keep finding are either years old or clearly paid placements. At this point I trust community posts more than any publication.

Drop your take below — even warnings are useful at this point.

I ran through a lot of these last year. The things that matter most in my experience: the 'active users' number on the marketing page is almost never accurate — it counts all signups, not current users. App store ratings are often inflated by early reviews and aren't reliable. Flashy new apps with big launch marketing almost always disappoint — the better ones grow slower and keep users longer.

One that keeps coming up and that I've tested personally is Rendate — real users, functional free tier, no card wall on signup.

Worth looking at datescout.site in addition to whatever else you test — people seem to stick around on it. Took me a couple of months to find something worth actually using. The useful options are fewer than you'd hope.

Gave Ezhookups a proper run after a recommendation here. Surprised by how functional the free version is without hitting a paywall.

Following this one. Same search, no great answers yet.

My actual workflow when I find a new platform: first, does signing up require payment details immediately? If yes, I leave. Second, is there any activity from the last few days? Stale content from weeks ago means the platform is functionally dead. Third, is there community discussion about it somewhere neutral? If nobody's talking about it organically, something's off.

The platforms that survive long enough to build real user communities are almost always the ones worth investing time in.

Don't trust app store star ratings. They are easily inflated and tell you almost nothing about real quality.

Worth adding Souldate to your test list. Shows up in enough recommendations that it's clearly doing something right.