Awards

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Plenty of Fish (POF)

The Editor's Top Pick - Over All award recipient for 2021 is Plenty of Fish. This dating service also won our best free dating service award as well. It should be no surprise that POF is a winner of both awards thank to their large member base which makes it easy to find potential partners. In fact, compared to other dating services, you are 2.7 times more likely to have a conversation with another member in the first 24 hours of joining. That is because thanks to free messaging for all members, in one single day more than 17 million conversations happen on POF.

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Zoosk

The Editor's Top Pick - Paid award recipient for 2021 is Zoosk. With the ongoing pandemic this year and the increased use of online dating services, questions visitors have sent us has solidified our thinking on what makes a good paid dating app. When we reviewed our list of apps to compare and pick our choice, Zoosk came out on top.

With Zoosk's recent acquisition by Spark Networks late in 2019 they have made strides to improve an already good dating service, and have succeeded.

Recipient
Plenty of Fish

The recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Free award for 2021 is Plenty of Fish. POF has won this award 4 times since 2016 and this year makes it the fifth time in a row. The free dating service category is extremely competitive and POF has managed to stay on top over the last decade and a half thanks to their continued improvements along with the success their members find when they use the service. A statistic that points to this services popularity is, in the last 5 years the POF dating apps have been downloaded over 73 million times (for iOS and Android). The reason that POF members enjoy a 30% success rate in only 4 short weeks or less, is because over 17 million conversations are exchanged every day. Singles who join POF are on their to find dates, and since it is free to use, everyone participates making your chances of finding love that much better.

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WooPlus

The Editor's Top Pick - Up & Coming award recipient for 2021 is WooPlus. This dating service for plus sized singles has seen a huge increase in registrations this year. This is thanks in part to their continued innovation in the niche. We are not the only ones to notice either as WooPlus in 2020 was also a top trending dating app on Google Play and a Google Play Editor’s Choice. Thanks to this increased visibility and major media outlets like Vice and People taking notice, WooPlus now has over 5 million users signup since they launched in 2015.

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Stitch

The 2021 Editor's Top Pick - Innovative award recipient is Stitch. This is a community and companionship website for men and women 50 years and older. It offers many features of a dating service but also a whole lot more. A large part of this service is community members organizing activities allowing people to meetup virtually or in-person. Activities range from book clubs to dinners and can be where just friends are meeting up, or for those seeking romantic possibilities. You can also use Stitch to reach out to other members who are looking to specifically meet someone looking for a partner.

So how has Stitch been innovative?

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Adult FriendFinder

The Editors Top Pick - Hookup award winner for 2021 is Adult Friend Finder. This site is the Pornhub of online hookup dating. Everyone has heard of it and it is ideal for open-minded people looking for a quick hookup or no-strings-attached relations. While the user interface is stuck in the past, you can't get around the fact that most people on the site are real. That cannot be said for other hookup sites that look flashy but instead use paid employees to act as members with their only goal to get you spend more money on messaging. Unfortunately this niche is filled with these type of misleading sites.