The Best Christian Dating Sites for Seniors in 2024

Overview

SilverSingles isn’t aimed specifically at Christians, but 80 percent of its users are 50 or older. To find other Christians, we simply filtered by religion. SilverSingles is a great place to look if you’re looking not just for a Christian, but also for one around your age.

Standout Features

Unlike Christian Cafe, which requires a brief, five-minute personality quiz, SilverSingles requires a much lengthier personality assessment. When we tested the site, we specified what we were looking for, including our desired ages and religions, as well as basic facts about ourselves, such as our job, income bracket, and favorite first-date activities.

SilverSingles aimed to go a bit deeper with its compatibility quiz. It wasn’t exactly clear what each question was screening for, but we looked at pictures and clicked the ones we identified with the most. The most memorable pictures were of a few desks: one clean, one sort of clean, and one messy. Being control freaks, we clicked the super-clean option, and we assumed SilverSingles would match us with other neat freaks. Count us in!

Pricing

SilverSingles is not quite as cheap as Christian Cafe — it starts at about $20 a month versus  Christian Cafe’s $10 — but that’s pretty average for dating sites. SilverSingles also offers a completely free version, not just a free trial.

SilverSingles Membership Costs

Months of subscription	Monthly cost	Total
3 months	$39.95	$119.85
6 months	$22.95	$137.70
12 months	$19.95	$239.40

With the free version, however, the photos were blurred and we couldn’t message people. We could only search and like, making a paid subscription nearly mandatory.

What Others Are Saying

SilverSingles has a 1.3 rating on Consumer Affairs and a 2.5 rating on Trustpilot, which was pretty disappointing. People appreciated the personality test, safety features, and large number of seniors on the site, but they complained about the limited free membership and algorithm that shows you more the more you use the site. The solution? Log on to SilverSingles at least once a day to show you’re an active user looking for love.

Drawbacks

Because SilverSingles isn’t specific to Christians, we had trouble finding specific information about people’s religion and religious involvement without asking them directly. On a Christian-specific site like Christian Cafe, we could filter so we saw only people with our exact denomination and church involvement. This took a bit more legwork.

Our Verdict

If dating a fellow senior is important to you and you’re willing to put in the time to find a person whose religion is compatible with yours, we recommend SilverSingles.

To learn more about the site, read our full SilverSingles review.

Overview

If you’re a single Christian seeking the same, consider Christian Cafe. It allows only Christians who are not legally married. The best part? We tried it for 10 days, completely free of charge.

Standout Features

Because Christian Cafe is specific to Christians, it allowed us to get really granular with exactly what we were looking for. There are nearly 45,000 denominations of Christianity, according to the Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and people have different levels of church involvement, from weekly attendance to only going to Christmas mass. We appreciated that Christian Cafe let us filter by denomination and church involvement. We didn’t see that feature on sites that weren’t specific to Christians, such as SilverSingles.

Another feature we appreciated was the app’s security. To hide our identity, we initially uploaded generic headshots we found on the internet. Christian Cafe actually rejected those headshots and didn’t allow us to upload them to our profiles, which gave us peace of mind that everyone on the site is a real person.

Pricing

After the 10-day free trial ends, Christian Cafe requires you to pay to continue using the site. Memberships start as low as $9.99 per month, and the lowest prices go to users who pay for a year of the service in advance.

Christian Cafe Membership Costs

Term length	Price per month	Total amount billed
1 month	$39.97	$39.97
3 months	$19.99	$59.97
6 months	$16.67	$99.97
12 months	$9.99	$119.97

The prices are pretty reasonable, especially with the annual commitment. Many dating websites, such as Christian Mingle and SilverSingles, start at around $20 to $25 a month.

What Others Are Saying

Christian Cafe has a 3.8-star rating (out of five) on Trustpilot from six reviews, the highest overall rating of any site on this list. Customers praised the site for its members, who are serious about finding a relationship based on faith. Some people found that there weren’t enough members, but that would probably be true of any dating site. You’ll find fewer people in less densely populated areas. As one member recommended, simply expand your search area to find more people.

Drawbacks

We were pleased with the customer screening Christian Cafe did, but its privacy policy concerned us. It admitted that employees can see customer passwords, credit card information, and usernames completely unencrypted. The company also sells member information, albeit aggregated, to third parties. If you want a more secure company, check out SilverSingles, which encrypts user data and does not sell it to third parties.

Our Verdict

Despite the cybersecurity issues, Christian Cafe is a great way to get into the Christian online dating game. If you want something more specific than just “Christian,” it’s the place for you.

Overview

Like Christian Cafe, Christian Mingle includes only Christians, and the company claims it has the highest percentage of Christians of any dating site globally. One thing Christian Mingle has that Christian Cafe doesn’t is in-person events, which allow you a hybrid dating experience in real life and online.

Standout Features

Besides Match, Christian Mingle is the only site on this list to offer in-person events across the U.S. On Valentine’s Day 2024, for example, the site offered a speed dating event in the Astoria neighborhood of New York City, as well as a singles party in Austin, Texas.

Since we were in New York City at that time, we popped into the speed dating event and met 15 singles, all from the ages of 25 to 40, for three minutes each. The event was held at a cute tavern called Katch and included free appetizers and drinks. The event wasn’t available for seniors, but not all events have such an age limit and we think meeting in person is a quicker way to determine compatibility than endless swiping or messaging.

In addition to the in-person events, we also liked that we could filter by religion and church attendance as well as the typical categories such as height and marital status. That made it easy to find not only other Christians, but also people of a similar faith.

Pricing

We’ll be frank: Christian Mingle is on the expensive side, with prices starting around $25 a month if you sign up for six months. There also is no annual subscription option. There is a free version with unblurred photos, but messaging someone requires a subscription.

The prices may be worth it, however, if you’re interested in the in-person events.

Christian Mingle Membership Pricing

Term length	Cost per month	Total amount billed
1 month	$49.99	$49.99
3 months	$34.99	$104.97
6 months	$24.99	$149.94

What Others Are Saying

Christian Mingle has low customer ratings — a 1.8 on Consumer Affairs and a 1.4 on Trustpilot, from a total of 136 reviews. Let’s start with what people liked: the large number of people on the website, the free trial, and the focus on long-term relationships, which most singles on the site wanted. Not surprisingly, however, people weren’t happy with the premium membership’s prices.

Drawbacks

Christian Mingle says it has almost 60,000 new sign-ups per month. That may seem like a lot, but SilverSingles gets over 381,000 new members each month. Christian Mingle may not be the biggest pool of singles, but it is a pool filled only with Christians.

Our Verdict

If you’re OK with paying a little extra for in-person events, you’ll love getting to know people — both in-person and online — with Christian Mingle.

Overview

Christian Dating for Free, also known as CDFF, offers free Christian dating. We didn’t even have to sign up to see the singles in our area, and we didn’t have to pay to message them either. If you want to meet singles fast without paying a dime, CDFF is for you.

Standout Features

Unsurprisingly given its name, CDFF is a free Christian dating app. Other sites have free trials or even free versions, but most come with some pretty major caveats. With Christian Mingle, for example, we could see unblurred photos but couldn’t message any cuties we found.

Things were the opposite at Eharmony, where the photos were blurred but we could message them anyway (“Hi, blurry man!”). With CDFF, however, we could see, message, and like people for free. There are some premium features available, as we detail below, but none of them are essential for dating.

Perhaps related to its comprehensive free version, CDFF is the largest Christian dating site in the world. That makes sense, since people don’t want to shell out money just to meet a fellow Christian! If you want a large pool of only Christians, CDFF is the best of both worlds.

Pricing

We were happy with the free option, but there are paid subscriptions to Christian Dating for Free that range from about $15 to $30 per month.

Christian Dating for Free Membership Pricing

Term length in months	Cost per month	Total amount billed
1	$29.99	$29.99
3	$16.66	$49.99
6	14.99	$89.99

What do these subscriptions offer?

• Push notifications when your “favorites” go online
• Get your profile shown first on searches
• Keep messages for more than 90 days
• No ads
• See the last time someone logged in and if your sent messages were deleted
• Send as many messages per day as you want
• Upload more pictures to your profile

Those features are nice to have, but they’re not essential. That means the site is functional without a paid subscription.

What Others Are Saying

Christian Dating for Free doesn’t have reviews on Consumer Affairs, but customers on Trustpilot gave it 1.9 out of five stars from 24 reviews total. Unfortunately, 80 percent of the reviews were one star. What gives?

People were not too happy when they realized the site isn’t completely free (since a paid version exists) and the free version has annoying pop-ups. Many users also were not active and the user experience wasn’t great, with buttons that didn’t work and “local” users that weren’t even close. That, however, will depend on where you’re located.

Drawbacks

Because we went with the free version, the desktop website for CDFF had a bunch of annoying pop-up ads. The user experience also wasn’t quite as smooth as a larger, more expensive website like Match.com. It looked like it hadn’t been updated since the early 2000s, and the pop-up banner ads were distracting.

Our Verdict

The website could use an update, but CDFF is one of the best ways to meet Christians online — and it’s completely free.

Overview

Match is the most popular dating app among older adults. According to a 2022 Pew Research survey, 53 percent of U.S. online daters in their 50s, 51 percent of online daters in their 60s, and 41 percent of online daters in their 70s have tried Match. Match’s member statistics show that the 50-and-older demographic is the site’s fastest-growing user base, making up 37 percent of users.

Standout Features

Match is not specific to seniors or Christians, but it has both in high numbers. It’s the No. 1 app older adults use for online dating, eclipsing Eharmony, Tinder, and OkCupid. We could filter by religion and age, so it was still easy to make the large dating pool a bit more niche.

Aside from its popularity among older adults, we loved that, like Christian Mingle, Match has in-person events, which are appropriately called Match Events. Held all across the country, the events let you meet people face to face, with some helpful icebreakers to keep things feeling fun. Just note that the events aren’t included and cost extra. If you choose a paid membership, however, you can get a discount.

Pricing

Match’s prices are pretty middle-of-the-road, with subscriptions starting around $20 a month with an annual package.

Match Membership Pricing

Months of subscription	Monthly cost	Total
3	$39.99	$119.97
6	$24.99	$149.94
12	$19.99	$239.88

There’s also a free version that let us send a limited number of messages and get six Top Picks — profiles the algorithm thought that we’d like — each day. We could see only people who Super Liked us instead of everyone who liked us, though, and we didn’t get read receipts, a monthly boost, or other rewards like the Match Events discount we mentioned. Upgrading isn’t essential, but it will certainly help you meet your person faster.

What Others Are Saying

A total of 3,345 real customers reviewed Match on Consumer Affairs and Trustpilot, giving it overall ratings of 1.7 and 2.1 out of five stars, respectively. People weren’t happy with the prices and that free members could not respond to all their messages. We noticed that many of the reviews were about the people on the site, not the actual site. Some people were unhappy with their subscriptions being renewed automatically, which locked them into another three months. Some claimed that Match refused to give them refunds, even when they canceled in advance.

Drawbacks

Because Match is open to everyone 18 and older and it’s the most popular dating app for older adults, it may take a bit more weeding out than a Christian-specific site like Christian Cafe or Christian Mingle. You can still filter by religion, though, so at least you can talk only to Christians even though they may not be your exact denomination.

Our Verdict

If you want to cast a wide net in your search for love, Match is the way to go. You’ll appreciate its popularity among older adults, its in-person events, and its free version.

To learn more about the site, read our full Match senior dating review.

Overview

Maybe you want a dating website that involves more than filling out a profile and going through endless photos. You’ll appreciate Eharmony, which has a lengthy personality quiz aimed at figuring out who you’re compatible with — not just who you say you want to date.

Standout Features

Similar to SilverSingles, Eharmony has a compatibility quiz that took about 20 minutes to fill out. It asked questions such as:

• Where would you want to live if you could choose anywhere in the world?
• What is the main reason you want a relationship?

It then showed us images — ranging from houses to flowers to random shapes — and had us pick the one we found the most appealing. It also asked what we would do in certain scenarios before we filled out the basic information about our job, education level, height, income, weight, and, of course, religion. From there, we were shown matches that fit not only our criteria, but also our personalities as determined by Eharmony’s compatibility quiz.

Eharmony isn’t specific to Christians or even seniors, but it has a user base of millions and let us filter by age and religion to customize exactly who we wanted to date. We couldn’t get as specific with our filters as we could on Christian websites such as Christian Cafe and Christian Mingle, but Eharmony will give you far more choices if you’re not as picky about the denomination you’d like or you’re willing to chat with people and figure out that information.

Pricing

We’ll be frank: Eharmony is the most expensive dating site we’ve tested. The minimum cost per month is about $30, which is three times the minimum of Christian Cafe. That $30-per-month option also is available only if you sign up for two years, which is far longer than anyone would hope to be on a dating site.

Eharmony Membership Pricing

Term length in months	Cost per month	Total amount billed
6	$59.90	$359.40
12	$39.90	$478.80
24	$29.90	$717.60

We think Eharmony’s prices are high because it has the most brand awareness of any site on this list. According to Statista Consumer Insights, 71 percent of U.S. adults ages 18 to 64 are aware of Eharmony, while 69 percent of adults know about Match and only 55 percent are aware of Christian Mingle. Essentially, you’re paying for a bigger dating pool, because people have to know about a site before they can use it.

What Others Are Saying

Eharmony has the most customer reviews on this list. It has a total of nearly 4,400 across Consumer Affairs, where it has a 1.5 rating, and Trustpilot, where it has a 3.3 rating. Similarly to Match, people complained about Eharmony’s billing and cancellation policies, claiming they got charged even after canceling. Many complained about the lack of new profiles on Eharmony, saying they got the same suggestions over and over. On a positive note, many people, with a little patience, had success meeting romantic partners!

Drawbacks

Of all the dating sites on this list, Eharmony is the most expensive and requires the longest commitment, with subscriptions starting at six months. We prefer sites that offer a one-month option, like Christian Cafe, Christian Mingle, and Christian Dating for Free. Eharmony has a free version, but it showed us only blurred photos and let us message people on a limited basis, so a subscription is definitely necessary.

Our Verdict

Even though Eharmony may be pricey, we think it’s worth it to be in a large dating pool, many of whom are senior Christians just like you.

To learn more about the site, read our full Eharmony senior dating review.