OurTime Review

flag Dating site for people 50+
  • Wink feature allows you to show interest in a person

  • Comprehensive safe dating tips section

  • Only members with photos get added to the database

  • ConnectMe allows members to text & call offline

Pros & Cons

  • Comprehensive safe dating tips section
  • Profiles must have photos
  • ConnectMe feature allows members to connect safely offline
  • Reporting a profile is very easy
  • Hide your profile
  • Website is sometimes buggy & slow

Plans & Pricing

Without a subscription plan, users have limited access to OurTime’s features and will not be able to communicate with other users. To unlock the site’s tools, subscribe to one of OurTime’s three subscription plans:

1 month

A one-month subscription costs £39.99.

3 months

Save 38% with a three-month subscription for £24.99 per month.

6 months

Save 50% with a six-month subscription for £19.99 per month.

6 months
£19.99/month
3 months
£24.99/month
1 month
£39.99/month

Overview

If you are above 50 and single, the dating scene can be a bit harsh on you. You don’t really fit in the clubs or on regular dating sites. If you’re looking for someone with whom you can enjoy a nice walk in the park or a scoop of ice cream, or even something more passionate, there is one place you can go: OurTime. This site has everything that golden singles are looking for. Whether you’re looking for someone of the opposite sex or the same sex, you will find partners of your own age group here.

Rating

  • "Price"
    8 /10
  • "Features"
    8 /10
  • "Ease of Use"
    7.5 /10
  • "Help and Support"
    7.5 /10

Ease of Use

Registration process

Keeping things simple, you’ll pass through 6 quick steps to register your profile. After you enter your email, password and create a username, you’ll answer some basic info about your sexual orientation, location, etc. Then it’s on to the fun stuff where you answer open-ended and multiple-choice questions to express your interests and hobbies to help find matches with similar interests.

Profile set-up

The majority of your profile is set up during the registration process. You’ll be prompted to create a personal bio, but you can skip that part and come back to it when you’re ready to create your profile. Write a bit about yourself, upload a photo, and you’re all set.

Notification settings

It’s easy to customize your notification settings! Go to ‘Account Settings’ and choose which notifications you’d like to receive.

Messaging

Members are not limited to just sending messages, they can also send “flirts”, use the site’s phone feature to call or text message, and even send digital gifts. In order to partake in messaging members, you’ll need to subscribe to a paid membership account.

Message support

In the messaging center, OurTime suggests conversation starters and questions you can ask to get the conversation flowing.

Daily matches

Members receive 10 matches per day, chosen for them based off of a personality matching algorithm. Like modern-day dating apps, you can approve or pass on which matches spark your interest.

Member search

You can browse the member database using simple filters like age and location, or you can quickly swipe through profiles, liking or disliking them along the way.

Special Features

Concentrated filtering

The website asks the user all about their body type, looks, interests as well as their ideal partners. As it keeps asking you for more details, it keeps filtering people and shows you the people you might be interested in.

Easy to use

It is very simple to use. The bot automatically creates an account and asks all the questions to assess your personality. As people over 50 might be less tech-savvy, this website is designed perfectly, keeping them in mind. It asks for everything from your habits and smoking preferences, to sports interests and your favourite movie genres.

Benefits

When you subscribe to their services, you get several benefits. When you get a subscription, you can:

  • Send unlimited messages
  • Discover people who like you
  • View complete profiles of other users
  • Have an ad-free experience
  • Install OurTime on other devices as well
  • Get special member pricing

Winks

You can show your interest in other users by sending winks or messages, or you can simply add them to your favourites. People can wink at you or you can wink at them. However, if someone winks at you, you cannot see who it was unless you’re a paid member. However, you can wink at others without paying.

Blender

The website allows you to search for the right match and tally your crushes using the Blender. If you like someone, you can message them and send text or GIF. The best feature of the website is that it has a number of users, which means you don’t have to lower your standards. Not interested in someone who doesn’t like football? No problem. There is a large volume of users and there are high chances you’ll find someone who does.

OurTime will come up with 100 profiles every day that suit your preferences. It will show all profiles one by one and you can simply click on yes or no to be connected. The suggestions will include a photo and basic details and you can decide if you have a crush on them. It will also show you the number of interests that are common to both of you. The people you click yes for on the Blender will be added to your favourites.

Activities

Want to take online relations out into real life? Here’s your chance. OurTime will list some activities that are going on in your area. Just visit those events and you can find the other singles near your location. OurTime holds painting classes, weekend getaways, and many other such activities. Some of them are free while others are paid. You can reserve your place in these events by letting them know on time.

Great search features

It also shows the members that are currently online. That way you can start a new conversation with the members that are presently available. The search feature of the website lets you select a number of filters to find out the right partner living near your location.

OurTime also has apps for mobile platforms but the website performs better on the desktop instead of mobile.

Site Safety

Mandatory photos

A member must upload a profile photo in order for their profile to show up in the member database.

Offline contact

With OurTime’s feature called “ConnectMe”, members can call and text each other offline while keeping their phone numbers and contact information private.

Report a profile

You can report users that display inappropriate conduct and the OurTime team will personally investigate.

Block other members

You can block members from contacting your and seeing your profile by editing your preferences in ‘my account’ under ‘blocked users’.

Hide your profile

Need a break but don’t want to completely delete your profile? You can hide your profile where it won’t be visible to others. During this time, you won’t have access to the site’s features.

Dating safety

Check out the ‘safe dating tips’ section to learn how to date responsibility on and offline.

Customer support

The typical response time from customer service is 48 hours.

While it’s very helpful that you can talk to a real human on the phone support line, the potential 48 hour wait time for email responses is a bit inconvenient. Since this is a site for people in their more mature years, it’s a shame that there are no video tutorials or blogs.

  • Phone Support
    Customer Service is available over the phone during business hours.
  • Email
    There is a built-in email-style customer contact form on the site.
  • FAQ
    There is an extensive FAQ section with a tab for every query you could ever have.

Final Word

OurTime is a hugely popular dating service for people over 50 years of age. It is user-friendly and feature-rich. And since it has a number of users, it becomes easy to find a match. A great thing about this service is that you can take your online relationship outside the digital world by meeting them at the events organised by OurTime. This senior dating site lets singles meet online, discover new crushes, and chat with each other. It keeps track of all your activity so you don’t ever lose a connection. The service is available on desktops as well on different mobile platforms. With all these features, it is certainly the best website for seniors and is rightly called the Match.com of mature dating.

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Dana Simmons
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Dana was determined to find that special someone. Years of being single made her reluctant to believe salvation would come from the online environment. Now a married woman and a mother of two, Dana’s an advocate of online dating sites and is passionate on writing about their success. Dana is a regular contributing writer to the Top 5 Dating Sites blog.

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Questions & Answers

Guest
Martin

Does OurTime offer an app?

Guest
Gina Ryan

I have never used a dating site before. Assuming that heart means a wink? Thought I could scroll through the photos and return to them pressing the x thinking* I could return later instead I appear to have inadvertently deleted them never to be seen again?

Admin
Top5 Team

A heart means that you like someones profile!

Guest
Colleeb Doggett

I sm a woman looking for women, but Ourtime is sending me matches with women looking for men. It is impossible to contact them.

answer
Hi Colleen,

Please try contacting OurTime via their ticketing form: https://www.ourtime.co.uk/faq/?display_ccform=1#!home.
Guest
GuyRobinson

Does the site have false members?

answer
OurTime does its best to prevent fake profiles from appearing on the site. If you suspect that a profile is not real, you can report it to OurTime from any profile page or messaging window.
Guest
Harry

How much does it cost to register with OurTime?

answer
You can register with OurTime for free, however, to get the most out of the site, you should then choose one of their premium membership plans.
Guest
Leslie

What are OurTime Activities?

answer
OurTime offers activities across the UK for people to casually meet each other. These include cultural events, music nights, trips, and more. The schedule is available on the OurTime website.
Guest
Carol Bale

I’ve been a widow for 7 years I’m a young 80 , I’ve never joined a dating site ,but would like to, but can afford to pay much money monthly ,

Admin
Top5 Team

First of all, we’re really sorry to hear about your loss, Carol. And there are all kinds of plans to fit your budget.

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