Online dating has its advantages: it makes approaching someone you’re interested in far less scary, especially if you’re shy. You can customize your profile to ensure that you never make a bad first impression. Your prospective crushes aren’t restricted to the handful of people you see every day at school, so you have a lot more alternatives.

However, most dating apps have rather severe age limitations, making it difficult to locate one that is specifically designed for teenagers. However, for those under the age of 21, there are a few decent options with better safety features and less of a sketchy hookup culture.

Of course, this does not imply that these apps are completely risk-free. You should still take standard online safety precautions, such as never giving out your home address, checking for synced social network identities to ensure you’re not being catfished, and meeting up somewhere very public if you chose to do so.

With that stated, here are a few teen-friendly options if you’re ready to try online dating.

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Coffee Meets Bagel

This is the app to use if you’re seeking for a relationship. Every day, the app will compile a list of matches it believes you’ll enjoy, so you won’t have to waste time swiping. Are you stumped as to what to say once you’ve found a match? To get the conversation started, the app will offer icebreakers.

Happn

Happn mixes the thrill of meeting someone in person with the convenience of a dating app. It will appear on your timeline every time you cross paths with another app user (literally). You can access a user’s profile if you’re within 1 to 850 feet of them, and vice versa. This means you’ll know whether someone else at school, at the gym, or anywhere else you hang out is using the app.

Skout

Skout’s “shake to chat” feature, which allows you to shake your phone and be randomly placed in a chat with someone nearby, is essentially the online dating app equivalent of meeting your soulmate at a coffee shop, rom-com style. You can navigate through profile photos and tap one to start a chat or leave a comment if you don’t want to leave it to chance.

Taffy

One of the worst things about dating apps is that you have to make hasty decisions based on someone’s profile photo, which means you can end up rejecting your soulmate just because they’re not your typical type. The interesting thing about Taffy is that everyone’s profile is blurry at first, but as you interact with someone, their photo grows clearer — so by the time you know what they truly look like, you already have a pretty decent sense of their personality.

Yubo

Yubo, originally known as Yellow, is a mix of Tinder and Snapchat in that you can swipe right on profiles that look interesting and interact in real time. The app has also incorporated a number of security features, such as mobile phone authentication, to prevent bogus profiles from clogging the site – although creepers can also own cell phones, so be cautious.

Bumble Date

This is yet another right-swiping app, but this one has a twist: Bumble has a “women make the first move” rule, which means you must contact someone within 24 hours or the match will expire. (In same-sex relationships, either partner can initiate contact.) This reduces the number of unwanted D-pics and eggplant emoticons, which is always a plus.