Dating photo audit
Your first photo
is the problem
Same man. Same room. Same shirt, same phone, same afternoon. The only thing that changed is which way he was facing relative to the window. Drag the handle above — that is the entire fix.
Most bad dating photos aren't bad because of the person in them. They're bad because of five or six mechanical decisions nobody told you about. Those are measurable, and they're all fixable in an afternoon.
Free · no signup · nothing uploaded
Audit a dating photo
Nine measurements on framing, lighting, eye contact and sharpness. Runs on your phone — the photo never leaves it.
How this works
The analysis runs inside your own browser using an on-device face model. Your photo is never uploaded, never stored, and never sent to a server — ours or anyone else's. You can turn off your wifi after the page loads and it still works.
What it measures
Nine measurements of the photograph. None of them are judgements about your face.
Who's in it
Whether there's exactly one face, so a stranger knows which person is you.
Face size
How much of the frame your face fills. On a phone card, too far away means invisible.
Lighting direction
Whether the light is on your face or behind it. This is the big one.
Eye contact
Head angle plus whether your eyes are actually visible and open.
Expression
Smile intensity, measured from the mouth landmarks.
Sharpness
High-frequency detail, so you know how it will survive the app's compression.
Exposure
Whether the frame is too dark or blown out.
Camera angle
Tilt, and whether you shot from below your own eye line.
Resolution
Whether you're giving the app enough pixels to work with.
Before & after
Twelve mistakes, fixed
Every pair below is the same person, photographed the same day. Only the mechanics change.
Someone with something to hide
Which one are you?
A holiday photo with a person in it
Taken alone, in a hurry
Common questions
- Is the dating photo audit actually free?
- Yes. There's no signup, no email, no credit card and no usage limit. The analysis runs in your browser, so it costs nothing to run and nothing to give away.
- Do you store or see my photo?
- No. The face model runs on your own device. Your photo is never uploaded to a server, never stored, and never transmitted anywhere. Once you close the tab it's gone.
- Does it rate how attractive I am?
- No, and deliberately so. It measures the photograph — framing, lighting, focus, eye contact, crop. Those are the things you can change. It makes no judgement about your face.
- Which photo should I test?
- Start with the one you use first on your profile. That photo does most of the work, and it's where a mechanical fault costs you the most.
- Does it work on Tinder, Hinge and Bumble photos?
- Yes. The measurements are the same across every app, though each crops differently — Tinder shows a tall card, Hinge a square, Bumble something in between.
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