Dating Profile Review

The question a profile has to answer is not “is this good writing”. It is what a stranger receives from it — somebody who has never met you, reading for about four seconds. That is usually a long way from what you meant, and the gap is measurable rather than a matter of taste.

Claims versus specifics. Most of a weak profile is unfalsifiable claims: adjectives about yourself that nobody could check and everybody writes. The read separates those from checkable specifics — a place, an hour, a thing you actually did — and gives you the ratio. A high claim ratio is the single most common reason a profile reads as interchangeable.

Generic lines. Every line is checked against the ones that would sit unchanged on anybody else's profile. A generic line is not a bad sentence; it is a sentence that does no work, because it does not distinguish you from the several hundred other profiles that someone saw this week.

What a reader could ask about. A profile's real job is to give a reader somewhere to start. The read names the specific things in your text that a stranger could actually open a conversation from — and says so plainly when there are none.

Openers, sourced. On the other lane you paste text from someone else's profile and get openers back. Each one is sourced to a line of the profile it came from, so you can tell a real reference from a canned line that would have gone to anyone. Nothing is invented about a person you have not met: the app treats their pasted words as text to respond to and guesses at nothing they did not write.

The scan that reports all of this runs in your browser before anything is sent or charged. A run costs credits; reading what you pasted does not.

Dating Profile Review is a writing coach. It is adults only, it will not write sexual content, it will not help you get round somebody's no, and it will not help you invent a version of yourself. Those limits are checked in your browser before anything is sent or charged, so a request outside them costs nothing.

Four routes — crisis, safety, care and boundary — and nineteen recognised situations sit behind that sentence. They cover an age under eighteen on either side, sexual content, a tactic offered in place of a sentence, getting round somebody's answer, inventing rather than presenting, treating a real person as a subject to research, somebody else holding the permission, being unsafe with somebody, and somebody who will not stop.

Several of those routes are not about the writing at all. If what you paste suggests you are in trouble rather than short of a good opener, the app stops being a writing coach and says so, with a route to real support — and that path never requires a run, a sign-in or a credit. It is not behind this toggle, or any toggle: it appears in the page itself, at the moment it is relevant.

What is kept. The other person's profile is never stored — their words are not yours to keep, and the app has nowhere to put them. Your own runs are saved only when you tick the box, which resets every time you load the page.