Dating Photo Quality Checker
Drop in a photo and this measures the technical things that quietly cost you matches: whether it is too dark, slightly out of focus, too low-resolution for a modern phone screen, or cropped in a shape dating apps will cut into.
Your photo never leaves your device. The measurements run in your browser and nothing is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.
This is only half the picture
A technically perfect photo can still get swiped past. The only way to know how people actually react is to ask them. WouldSwipe gets your photo rated by real people on attractiveness, trustworthiness and fun — and the data shows how many ratings a score needs before you can trust it.
Get real ratingsThe same photo, checked twice
Both versions below are the exact same picture. One was “shot” in bad conditions — underexposed and slightly shaken. The scores are what this checker actually reports for each file, not illustration numbers.
35 / 100
Too dark (brightness 41/255) · looks out of focus
93 / 100
Sharp · well exposed · good tonal range
Same face, same pose, same background — a 58-point difference purely from lighting and focus. That is the gap this tool exists to catch before anyone swipes on it.
What this checks, and what it cannot
Everything here is measurable. Brightness is the average light in the image, contrast is how far the tones spread, sharpness is measured by how sharply edges change from one pixel to the next, and resolution and aspect ratio are simply read from the file.
What it cannot measure is you. No tool can look at a face and tell you whether strangers will find it attractive, trustworthy or fun, and any tool that claims to is guessing. Those are human judgements and they vary by person. That is the part real ratings answer, and it is why a photo can pass every check here and still underperform.
Use this to rule out the boring, fixable problems first. A blurry or badly lit photo wastes a good one.
Common questions
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The check runs in your browser. The image is read into memory, measured, and discarded when you close the page. Nothing is sent to a server and nothing is stored. You can disconnect from the internet and it still works.
Can this tell me if I look attractive?
No, and no tool can. It measures technical quality only. How people actually react to a photo needs real human ratings.
What resolution should a dating profile photo be?
Aim for at least 1000 pixels on the shorter side. Dating apps re-compress whatever you upload, so starting small means the version other people see is worse than the one on your phone.
What is the best aspect ratio for a dating photo?
Portrait, roughly 4:5 or taller. Tinder, Hinge and Bumble all show photos in a tall frame, so a landscape photo gets centre-cropped and often loses part of your head.