Dating profile photo checklist

Free, no upload, no account. Pick your app and work down the 44 requirements 11 dating apps actually publish, each one quoted and linked to the page it came from.

• 11 apps, sources read 5 August 2026
• Every rule quoted, never paraphrased
• Nothing uploaded, nothing stored

What this checklist will not do

Most free profile tools work the other way round. They take a photo, return a number, and the number is the product. That number has to come from somewhere, and in practice it comes from an opinion with a percentage sign after it. This tool does not have a validated way to score a face, so it does not pretend to have one.

What is left after those five refusals is small and it is true. Each app states what it wants from your photos, that statement is on a page anyone can open, and almost nobody reads it before uploading. Putting those statements in one place, dated and quoted, is the whole tool.

Published rule or somebody’s advice

Every line in the checklist is labelled one of two ways, and the labels are the point. A published line is a rule the app states, with the sentence quoted underneath it. A recommendation is this site's opinion, marked as such, and you are free to ignore it without breaking anything. Across the 11 apps there are 44 published requirements, and rather fewer recommendations than most photo guides would give you.

Where every rule came from

Every source below was read on 5 August 2026. Apps change their guidelines without announcing it, so the date matters as much as the quote, and the links go to the company's own pages rather than to commentary about them.

The apps that say no

Coffee Meets Bagel and Grindr both publish flat prohibitions on AI-generated profile images, in plain language, with consequences attached. Their rules are in the tool above, quoted and linked, and DatifyAI sells nothing for either of them. A checklist that dropped the inconvenient apps would be an advert with checkboxes on it.

The apps that publish nothing are a different case and get treated differently. Silence is not permission, and it is not a prohibition either. The tool says which one each app is, rather than resolving the ambiguity in whichever direction happens to suit. The permission guide works through every published rule that was found, and can dating apps detect AI photos answers the detection question just as plainly.

Filling the slots the checklist finds empty

A checklist is only worth anything if the gaps can be closed. Most of them come down to photos you do not have: a clearly lit face, a full-length shot, something that is not the same pose again. DatifyAI generates those from one selfie of your own face. One photo is 5 credits, the first 2 on a new account are free with no card, and the best rate on the site is $0.35 a photo.

Dating profile photo checklist questions

What is a dating profile photo checklist?

It is a list of the things a dating app requires of your photos, taken from what that app publishes rather than from advice. This one covers 11 apps and 44 published requirements between them, every one quoted from the company's own help centre or community guidelines and linked so you can read the original. Pick your app, work down the list, and what is left unticked is what stands between your current set and the published bar.

Does this tool score my photos?

No, and that is deliberate. Scoring a photo means publishing a quality judgement nobody has tested, dressed up as a measurement. There is no validated model here that maps a face, a background and a shirt onto a number, so producing one would be inventing a result. What can be stated honestly is what each app publishes, which is what this tool does instead.

Do I have to upload anything?

No. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and no account is needed. The checklist runs entirely in your browser and forgets everything the moment you close the tab, including which boxes you ticked. That last part is on purpose: a checklist that remembered a stale answer from a previous visit would be reporting a state you never confirmed.

Which dating apps are covered?

Hinge, Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Match.com, Badoo, Feeld, The League, plus Coffee Meets Bagel, Grindr, Raya. The last three have no DatifyAI landing page and are still in the tool, because two of them publish outright bans on AI-generated profile photos and the third publishes no photo guidance that could be found. Leaving out the apps that say no would make the checklist less useful and less honest at the same time.

How many photos does a dating profile need?

It depends on the app, and most of them do not say. Of the 11 apps here, 4 publish a photo number at all: Hinge 4 to 6, Match.com 3 to 6, Badoo 2 to 6, Grindr up to 5. The other 7 publish no number at either end, so any figure you see quoted for those is somebody's recommendation rather than a rule. The checklist labels the difference on every line.

Are AI-generated dating photos against the rules?

It varies by app and the checklist quotes each one. Coffee Meets Bagel and Grindr ban them outright. Hinge and Feeld tie the question to whether the image misleads, which is a rule about intent rather than about technology. The rest published nothing either way as of 5 August 2026, and silence is not permission. The permission guide sets out every rule that was found, app by app, with the sources attached.

How current are these rules?

Every source on this page was read on 5 August 2026, and that date is printed next to each app in the tool rather than buried in a footer. Dating apps change their guidelines without announcing it, so the date is the part that matters most. Every rule is linked to the page it came from, so checking whether it still says that takes one click.

What if my photos fail the checklist?

Most failures are one of three things: not enough photos, no photo where your face is clearly visible, or a set that is five versions of the same shot. The first two are the published rules and the third is the one people underestimate. DatifyAI generates the missing slots from one selfie of your own face, keeping your features rather than replacing them, which is what keeps the identity rules answerable. The first 2 photos on a new account are free with no card.

What does it cost to fix the gaps?

Nothing to use the checklist. If you need photos, one photo is 5 credits, the best rate on the site is $0.35 a photo, and the entry pack at $9.99 covers 20 photos. Every new account starts with 2 free photos and no card, every purchase is refundable in full within 14 days, and the Triple Match Guarantee returns the money if weekly matches have not at least tripled after 30 days.

More on what happens after the photos go up: how photo verification works, shadowbans, bans and appeals, and why the matches are not coming.