Check your dating profile bio

Paste the text. It scores four things that decide whether anyone writes to you, names every stock phrase it finds, and tells you what to put there instead.

Free, no account, no limit. Runs entirely in your browser, so your bio is never sent anywhere.

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The one change worth making first

A bio gets you opened. What you write after that is the part that decides anything.

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What the four scores mean

ScoreWhat it measuresWhy it decides anything
SpecificNamed things: places, titles, numbers, the actual noun rather than the categoryA detail is the only thing a stranger can grip. "Hiking" is a category; "the Wind Rivers in September" is a handle
AnswerableWhether there is an opening in the text: a question, an invitation, or a claim worth arguing withMost people want to write to you and cannot think of anything. A bio with a way in does that work for them
FreshHow much of it is phrasing that appears on thousands of other profilesA line that would be equally true about the next forty profiles is costing you space and returning nothing
ShapeLength, sentence breaks, and whether it is a wallIt is read in about three seconds on a phone, in portrait, one-handed. Shape is most of whether it gets read

Generic line, and what to write instead

What people writeWhat does the job
Love to travelThree weeks in Oaxaca taught me I am a confident person who cannot order breakfast
FoodieI will drive forty minutes for a good bagel and I have a shortlist
Fluent in sarcasmI lose arguments about films I have not seen
Looking for someone who makes me laughTell me the worst film you genuinely love. I will not judge, I will rank it
Work hard, play hardI build bridges, badly, in a simulator, and then watch them fall down
Ask me anythingAsk me about the time I got banned from a quiz night
Dog dadMy dog is a nine-year-old beagle who is afraid of the bin
I like being outdoorsSaturday is a long walk and a bad pub lunch, and I will defend both

Every right-hand example here is invented for illustration. The point is the shape of the sentence, not the content: one named thing, one admission, and something a stranger can reply to without thinking hard.

The three-second test

Read your bio and ask what somebody could write to you using only what is in it. If the honest answer is "hey, how's your week going", the bio did not do its job, regardless of how well written it is. A bio is not a description of you. It is a set of handles.

This is also why the scoring weights Specific and Answerable most heavily. A charming bio with no handles produces polite nothing. A plain bio with two handles produces conversations, and conversations are the only thing any of this is for.

The rest of the profile

The bio is one of three things, and it is not the first one anyone sees:

And once the profile is working, the problem moves: first messages, then keeping it going.

Questions

Is my bio uploaded anywhere?

No. The scoring is JavaScript running on your device. There is no request, no logging, no cookie and no storage, and the page works with your connection turned off.

How long should a bio be?

Fifteen to sixty words scores best here, and the reason is mechanical rather than aesthetic: under fifteen words there is usually nothing concrete in it, and over about a hundred it stops being read before the good part. The number is not the point. One specific thing plus one way in is, and that normally lands in that range on its own.

Why does it penalise phrases that are true about me?

Because a stock phrase is true about almost everyone, which is what makes it useless rather than untrue. If a sentence would be just as true about the next forty profiles, it is taking up space without telling anyone anything. Swap it for the version only you could have written.

Does a better bio matter more than better photos?

No, and this page will not pretend otherwise. Photos are looked at first and decide whether the text is read at all. The bio decides what happens next, which is the part people actually get stuck on, and it is also the part you can rewrite in five minutes at no cost.