Joris
Product
Spent months convinced the apps were broken. Turned out his best photo was sitting in fourth place and his bio was a list of hobbies.
About us
We built this because
nobody would tell us the truth.
MatchGrade did not start as a business. It started as two guys on the same couch, on the same apps, getting the same nothing.
Straight answers, up front
- Uploading your profile costs nothing, and there is no account to make.
- You see part of the result before you decide whether to pay for the rest.
- The full report is a one-time payment. No subscription required.
- Your photos are private, deleted after 90 days, and never used to train a model.
How it started
The night we swapped phones
We are Joris and Sam. Friends for years, both single at the same time, both putting a genuinely embarrassing number of hours into swiping. Joris went about four months on one app without a single conversation that lasted past hello.
We blamed everything. The algorithm. The city. The apps for burying you unless you pay. It is a comfortable story, because every part of it is somebody else's fault.
Then one evening Sam handed his phone over and said: just tell me what is actually wrong with it. Not the nice version.
The nice version had been going around for months. Everyone had seen those photos. Everyone had said they were good. Nobody had said that the first one was cropped out of a wedding photo, that the third was a group shot where you could not tell which one he was, or that the bio was a list of hobbies ending in “just ask.”
So we did it properly. We went through each other's profiles photo by photo and said the blunt thing out loud. It was not a fun hour. We cut photos we both liked. We rewrote both bios from scratch.
Things changed after that. Same two guys, same faces, same lives, better profiles. Nothing magic happened. We had just stopped guessing.
Our profiles were the problem. Everybody could see it except us.
That is the part that stuck with us. The information was not hidden. It was obvious to anyone who looked. It just never reaches you, because the people who love you are too kind to say it and everyone else swipes past without a word.
MatchGrade is that hour, minus the awkwardness. The same honest read on your photos and your bio, done consistently, scored, and explained. No friendship on the line, and no need to know somebody willing to be that blunt with you.
Who we are
Two people, one small product
There is no growth team and no office. There are two of us, and we both read the support inbox.
Sam
Engineering
The one who said it out loud first. Builds the thing that now says it for us, so nobody has to risk a friendship over a group photo.
What we believe
The rules we hold ourselves to
Blunt beats polite
Your friends will tell you your profile is fine. That is what friends do. We would rather tell you the truth in a way you can act on this afternoon.
Specific beats generic
“Smile more” helps nobody. “Photo three is a group shot and you're not obviously in it” gives you something to delete. Every score comes with a reason.
Your photos stay yours
They live in a private bucket, they are never publicly listed, they are deleted automatically after 90 days, and they are never used to train an AI model.
You see something before you pay
Uploading costs nothing and needs no account. We show you where the profile is weakest first, and you only pay if you want the full breakdown. Once, not monthly.
The full detail on photos and data lives in our privacy policy.
Being straight with you
What MatchGrade is not
We would rather you know this before you pay us anything.
- We are not a coach. We will not message your matches for you or run your dating life.
- We do not promise you a relationship. Nobody honest can.
- We cannot make you taller, richer or funnier. We can tell you which six photos of you land best.
- A score is an informed read on how your profile comes across, not a verdict on you.
Anything else you want to ask, the FAQ covers most of it, and support@matchgrade.app reaches one of us directly.
Find out what we would have told you.
Upload your photos and bio and get the honest read. No account, nothing to pay to start, about two minutes.
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