Jdate Reviews

I’ve reached out to support 7 times and unsubscribed each time - they will not delete your data - This company is breaking privacy laws. It’s January 2025 today. In 2001 I created a this app account. I deleted my data and account several times. Most recently last week. I’ve not been dating over 4 years, and off this platform since 2003. I hear from friends and family here and there that my photos are being used and that I’m marked as “active” on this site. Again, last week I started getting emails from this app about dating tips. I responded again stating I’ve deleted my account and data. They’ve emailed me back a long list of personal data requests to confirm my identity to remove me from the platform. I’m married. I warn everyone not to share their data with this app - This is a dangerous platform to share data. Don’t risk your photos - you’ll be “active” and online as long as they keep using your photos - for me it’s over 20 years and they’re still doing it. Attention 20 year old girls - I’m in my 40’s and I’m not online - I’m married - but this app will show you I’m online and “active” despite the fact I’ve deleted my profile and they’ve confirmed they removed my data. FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD

I did not even finish creating an account. It said the photo was under review. I deleted my photo and logged out. Shortly after I received an email saying I have matches with photos of matches! I contacted the company and asked them to check and please delete my profile and account. Instead of simply doing so or at least confirming if my photo is up circulating on their platform or not - I received a somewhat aggressive email from Karol K. saying they have a right to use my personal information! She was going out of her way to sound like an attorney - which only shows how they treat their users. This is unethical to say the least. All she needed to do was to simply make sure my account is deleted. Instead, she unnecessarily made it complicated and is trying to play hard ball with their own user for no reason but to stroke her own ego. Stay far away from Jdate and these unethical people. She clearly thinks Copyright Infringement doesn’t apply to this app. No app can use copyrighted photos without consent. If she had bothered to simply delete my account, as she should have, she would have saved this app this 1* review due to her so called customer service.

What used to be a great site has turned trash. Their interface is outdated and junk.
They will match you with people who haven’t logged on in 2 years. When you search for “last to log in”, they’ll have members that are 3 years old mixed with current members all in one search. Then you need to click on every single profile and scroll to the bottom just to see if they’re actually active. Who has that time.
Not to mention the actual number of active people are incredibly low. Then to make it worse, you have to pay to even see more than one picture. This is the worst app/website I’ve ever used.
Save your money. Go another route.

After registering, I was locked out of my account. Customer support asked for my IP address to fix the issue and never got back to me after weeks. Simply impossible to use.

I'm not sure I'd even want to use Jdate , though. From my brief usage of Jdate , and from what I hear from other user, it seems that Jdate doesn't even have a promising selection of users, at least no more promising than Jswipe—the freemium version of this app run by the same company—and with a paywall to use Jdate at all. So even if Jdate is usable, it's low-quality.

Higher-quality Jews can be found on higher-quality platforms. Spark Networks does not have a monopoly on single Jews. this app and Jswipe should rise to the challenge and get better.

Constant crashes and freezes that require me to fully close Jdate and reopen it for it to crash/ freeze shortly after.
As a free user you have next to no way to “like” people as you get locked out and requiring you to pay to like more people. And that is with me being super picky with whom I am liking and keeping the likes I give out to a bare minimum. And even if you are willing to spend you hard earned money- it is one of the most expensive dating apps and you get little in return compared to other apps.

The real icing on the cake was that I got “matched” with someone and it turns out that “person” was a this app admin bot telling me that I should upgrade my account because I am missing out on so many matches.

Jdate is a smoking pile of hot garbage. The Look Book feature show profiles that I’ve decline a least a dozen times each and doesn’t update with new ones. There is no way to swipe left and get rid of people you have no desire to see again, let alone people whose last time on the site was seven months ago. There is no way to exclude people who want kids (I’m 56 and have no desire to start over) or people who are modern- or full-blown orthodox, which is a nonstarter for me. No way to weed out Trumpers. It will often add people without notifying you new people have been added. There is literally *nothing* redeeming about Jdate whatsoever. They need to take some major lessons from Bumble and OKCupid. I seriously have never hated any app more than this app’s.

I had a good experience with this app 4 years ago. This time is totally different. I put certain age as a cut off for my search and get all matches from the any age but not the one I defined. When open section “online” that should show who is online now, it shows people who were online last time 3-6 months ago. The search brings you people that where last online 2-3 years ago. Many fake accounts (bot?) send you a flirt.
I tried to open ticket via their system but it shows every time that the message failed to go through. I tried to communicate via chat but there was only bot that says that nobody is online. I wish I would reading reviews and knew all this before I paid my subscription and would not waste money on it.

this app is by far the worst Jewish dating app out there. They charge you $60 per month, it takes them nearly a week to approve your pictures and profile bio. My bio was rejected without any explanation after an entire week. This is really limiting because people cannot read about you or know what you are about. In the meantime, while you sit on your hands and wait endlessly for them to “approve” your profile, one week out of the four weeks has already elapsed without proper exposure i.e. bio and pics. The customer service is atrocious. They tell you in the email “if you want to know while your bio was rejected, click on this link“ after you click on the link it simply takes you to your bio to edit, of course, without any explanation after the rejection.

First of all this app isn’t nearly as good as it was years ago after format changes. Messaging features and recent photos posted are gone from previous versions. Profiles shown as on line, actually were on line. Now the new member page pics are the same as the on line pics and there are few, if any changes.
In the last few months, Jdate for iOS is worthless as it doesn’t work properly on my iPad or iphone. The browse feature only displays a handful of pics, both new and online pages, regardless of the distance. The messages previously sent have no profile pic or profile info available to view. The profile pages show up blank. If a profile did display, by touching my screen all goes black and I must restart Jdate with the same results again. My request for help was totally unsatisfactory. This needs major improvement.

This is terrible. There are SO many non paying members on the site (as well as fake “members”). As a paying member, if I email somebody, like somebody, etc. I have no way of knowing if the person on the receiving end even received my email-whether they choose to respond or not. It is a complete waste of time to be a paying member because if you send 10 emails, 9 of the people won’t even be members and they have no way of receiving an email. And if I’m paying I should at least know if my emails are going into a black hole or are actually being seen.

Customer service is worthless in this regard. When you email them you get robotic canned responses that tell you absolutely nothing.

One would be better of taking the subscription fee, dressing up nice and going out and meeting somebody in person. At least they know you are speaking to them.

I assumed getting a subscription would give me access to a fully capable app. It is complete garbage.

It is finicky in every sense of the word.

Keep in mind, you cannot read messages if you are not a paid subscriber.

The goal of this company, and the thieves that work there, is to make tons of money. A simple example, paid subscribers cannot distinguish if other profiles have subscriptions so you are effectively messaging non-paid users who cannot read messages. This is intentional. The intention is to entice non-paid users to pay for a subscription in order to read the message, all the while using paid subscribers as a tool instead of helping paid customers.

Considering paid subscribers cannot distinguish between profiles that can or cannot read messages, the paid subscribers are left to search through thousands of profiles. However, the search feature of Jdate is useless. Filters don’t actually filter which leaves thousands of random profiles displayed and zero similar interests.

This is all intentional with this app. It is astonishingly unethical. The more time it takes to meet people the more likely people will be forced to pay.

It is an absolute joke. Don’t waste your time or money with Jdate.

I suppose I can understand a paid subscription if you are serious about looking for marriage but, as Jdate is also advertised as a way to find friends, it boggles my mind that anyone would think such an exorbitant subscription model is reasonable. Why on earth would I pay MINIMUM thirty dollars a month to find a friend or a casual date? This is 2021, who has that kind of free money laying around to spend on a dating app?

In addition, there’s a silly feature that doesn’t allow you to search for matches anywhere other than your original location. What’s so nefarious about potentially finding The One when I’m visiting friends and family in my hometown?? And what if I move to a new location? Instead of giving a real answer Jdate just glibly says “sorry jetsetter.”

Considering you can’t even send a message without coughing up some dough, the free version of Jdate is completely useless.

This review is both for Jdate and the site in general. Jdate has a very outdated, unfriendly design and I will not be renewing my paid subscription. You cannot filter out people who no longer check the site, so you’ll get search results and recommendations of people who were last online a year ago. Jdate won’t notify you when a new message has come in, so you have to check periodically, manually. Every day or so you’ll get flirts from fake accounts. Bots I assume. The site itself is poorly designed and many profiles contain no intros/descriptions. I would’ve given Jdate 2-3 stars, but a day back it stopped loading. I reinstalled Jdate multiple times but it still froze at splash screen. It’s nice that the company has a community manager to address bad reviews. Unfortunately it’s unclear if there is still a development team working on Jdate. Sparks Network needs to get a move on it before the Jewish dating market moves to other sites/apps for good.

Beware of giving them your credit card information. They charged me $500, almost 2 years after using this app, and because I missed one of the charges, as I have autism and don’t manage my bank account well, they fought to keep some of the money because it was over 2 months ago. Beware. Jdate is 100% a scam. There are other dating apps for Jews that are free unless you want to use a travel pass for a new area. Jdate is fraudulent and has harassed my bank account for years and years.
Not just that, but I haven’t been able to log in for over a year and don’t have an account to be charged for… yet at the SAME TIME, I saw my photos on another account from 6 years ago… I tried to contact them about my old photos from 6 years ago and they said it’s their right to keep any information that was uploaded to their system. Now when you try to log in, you get bombarded with security questions, that are unreasonable.

They let you make a profile (WHICH TAKES LIKE A WEEK+ FOR THEM TO VERIFY LOL) then once you’re verified you make a profile on an app that looks and feels like it was made in 2009. Once that’s done you quickly realize you can’t do anything on Jdate unless you pay $60 A MONTH?!?!?! Wow what a scam! Not to mention there’s about 10 people it shows in my area and half of them are fake profiles (I live in a big city other apps have thousands of real people) after months of not using Jdate and forgetting about it I finally got a message and match from someone but you have to pay $60 to view their pictures, message, etc… all basic things you’d be able to do from any other free dating app. I laughed at this and quickly deleted my profile. Don’t waste your time with Jdate and go download something that’s not a scam! All of these positive reviews on Jdate Store have to be bought there’s no way thousands of people gave this 5 stars after paying $60 to message someone LOL

This site needs work. It should not strive to be like the swiping apps- people who pay for this app want something more substantial. I suggest reverting back closer to the older interface and visuals. I think singles are craving something much more than what the apps provide and this app is not satisfying that need. The first page that appears is confusing and has too many options. My very smart friends (with PhDs, JDs, etc) all complain that they barely know how to use the site. THIS NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED- the Jewish dating world needs this app to function optimally! Ultimately- I think this app needs to stop trying to look like Happn or the other swiping apps and go back to substantive profiles. It should differentiate itself because the apps barely work and a stronger this app could propose a viable alternative- I also think this change will motivate people to pay for this site since the apps are not satisfying people’s needs for relationships. People would be willing to pay for this, since the apps yield flimsy results. I highly recommend considering reverting back closer to the old model.

Jdate is very glitchy and does not function properly. It crashes often and messaging is terrible. You cannot use punctation on it. It has a hard time loading. I would recommend J Swipe and Hinge (the filters work really well on Hinge. I filtered for Jews and it only showed me Jews, making it a very well-designed, functional Jewish dating app a million times better than this app and superior to all the other dating apps.).

Do not waste your time or money on this app. Hinge is a way better app to date Jewish people than all the rest, honestly. Just use the filters. J Swipe is okay. Just do not make the mistake I made when I paid for this app and threw money down the drain.

I’ve used this app off and on for a number of years; but, seeing how it’s competitors run their apps, there doesn’t seem to be a desire to improve the experience to match what others are doing.

For almost a month, I’ve been trying to change my password; I’ve been logging in thru Facebook which I normally don’t use and is very cumbersome. Haven’t received my first reset link from this app. I just terminated this app; in the process, I wanted to hide my profile since I won’t be checking messages. this app’s response: technical can’t do. Yikes!!!

I might be more apt to use this app if it performed anywhere like Match or MillionaireMatch. Unfortunately, this app has a way to go, and has had a way to go for a number of years. I’m sorry.

Since the major overhaul, I’m unable to access Jdate . I’ve deleted and reinstalled. I’ve changed password. I get message that I can’t connect to the server. Maybe it’s a blessing, since I’ve never had luck on this site. Must be paying member to see any messsges (explains why I feel ghosted) and there are rarely new members. The matchmaker service is a ploy to increase revenue on our wallets.

A year ago, I called in to ask, “What about Israel?”
There is a disconnect between declaring the mile radius, and city of the user’s origin, and that we are all Jewish, and through identity alone, migrate to and from Israel. I was told that there is a whole ‘nother this app app, for looking for a partner in Israel. While my spoken Hebrew, is communicative, I wasn’t sure, that my Hebrew reading skills, would give me a real take on the members’ profiles, on the Israel version.

The first day of opening Jdate , with the initial 200 mile radius, even so, there appeared several members from Israel. While there, on a vacation, I actually went out two evenings with one. Over the entire month in Israel, it was not possible to adjust the parameters correctly, to meet any mmembers there at all, probably due to lack of translation services. On returning home, no other Israeli members have ever appeared.

The Authors, should allow for at least two, geographic regions, if not more, because we, as a people, are disbursed over this globe, not always by choice. Hebrew profiles, should be translated, noting that they were. This stage needs a good quality translation, to help establish interest. The back and forth communication, can be handled by the translator apps out there. AR