hi5 Review February 2024

Signing up in hi5 is fairly quick and easy. When you sign up with a valid email. You are required to disclose some basic information such as your first and last name, birthday, ethnicity, gender, and zip code. Of course, you would also be asked for a valid email address and a nominated password. To make the registration process even quicker, you can use your Google or Facebook account to register. After a successful sign-up, you are given the option to import contacts from your email or Facebook friends to your hi5 friends list. You would also be asked to upload a profile photo. You can skip both those steps if you wish to.

Before you are able to fully access hi5, you will be redirected to an account verification page. You are required to verify your account and the email you used to sign up with by keying in the confirmation code found on the email.

In hi5, sending messages is free of charge—though most new members cannot send a message to some of the most popular users except if they are willing to pay for a premium membership. All user profiles show when the user was last active in the app. And when chatting is available, the status of that user switches to active. So if you had messaged an online user, you would know if you have been directly ignored.

Besides browsing profiles through the Pets game, hi5 also has a free member search tool with very basic filters of age, gender, and location. The member search is a page that features profile photos of active and recently active users with ‘Add Friend’ and ‘Message’ buttons below. Another way of meeting members through the hi5 app is through its Meet Me feature—which is a roulette-type matching game that notifies users when both users liked one another.

hi5 asks for very basic information. When you want to put some details to your profile’s About Me section, you have to go to your profile and fill the blanks there. Clicking the edit profile tab will just allow you to edit your basic information. In hi5, you can set your profile from public to private. Making your profile public means that all members can view your profile information and photos. Other users can also post on your comment wall.

Aside from the feed of your most recent uploads, your photos, and the basic information found on your profile—gender, age, relationship status, religion, orientation, ethnicity, and languages spoken, your profile can also feature the gifts, tags, and comments that were given to you by other other hi5 members. Most users like to put GIFs or photos so sometimes, profiles can become so long because of such public comments.