Soulmates Review February 2024

Soulmates offers the unique option of browsing through the profiles even without your account. This serves as a preview and an invitation if you like the accounts that you're seeing.

Registration is speedy and direct to the point—only account details are needed. When you sign up, only eight personal information are requested: if you're a woman looking for a man (and all its other variations), your preferred age group, your date of birth, preferred email address, username, nominated password, country, and postcode.

At this point, your account will only be 20% complete, but you can start using the site as a standard user. You can add and modify your profile details later. However, a reminder will keep popping up on top of the page to remind you to complete your profile. This isn't mandatory, but you'd have better chances of meeting someone if you work on your profile.

The site is also LGBT-inclusive as it allows options for men looking for men and women looking for women.

Unfortunately, only paying members can send, receive, and read their messages. Standard members can only send a "like" to someone to show their interest, and take the risk of paying the monthly fee to talk to that person.

Liking is the only affirmative action that's free on Soulmates. The other two options are blocking and reporting, so unless you're reporting someone for suspicious/inappropriate behavior, there's not much to be done here.

What Soulmates lacks in messaging, they make up for in the search feature. You can modify and save your search criteria as much as you want. Apart from this, you have your matches, which is a carefully chosen list of potential partners. There are less than 20 matches presented to you at any given time.

Additionally, you can view, "Recently joined Soulmates." There's a tab that lets you see people based on categories: you like, like you, are online, viewed your profile, you've hidden, and you've blocked. When you go to someone's profile, there's a line that states whether you've contacted the other person before or if you've never crossed paths.

Registration is quite strict for some countries, but email verification is not required. If there are any fake profiles on the site, the dating site makes sure to catch and suspend them even before it can do as much as send a "like" to another user. Soulmates is very honest about the number of members registering, even if it's as low as a hundred per month.

At Soulmates, photo, name, age, and location are the essential details of a profile. If you are regular use, you'd probably be delighted to know that the profile photos are available to be viewed for free. The profile will also show when the user was last online, and if you've ever contacted each other before.

The user profile contains the basics: physical appearance, relationship status, with or without children, looking for, etc. Two text boxes let you describe yourself "in your own words," and define "who you're looking for."

On the user profile itself, you can like, hide, block, see additional photos, or send someone messages (the last two requiring a subscription). There will be a number that states how many other pictures that person has. You don't need their permission to see these photos per se; as a paying member, you can view everyone's other images.

There's also a tab titled "At a glance," and it is a summary of your compatibility with that user. It states whether you match their preferred height, education, opinion on vices, location, parental status and plans, age, and more.

Browsing through the profiles is allowed even if you don't create an account just yet. You can create a profile on the website for free, add photos and information, and search for other profiles.

Once you pay for a subscription, you are given full access to the photo galleries of Soulmates users, and you have additional options when you conduct searches.

Only paying members can use Soulmates' messaging service in full. They also have access to the Advanced Search function and are entitled to receive a weekly list of the Top 10 matches based on their profiles and preference. 

Payment is made through either a credit or debit card, which will be processed by Soulmates' secure payment provider. So paying members continue to enjoy the dating site's services, subscriptions are automatically renewed.

You can cancel your subscription anytime, unlike other dating websites that require a certain number of days as notice. This can be done automatically on your Account page.